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To: Andy from Chapel Hill

It sounds like the final stage was unable to separate.
So now where did it come down?


54 posted on 03/04/2011 3:00:16 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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While launch and separation of the rocket’s first stage went as planned, a clamshell-shaped “fairing” covering the satellite failed to open, meaning it was too heavy to reach orbit, Brunschwyler said on NASA’s online television station.

“As a direct result of carrying that extra weight, we could not reach orbit,” Brunschwyler said. Indications are the satellite “landed just short of Antarctica, in the ocean.”


55 posted on 03/04/2011 3:08:32 PM PST by Andy from Chapel Hill
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