Report finds no root cause for Taurus launch failure
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2013, 6:49 AM ET (1149 GMT)
An investigation into the loss of a NASA climate satellite launched nearly two years ago failed to turn up a most probable cause for the failure, according to a report released this week. NASA's Glory satellite launched on a Taurus XL rocket in March 2011, but failed to reach orbit when the rocket's payload fairing did not separate during ascent. A review of the failure confirmed that the fairing's failure to separate prevented the satellite from reaching orbit, but could not determine what caused the separation failure, given the limited data available. The previous Taurus launch, also of a NASA satellite, in 2009, also failed because of a problem with the payload fairing separation system.
An investigation into the loss of a NASA climate satellite launched nearly two years ago failed to turn up a most probable cause for the failure, according to a report released this week. NASA's Glory satellite launched on a Taurus XL rocket in March 2011, but failed to reach orbit when the rocket's payload fairing did not separate during ascent. A review of the failure confirmed that the fairing's failure to separate prevented the satellite from reaching orbit, but could not determine what caused the separation failure, given the limited data available. The previous Taurus launch, also of a NASA satellite, in 2009, also failed because of a problem with the payload fairing separation system.
Related Links:
| <<previous article | next article>> |
|
news in brief
|
|
|
|
news links
|
|
Wednesday, March 12
Rocket Lab Schedules Two Launches Three Days Apart, Upcoming Mission to Deploy Final Satellites in Kinéis Constellation
Rocket Lab — 5:12 am ET (0912 GMT) Rocket Lab Announces “At The Market” (ATM) Equity Offering Program
Rocket Lab — 5:12 am ET (0912 GMT) Rocket Lab Announces Intention to Acquire Mynaric, Leading Laser Communications Provider, in Latest Strategic Step Toward Becoming an End-to-End Space Company
Rocket Lab — 5:11 am ET (0911 GMT) DOD Probes Commercial GEO-based Situational Awareness Options
Aviation Week — 5:10 am ET (0910 GMT) Chinese Citizen Pleads Guilty to Flying Drone Over Vandenberg Space Force Base
Santa Barbara (CA) Edhat — 5:10 am ET (0910 GMT) |
