The fortunes of space exploration are not always kind. The
Orbiting Carbon Observatory (or OCO), which scientists have been working on since Al Gore was Vice-President, is no more.
Launched early this morning from our
California spaceport so it could attain a polar orbit, OCO was to engage in a 2 year
study of the major greenhouse gas.

But due to a malfunction in its
Taurus booster rocket it did not make it to orbit and evidently
hit the ocean somewhere near Antartica.
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