The Taurus XL rocket carrying the Orbiting Carbon Observatory blasted off just before 2 a.m. from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base.
But minutes later, the fairing on the rocket failed to separate, a preliminary investigation found. The fairing is a clamshell cover protecting the satellite as it is blasted through the atmosphere.
The 450-kilogram satellite was supposed to be placed into an orbit some 650 kilometres high to track carbon dioxide emissions.
"Certainly for the science community it's a huge disappointment," said John Brunschwyler, Taurus project manager for Orbital Sciences Corp., which built the rocket and satellite. "It's taken so long to get here."
The project was nine years in the making.
The rocket landed in the ocean near Antarctica. A group of environment ministers from more than a dozen countries met on the southern continent this week to get the latest science on global warming.
NASA said it will convene a team of experts to investigate the loss of the satellite.
The observatory was NASA's first satellite dedicated to monitoring carbon dioxide on a global scale. Measurements collected from the $280 million mission were expected to improve climate models and help researchers determine where the greenhouse gas originates and how much is being absorbed by forests and oceans.
Last month, Japan successfully launched the world's first satellite to monitor global warming emissions.
Scientists currently depend on 282 land-based stations - and scattered aircraft flights - to monitor carbon dioxide at low altitudes.
Carbon dioxide is the leading greenhouse gas and its buildup helps trap heat from the sun, causing potentially dangerous warming of the planet. Carbon dioxide emissions rose three per cent worldwide from 2006 to 2007, according to international science agencies.
Wind generation has a unreal cost on the consumer and the environment, namely birds and bats. I love to read about how wind generation serves people. One article had a two million dollar wind generator located at the top of a ski hill. The owner said "...this unit saves us one hundred thousand dollars a year and does two thirds of our yearly energy"...."and it will last for ever"! That's quite good isn't it? This unit will pay for itself say in twenty years and it will last forever! Please asshole. This thing will be a Coke can in twenty years, a second generation Coke can. Plus this unit is killing bats at an alarming rate, seems it's situated in a migration path for brown bats. What a Eco friendly machine!
We have the answers to ours needs. Large corporations and larger governments are gouging at our pocket books and our future.
Obama is preaching Junk Science.
I sated this before and I will again. Our lives are in our hands. Learn da truth. Don't be fooled into losing your lifestyle and futures just because you have a guilt complex. We are be'n marketed into a middle class genocide. We are killing our futures for the sake of the Hollywood, Washington, New York, marketing gurus. They know your weaknesses. Renewable energy is here, been here forever. Look to the soil, the earth, look to the sun. Wind generation does has it's place also "where" is the question? But don't forsake fossil fuels for something that just doesn't work.
Watch the You Tube video below to enlighten yourself to what the root cause of a "climate change" initiative is. It's all to start a new tax structure. Wait my dear lemmings "Carbon Tax" is upon us!
These Corporations and their Governments wont be finished with us until we are dead and in our graves. Then who will they use to keep them rich?
Sa Later Da Wallycrawler
10 Don't Just Sit There Say Sumthin !:
I am neither a tasty seal nor a slow kayaker.
No? Your a tasty dish none the less!
I think I've probably heard that before.
Due to a serious lack of posting at my place, and irregular in the very least I've lost nearly my entire readership(or picture gawkers I guess in my case) and now it appears my blog is "our" blog LOL
Jaguar you have? Who would be that crude? I find that awfully forward, don'tchu?
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Ice haha ya me too!
There was a time when blog'n was hawt like two years ago, I'd get 50-100 hits a day.
Yesterday I had 35 today 20. And most of those are to watch Denise Austin spread'em!
I write for my sanity. Rant a bit ya know?
Wally, I've never shunned awfully forward. We all know you are reserved 100% of the time :-)
And I agree about the blog thing, I have found the same thing. Maybe everyone is just getting burned out on the whole thing. I also do it for me and not others, sooooooo.......
I just blog for you guys. It's more a 'the whole world will know my name'-thingy :)
and yes, FRAUD is the right word! just another money-making-machine.
but nethertheless I think we should try to be more careful with mother earth.
I opened my blog up 2 years ago to share my HILARIOUS email pics with others... I mean I have a fwd list and hubby being on his political blog kept bugging me to open a blog I finally did and said I'm only posting pics though.
It ended up being quite popular, and was great to share my funnies on... then when I closed the original iceprincess and the Sexy naked tasteful pics and reopened this one, I just lost the umfph and I'm just so blah, I mean hell my posts are now borderline retarded so....
Glad you still come...and yeah Murane it was fun to have your name out and people from all over the map coming to see ya and what you had to say or show. I agree.
I have met so many great people on here....
...and Wally, hell I could throw a stone at your head we're so close...or at the very least, meet up with you for a drink! (or a ride on your HOG) hehehee.
Have you visited Tracy lately, Wally? I haven't!
And hey.................you called me Ice, you don't call me "ICE" you call me "Princess"!
haha...I kinda liked it!
Miss Jaguar I was so busy this week I didn't have time to respond to your comment and I am the most reserved man on earth, except for Obama of coarse! How does a guy go grey in one month?
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D.M. Ya we're all in it for da world. I do have some readers that makes me feel good. Shit 50 people a day visit here that's OK with me. Even if it's to look at Miss. Austin's "Flower"?!
That's why I posted them anyhoo!
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My lil'Princess I'm so sorry!
Your still all that.
I just messed up.
Ya I go over to see T.K.'s blog, but she's all torn up about her break-up. She doesn't post much anymore. And she rarely comes over here to see what's up. I think she's still pissed off at me for some of my comments I post on her site?/! I don't think she likes my honest approach and sense of humour? I think I'm way to much fer her?! haha.
I tend to burn ya a bit.
Ahh I still like her though.
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