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Mourning Glory

Nature volume 471, pages 143–144 (2011)Cite this article

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NASA satellite crash will hamper solar monitoring and aerosol measurements vital to improving climate models.

The parallels are spooky. The Glory probe was meant to collect crucial climate data as part of NASA's 'A-Train' constellation of Earth-observing satellites, just like the doomed Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) that launched two years ago. Like OCO, Glory took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. And it rode the same model of rocket, the Taurus XL.

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Tollefson, J. Mourning Glory. Nature 471, 143–144 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/471143a

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