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==Launch Problems==
==Launch Problems==
The rocket had extra thrust worth 50 seconds and with 80% additional thrust. After 375 seconds, it went outside of Earth orbit, but it went out disastrously. The orbit was extremely elliptical, considering the mission a total loss.
The rocket had extra thrust worth 50 seconds and with 80% additional thrust. After 375 seconds, it went outside of Earth orbit, but it went out disastrously. The orbit was extremely elliptical, considering the mission a total loss.
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==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 10:58, 17 January 2011

Template:Infobox Spacecraft NOAA-B (somehow should have been NOAA-7) was a failed mission and a destroyed satellite that was launched on May 29, 1980.[1] It became space debris. It was considered a failure because of its very elliptical orbit.

Launch Problems

The rocket had extra thrust worth 50 seconds and with 80% additional thrust. After 375 seconds, it went outside of Earth orbit, but it went out disastrously. The orbit was extremely elliptical, considering the mission a total loss. [1]

See also

See also

Template:Space-based meteorological observation


  1. ^ "NOAA-B". Astronautix. Retrieved 2010-03-01.