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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Global Warming Alert: Global Warming Satellite burns up over Antarctica

2009-02-24

Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- A satellite launched from California failed to reach orbit today, crashing into the sea near Antarctica and dooming a $273 million mission to study global-warming gases.

"The mission is lost," National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman Steve Cole said in a telephone interview from the launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

The NASA satellite was to orbit 438 miles (705 kilometers) above Earth and observe how carbon dioxide enters and leaves the atmosphere, helping scientists predict future increases in the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming. Instead, the satellite fell in the ocean near Antarctica though the mission manager said at no point did the craft pass over land.

Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#13 ALa STARS-N-STRIPES, I've seen the pic of COMET LULIN's PURPLISH HAZE [Hendrix], which reminded me of a similar-colored sky burst o'er Guam's night skies recently. NOW I WANNA SEE THE IMAGE OF A PLANET WHICH SUDDENLY APEARED THEN
"DISAPPEARED".

D *** NGED POWER DRINKS!

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-02-24 19:33

#12 Film of the incident. Beware of the dreaded Clamshells. It was SPECTRE.

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-02-24 18:16

#11 Launch Vehicle?

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-02-24 17:59

#10 ION GUAM K57 RADIO NEWS > DID YA FEEL IT? 6.1 EARTHQUAKE OCCURS NORTHEAST OF GUAM.

Oh yeah.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-02-24 17:52

#9 COMET LULIN's view from GUam was rather poor - however, there were several FIREBALLS over GUAM-WESTPAC REGION which may or may not had been due to the recent US-RUSSIAN SATELLITE COLLISION = DEBRIS FIELD, as various Space XPerts had proclaimed that Earth will be entering a virtual "shooting gallery" corridor of space rocks in 2009.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-02-24 17:34

#8 The launch rocket was apparently, no shit, a "Taurus XL".

This is what we get for using discontinued Ford sedans to make our orbital insertions.

I know someone who's a subcontractor in the satellite business who says he's glad that his outfit decided to *not* use these clowns to send up their latest package. He was muttering about using the French or Brazilians.

Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-02-24 17:33

#7 too heavy.

sorry, my keyboard is broken.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-02-24 17:25

#6 You misunderstand. it's not that the satellite was too heavy, it was the satellite AND the aeroshell that was supposed to be jetisoned halfway up that was to heavy.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-02-24 17:24

#5 While launch and separation of the rocket's first stage went as planned, a clamshell-shaped "fairing" covering the satellite failed to open, meaning it was too heavy to reach orbit, Brunschwyler said on NASA's online television station.

Couldn't figure that out before you sent it up?Some "rocket scientist" you are...

Posted by: tu3031 2009-02-24 16:58

#4 The satellite might have found out Global Warming wasn't caused by greenhouse gas so Gore and his fanatics had it shot down. To cover their tracks they hired SPECTRE.

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-02-24 15:44

#3 Good job, Wron.

Posted by: mojo 2009-02-24 15:20

#2 I Blame Global Warming!!!!

Posted by: DoDo 2009-02-24 15:15

#1 "It's disappointing because it was giving us novel information to help us move our understanding forward on global warming," Alan O'Neill, science director of the Reading, U.K.- based Centre for Earth Observation, said in an interview.

Umm...how can it have given any information since it crashed; novel co2 info of a falling satellite? Or is it like those chinese spacewalk missions which take place before the launch?

Posted by: swksvolFF 2009-02-24 14:28

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