{"id":102,"date":"2009-02-25T14:46:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T19:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/02\/25\/102\/"},"modified":"2009-02-25T15:28:36","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T20:28:36","slug":"102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/02\/25\/102\/","title":{"rendered":"Failed satellite launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I asked <a href=\"http:\/\/myweb.facstaff.wwu.edu\/bunna\/\">my brother Andy<\/a> what the consequences for climate science would be from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/access\/id\/41167\/title\/OBSERVATORY_CRASHES_AFTER_LAUNCH\">failed launch<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/oco.jpl.nasa.gov\/\">Orbiting Carbon Observatory<\/a> satellite this week.\u00a0 He pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/02\/its-wrong-to-wish-on-space-hardware\/\">this<\/a>, which has a lot of good information, both on this satellite and on the difficulty of doing science with space-based instruments in general.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t know about it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/\">RealClimate.org<\/a> is full of great stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked my brother Andy what the consequences for climate science would be from the failed launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite this week.\u00a0 He pointed me to this, which has a lot of good information, both on this satellite and on the difficulty of doing science with space-based instruments in general. For those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/02\/25\/102\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Failed satellite launch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}