By Tobias Carroll At a time when climate change has had a dramatic effect on the planet’s weather, any means by which we can learn more about conditions around the globe can have a substantial effect. Being able to better predict hurricanes or droughts can literally save lives — and getting improved data from satellites is an important element of that. Unfortunately, sometimes satellites intended for a position in orbit don’t quite make it there. That was the case on Sunday, when a rocket that was intended to take two CubeSats into orbit didn’t get all the way there. An article at Space.com he…