After failed space flights, NASA investigation leads to Portland, The Oregonian “Twice in the past decade, NASA launched unmanned spacecraft ferrying advanced satellites into Earth’s orbit as part of a […]
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Getting Ready for OCO-2
NASA Prepares to Launch Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 The spacecraft will sample the global geographic distribution of the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide and allow scientists to study their changes […]
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More Bad News for Orbital
NASA Suspends Payments on Launch Contract with Orbital, Space News “Dulles, Va.-based Orbital remains under contract to build OCO-2, a duplicate of the $200 million carbon-mapping satellite destroyed in a […]
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Taurus XL Fairing Fails To Separate – Again – Another Satellite Lost
NASA’s Glory Satellite Fails To Reach Orbit “NASA’s Glory mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Friday at 5:09:45 a.m. EST failed to reach orbit. Telemetry indicated the […]