NASA Environmental Satelite crashes into Antartica

[Rosemary S]

That is interesting. This satellite was due to scan the atmosphere for aerosol and carbon inside Earth atmosphere. It it not the first crash. The pPTB are very clever, I must say. How convenient to prevent such a satellite to discover how much our air quality is manupulated the them. here is the whole story:

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/04/nasa-rocket-launch.html

 

[Cheryl Nelson]

I doubt we will ever know what the cause is, but doesn't it seem like this is happening more frequently?

[Stephen Gerard]

Glory would have been the fifth satellite in the A-Train which currently consists of Aura, CALIPSO, CloudSat and Aqua.

There have been problems with the Taurus XL vehicle in the past (only has a 66% success rate).