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Summary A rocket carrying the Glory Earth Satellite launched on Friday failed to propel it in to the orbit. NASA said that both the rocket and the satellite plummeted into the Pacific, on Friday.
NASA told a media crew that a protective covering on the Taurus XL rocket did not separate as planned three minutes after the launch. With the covering remained intact, the rocket was too heavy to get the satellite into the orbit.The satellite and rocket were built by Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp, which suffered a similar failure with a Taurus XL rocket in 2009 on another NASA launch.After the 2009 launch failure, the ‘Orbital Sciences Crop’ redesigned the system for shedding the protective covering. Ron Grabe of the company said that the experts believed that the problem had been fixed and had carried out three successful launches with the new system before Fridays failure.The Glory Satellite was to have provided scientists with information on how the sun and atmospheric particles affected earths climate.The satellite had been originally scheduled for launch on February 23, but was delayed by a computer problem.
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