Report: Failure of Glory climate satellite unknown
Associated Press
Feb 20, 2013 5:18 PM (ET)
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20130220/DA4IKNG03.html
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - A group of experts
investigating the launch failure of a NASA climate satellite has failed
to come up with a reason.
The Glory satellite plummeted into the Pacific in 2011 shortly after
lifting off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base along the California coast.
The panel's report released Wednesday found the rocket's
clamshell-shaped covering over the satellite never fully opened. But the
experts said they were unable to determine why. The covering surrounds
the satellite as it flies through the atmosphere.
The loss of the $424 million mission was an embarrassment for NASA,
which similarly lost another climate satellite in 2009.
The rocket was a Taurus XL from Orbital Sciences Corp.
NASA only released a summary of the accident report, citing U.S.
security regulations and proprietary company information.
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