Glory fails to reach orbit
4 March 2011NASA’s Glory mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and failed to reach orbit. The new Earth-observing satellite was intended to improve our understanding of how the sun and tiny atmospheric particles, called aerosols, affect Earth’s climate. Glory was also intended to follow Calipso in the A-train as part of international constellation to study the climate change. It was the second straight failure for the Taurus XL rocket, which appeared to be connected to the rocket failing to release its payload.
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