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Glory Launch Failure Summary Released
NASA has released a summary report on findings from a panel that investigated the unsuccessful 2011 launch of the agency's Glory spacecraft.
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NASA Names Mishap Board For Taurus XL Launch Failure Investigation
NASA has selected the members of the board that will investigate the unsuccessful March 4 launch of the Glory spacecraft.
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NASA Creates Glory Satellite Mishap Investigation Board
NASA's Glory mission ended Friday after the spacecraft failed to reach orbit following its launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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NASA's Glory Satellite Fails To Reach Orbit
NASA's Glory mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Friday at 5:09:45 a.m. EST failed to reach orbit.
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NASA's Glory Satellite Scheduled for Launch on March 4
NASA's Glory spacecraft is scheduled for launch on Friday, March 4.
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NASA Assessing New Launch Dates For The Glory Mission
Preparations for the launch of NASA's Glory mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California have been suspended temporarily.
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NASA Schedules Next Glory Mission Launch Attempt
The launch of NASA’s Glory spacecraft from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California is currently planned for no earlier than Friday, Feb. 25 at 5:09 a.m. EST.
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NASA Postpones Launch Of Glory Mission
The launch of NASA’s Glory spacecraft from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California has been postponed at least 24 hours.
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Next Step In NASA Climate Studies Set To Launch
NASA's next Earth-observing satellite mission, called Glory, is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California early on the morning of Feb. 23.
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Glory Promises New View of Perplexing Particles
A new satellite should help scientists pinpoint just how much of an effect on climate aerosols can have.
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NASA's Glory Climate Satellite Ready for Launch Feb. 23
The launch of NASA's Glory spacecraft aboard an Orbital Sciences Taurus XL rocket is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 23.
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Taurus XL Ready to Launch Glory Spacecraft
The Glory spacecraft is ready to survey the world's atmosphere for aerosols while the Taurus Xl preps for its return to flight.
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Missing Chapters of the Climate Story
Every second, millions of tons of hydrogen fuse into helium in the sun’s core as part of a massive chain of thermonuclear reactions that yield the energy equivalent of billions of exploding hydrogen bombs.
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Education satellites hitch ride on Glory mission
Good things sometimes come in small packages. For NASA's Launch Services Program, one of those packages is a Poly Picosatellite Orbital Deployer, or P-POD.
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Glory Aims to Unravel Mysteries of Aerosols
Engineers and technicians at Vandenberg Air Force base, Calif., are preparing the Earth-observing satellite Glory for launch on Feb. 23.
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NASA Prepares to Launch Next Earth-Observing Satellite Mission
The Glory mission will improve our understanding of how the sun and tiny atmospheric particles called aerosols affect Earth's climate.
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Glory to Study Key Pieces of the Climate Puzzle
The Glory spacecraft will offer a new stream of data that climatologists will use to improve the accuracy of climate models.
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NASA Announces Media Briefing About Next Earth Science Mission
NASA will hold a media briefing on Thursday, Jan. 20, at 1 p.m. EST, about the agency's next Earth-observing satellite mission, Glory.
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Glory Arrives At Vandenberg Air Force Base for Launch
Glory, the latest Earth-observing satellite developed by NASA, arrived Tuesday at Vandenberg in preparation for launch.
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Introducing the A-Train
A convoy of "A-Train" satellites has emerged as one of the most powerful tools scientists have for understanding our planet’s changing climate.
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NASA's Glory Satellite Back on Track
Engineers have successfully replaced a faulty component that could have had serious consequences for the Glory satellite, NASA's next climate-monitoring mission.
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Glory Team Overcomes Engineering Obstacles
Engineers have faced and overcome a number of unique engineering challenges in recent years while preparing NASA's newest climate-monitoring mission for launch.
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Map Offers View of Health-Sapping Air Pollution
Scientists have produced a new map of Fine Particulate Matter particles 2.5 micrometers or less in diameter (PM2.5), using MISR/MODIS data.
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NASA CARES About Carbonaceous Aerosols
The U.S. Department of Energy led this year’s Carbonaceous Aerosol and Radiation Effects Study (CARES), including NASA researchers, to analyze the way these particles affect the area downwind of Sacramento.
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Aerosols: From Ash in the Wind to Smoke from the Stack
Aerosols don't just come from spray cans. Any airborne particle or droplet, whether from a canister, the smokestack of a factory, or a dust storm, is an aerosol.