October 29, 2002 -- A Boeing Delta 2 rocket was damaged in a freak accident
last week as workers attached a Global Positioning System satellite to the
booster at Cape Canaveral's launch pad 17B, the Air Force acknowledged
Tuesday. The $50 million replacement satellite for the U.S. military's GPS
navigation network had been scheduled for liftoff November 7. But repairs
are expected to delay the mission at least a month and could also push back
the January launch of NASA's fourth Great Observatory.
More: <http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0210/28gps2r8/>
Professor Terry Moore
Professor of Satellite Navigation & Deputy Director
Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy
The University of Nottingham
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
United Kingdom
Tel +44 115 951 3886
Fax +44 115 951 3881
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