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.

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Re:Evaluating the status?

[Lumpy]

FORD:

Fix
Or
Repair
Daily

But then Everything made by GM and Chrysler is that way as well lately.

Ironic

[WCMI92]

As one who does not buy into the "man made" global warming hoax I note that the attempted launch had a "carbon footprint" bigger than the Goreacle's.

When those who keep preaching the global warming hysteria start ACTING like it's a real crisis (by giving up their limos, huge houses, and private jets, which generate more pollution in a year than I will in my lifetime) then I'll start taking them seriously.

It's a shame about the satellite though, if it'd taken an honest assessment it would have proven that nature generates far FAR more C02 than does human activity.