1/2 Billion Dollar Junk Science Satellite reduced to Junk

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http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2011/03/climate-research-satellite-los.php
NASA is launching an investigation into what caused a $424 million satellite, and a key climate research tool, to crash early Friday morning.

The mission was to be the first satellite launch under President Obama's climate initiative and was supposed to "advance the United States' contribution to cutting-edge and policy-relevant climate change science," said Michael Freilich, director of NASA's Earth Science Division, in January.

"We failed to make orbit," NASA launch director Omar Baez told reporters Friday. "Indications are that the satellite and rocket ... is in the southern Pacific Ocean somewhere."

The comments on that article are hilarious if it weren't so sad.
 

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