Failure to launch
Scientists’ efforts to better understand aerosols, one of the least-understood factors in climate change (SN: 12/4/10, p. 24), were dealt a blow when NASA’s latest earth science mission failed on launch on March 4. The protective shell housing the Glory satellite did not separate as it should have from the Taurus rocket that launched from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base.
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