E 'failed this morning the launch of NASA's Glory satellite that was to follow the evolution of aerosols in Earth's atmosphere and pollution from nanoparticles.
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| The launch [Orbital Science Corp.]. |
The carrier, a Taurus-XL, is a regular party at the scheduled time, the 1009:43 UTC, from Space Launch Complex 576-E of the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California , and has performed well throughout the first part of the mission, but to failure was the separation of the fairing, the cone shaped cover that protects the payload by crossing the dense layers of the atmosphere. Unfortunately, the lack of separation of this part of the carrier's heavy load, to prevent the achievement of the orbital velocity and thus lead to destructive re-entry into the atmosphere. It is estimated that the load (or what's left) is precipitated in the South Pacific and even Antarctica.
Beyond Glory were 3 other small satellites:
- Explorer 1 First, a cubesat which was to study the Van Allen belts
- KySat 1, which was a picosat be available to schools
- Hermes, a cubesat to study the performance of communications cubesat same
This defect was introduced nearly identical two years ago, when NASA lost another satellite, OCO (which was to study the distribution of 'carbon dioxide in the atmosphere), which has suffered the same fate of Glory just starting on the same type of carrier.
After two postponements due to problems in the liftoff of a launch pad of the computer, now the bad news of this spectacular failure. When Orbital Sciences engineers became aware of the problem have sought to extend the possible operation of motor upper stages, but there was nothing to do. And to think that the whole system of separation of the fairing had been completely redesigned, unfortunately, as we have seen, with little success.
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