Glory Launch Commentator George Diller: This is Taurus Launch Control.
We're 15 minutes, 35 seconds since the liftoff of the Taurus XL rocket. The
flight was going well, until the time of fairing separation, and then we had data
coming into the Mission Director's Center from our Vandenberg tracking
station and from Point MuGu that we did not have a successful fairing
separation from the Taurus and it was insufficient velocity, with the fairing still
on, for the vehicle to be able to achieve orbit.
So at this time, we are going to be activating our launch contingency plan here
in the Mission Director's Center. We were taking all of the data that we have
from our tracking sites to be able to give us whatever information we can
ascertain from the data from the vehicle data that might give us some clues as
to what may have happened and why the fairing did not come off, but again,
the fairing did not separate from the Taurus and the Glory spacecraft is not
able to achieve orbit.
So at this point until we are able to have a press briefing to provide whatever
additional information we might be able to indicate that would give us some
further data on what we've been doing since we first got that data indicating
that the fairing did not come off, we will be concluding our coverage and our
next activity on NASA TV for the Taurus,
Glory launch will be our contingency press briefing.
So 20 minutes after the launch of the Glory spacecraft on the Taurus,
we will conclude our coverage.
This is Taurus Launch Control.