NASA GOLD makes orbit despite Ariane-5 rocket mishap

NASA has successfully made contact with its new GOLD satellite, after fears that a launch anomaly could have destroyed the expensive instrument. Ariane 5 took off from the Kourou spaceport near French Guiana yesterday night, but ground control unexpectedly lost contact with its telemetry roughly nine minutes into flight. It could have been an expensive glitch. The mission was carrying … Continue reading