Rocket Fairing Failure Dooms NASA Carbon Monitoring Mission
NASA’s first mission to monitor the effects of humanity’s input of greenhouse gas-causing carbon dioxide was lost Feb. 24 when the payload fairing on its Taurus XL 3110 launcher apparently failed to open about 2 minutes and 55 seconds into the mission. The Orbital Carbon Observatory (OCO) and four...
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