Showing posts with label taurus xl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label taurus xl. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

South Korean Space Failure

The link reports half the two-piece payload fairing did not separate from the second stage as it should have. The extra weight turned the effort into another sea-sat (maybe a land sat). The fairing issue sounds analogous to the Orbiting Carbon Observatory failure, which rode on an OSC provided Taurus XL.