[amsat-bb] ESA's Cryosat launch failure

["Howard Long" <howard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks

Read this in this morning's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

"A European Space Agency satellite that was to have collected data on polar 
ice broke up in flight after being launched on a converted Russian 
ballistic missile.

"The loss of the Cryosat satellite is a major blow to the agency, which had 
hoped to conduct a three-year mapping of polar sea ice and provide more 
reliable data for the study of global warming."

73 Howard W3/G6LVB
----
Sent via amsat-bb@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author.
Not an AMSAT member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!
To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe amsat-bb" to Majordomo@amsat.org