[Launch Alert] Satellite Fails to Reach Orbit

[Launch Alert]

                             LAUNCH ALERT
 				  
                              Brian Webb
                     Ventura County, California
                   launch-alert-editor at earthlink.net
                        www.spacearchive.info

				     2011 March 4 (Friday) 05:12 PST
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             NASA'S GLORY SATELLITE FAILS TO REACH ORBIT 

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Glory mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base
in California Friday at 2:09:45 a.m. PST failed to reach orbit.

Telemetry indicated the fairing, the protective shell atop the Taurus XL
rocket, did not separate as expected about three minutes after launch.

A press briefing to discuss the Glory launch failure is planned at
Vandenberg for approximately 5:00 a.m. PST. NASA Television will carry the
press conference live at:
 
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

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. 

For more information about the Glory mission, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/glory

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