NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission Fails

jw3 writes "The NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory scheduled for launch today has failed its mission: the payload fairing failed to separate and the launch managers declared a contingency. George Diller, NASA launch commentator, said, 'It either did not separate or did not separate in the way that it should, but at any rate we're still trying to evaluate exactly what the status of the spacecraft is at this point.'" Update: 02/24 14:17 GMT by T : Reader fadethepolice points out a Reuters report which says that the craft crashed into the ocean just short of Antarctica.

Comments

Re:Evaluating the status? Cui bono?

[waterbear]

Without a full investigation, I'd hypothesize tha the status is "laying in many pieces on the ice somewhere in Antarctica."

I don't know what an investigation might find: or maybe, that some of the oil interests are sleeping easier at nights?

Re:Whick rocket?

[Dishevel]

The sure way for a Greeny to reduce CO2 emissions is to commit suicide.

Re:well we're f*****d

[MikeBabcock]

Maybe you're a left-winger suffering from math problems. Look up the percentage of CO2 that's actually human-caused in the environment then go home and weep because there's nothing we can reasonably do about it.

PS Greenland used to be warm with arable farmland. When we get back to that point, you can start whining if it gets even warmer.