Glory Mission failure 04 March 2011

The Taurus Rocket successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California on Friday 04 March 2011 all was all was going to plan with the rocket powering through its first stage procedure until about three minutes into flight plan when during the second stage burn there was a contingency with the fairing (the protective shell atop the Taurus XL rocket which protects the Glory satellite) with initial telemetry readings indicating that the fairing did not have a successful separation. The Spacecraft with the added weight became too heavy and had insufficient velocity with the fairing still attached to reach its 700Km/435 mile orbit.

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[poorcitizen]

And did you really call rockets new technology.

[poorcitizen]

they were also only stating the amount of glory not the other 3 small sat's built by colleges

[poorcitizen]

@AndrewFinch1 eat another nasa dick andy

[lavalizard3]

@poorcitizen Accidents happen. That's part of pioneering new technologies.

Shooting equipment into space costs a ton of money and always runs the risk of blowing up, but without going for it we wouldn't have weather satellites, cell phones, space telescopes, or anything else that involves giant rockets and bajillions of tax dollars. Like us, scientists have to just do their best to avoid disasters and pray that it doesn't fuck up. But sometimes it does and there's nothing you can do about it

[JenniferLoni]

Yaaaay watching millions just go up in smoke....

[AndrewFinch1]

@poorcitizen What's your problem? Your welfare check not big enough? Lazy asshole.

[xrenube]

wtf? first Russian GLONASS, now this... the star wars continues?

[poorcitizen]

This is complete bull shit, the same exact thing happened 2 years ago with the same rockets!!!. N.A.S.A. can eat a dick. Cant trust these Nazi rocketeers. Do you ever wonder why our government spending is out of control. over 400 million bucks right there, and thats an under quote I guarantee it.