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Originally Posted by koputai
It looks like the Glory satellite (Earth and atmospheric monitoring) has crashed in the South Pacific after the 4th stage failed to fire due to the payload fairing not separating.
The launch vehicle had the same failure the last time it was used for an Earth monitoring satellite two years ago. 
That's a hell of a lot of work down the drain......
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Glory/main/index.html
Cheers,
Jason. |
Hi Jason, the reliabilety of this launch vehicle is not very good
9 Launches 3 failures,,not a good average
Cheers