Cryosat team desperate to rebuild

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4326386.stm

"Duncan Wingham told BBC News the data the satellite was seeking on the state of the Earth's ice cover was essential to our understanding of climate change.

"You have to see [the replacement cost] in context," he said. "There is a cost in not knowing what is going on and in the end that's an even larger cost."

Cryosat fell into the Arctic Ocean shortly after Saturday's blast-off.
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"It was the first of the European Space Agency's Earth Explorer missions - relatively low-cost projects designed to obtain quick answers to important environmental questions."

LOL.

You get what you pay for. Fucking Russians.

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Like NASA has been any more reliable. And besides, we're not the stupid morons who won't try to make a business from it so we can finance more stuff.

/me wonders of iol companies intentionally made it crash...

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Nasa's a business.  A publicly funded and highly regulated one, but a business nonetheless.

At least now it is.  It's not like DirecTV and WorldSpace have the equipment to put their own satellites into orbit.

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