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Global warming satellite crashes into ocean
ABC News Online ^
| October 9, 2005
Posted on 10/08/2005 4:22:29 PM PDT by Brian328i
A European satellite designed to measure how fast the polar ice caps are melting has crashed into the Arctic Ocean after its launch failed.
The European Space Agency's CryoSat was on board a rocket launched from a cosmodrome in northern Russia but it failed to establish communication at the scheduled time.
A Russian space official says the satellite is believed to have fallen into the Lincoln Sea near the North Pole, where the second rocket stage was supposed to fall.
The $224 million satellite was to have scanned the thickness of polar ice sheets and floating sea ice with unprecedented accuracy as part of an effort to understand global warming.
"The satellite did not go into orbit because of a dysfunction in the final stage ... of the second stage of the Rockot launcher," the Interfax news agency quoted Russian Space Agency spokesman Vyacheslav Davidenko as saying.
The Russian-built Rockot launcher carrying the 711-kilogram CryoSat blasted off from Russia's north-western Plesetsk cosmodrome and was to have put it in orbit about 90 minutes later.
Earlier, the ESA said it feared the satellite had been lost as it had not received a signal from the craft.
CryoSat was the first in a series of six ESA 'Earth Explorer' satellites designed to explore key environmental problems.
-AFP
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; crash; cryosat; esa; europe; globalwarming; ocean; satellite
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Oh the humor.
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posted on
10/08/2005 4:22:32 PM PDT
by
Brian328i
To: Brian328i
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posted on
10/08/2005 4:23:53 PM PDT
by
brivette
To: Brian328i
As God is my witness, I thought Satellites could fly....
To: Brian328i
How much did this event raise sea level?
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posted on
10/08/2005 4:24:11 PM PDT
by
southernnorthcarolina
(“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something." -- Winston Churchill)
To: Always Right
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posted on
10/08/2005 4:25:50 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace Begins in the Womb)
To: Brian328i
Kind of a metaphor for the whole global warming movement, no?
To: Brian328i
I wonder how much global warming occurred trying to, and failing to, lift that bird into orbit?
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posted on
10/08/2005 4:26:28 PM PDT
by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: Brian328i
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posted on
10/08/2005 4:26:29 PM PDT
by
Czar
(StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
To: Brian328i
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posted on
10/08/2005 4:26:33 PM PDT
by
ArtyFO
(I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
"Kind of a metaphor for the whole global warming movement, no?"
Yup. And nobody seems to have noticed how Bush side-stepped the Kyoto hoax
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posted on
10/08/2005 4:28:16 PM PDT
by
Fenris6
(3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
To: Brian328i
CryoSat go CryoSplat, for great justice!
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posted on
10/08/2005 4:28:22 PM PDT
by
steveo
(Member: Fathers Against Rude Television)
To: ArtyFO
Bush had it shot down. Let the conspiracy theories begin.
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posted on
10/08/2005 4:28:46 PM PDT
by
Bringbackthedraft
(Frodo failed, Hillary now has the Ring)
To: Always Right
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posted on
10/08/2005 4:29:20 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: ArtyFO
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posted on
10/08/2005 4:30:12 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(MSM rioted over Katrina and looted the truth)
To: Brian328i
>> Global warming satellite crashes into ocean
It sux when that happens.
On a happier note however we will be spared decades of eurointellectual discourse and pictures from orbit about how American capitalism is destroying the planet.
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posted on
10/08/2005 4:31:18 PM PDT
by
mmercier
(and now he lies a useless thing)
To: Brian328i
"So, are you in good hands?"
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posted on
10/08/2005 4:31:19 PM PDT
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: Always Right
Bush's fault. It was an evil plot by the U.S. military to shoot down the Euro satellite that would have proven that the world is being poisoned by the USA.
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posted on
10/08/2005 4:31:27 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: Brian328i
Nothing ever goes right for poor AlGore.
To: Brian328i
in the Sunday edition of the New York Times they will profess on the idiotorial page that Karl Rove had something to do with it and CBS will back them up.
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posted on
10/08/2005 4:31:38 PM PDT
by
Sub-Driver
(Unelect All NJ Politicians....)
To: Brian328i
Crash and burn, eh Maverick?
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posted on
10/08/2005 4:32:13 PM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
("My Gov'nor don't got the answer")
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