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SpaceX Falcon 9 launch scrubbed by wayward cruise ship

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Fairing recovery north of Cuba ~596km downrange. Nonetheless, each scrubbed launch likely costs the company several hundred thousand dollars and wastes hundreds or even thousands of work-hours. CSG -2 LHAs from SLC-40 NET 27 Jan 23:11 UTC, altern. 28 Jan to 01 Feb. Booster LZ1 landing. Dogleg maneuver to SSO azimuth.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank, and author of “Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming,” correctly states, “For almost 20 years, from Rio to Kyoto to Copenhagen, we’ve been wasting time, pursuing the failed strategy of cutting carbon-dioxide emissions.