Boeing rocket fails to reach high orbit
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Because its first stage burned out prematurely, Boeing Co.&#39;s Decatur-built Delta IV heavy-lift rocket Monday put a dummy satellite payload in an orbit closer to Earth than expected, Boeing said in a Wednesday news release.
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By SONJA BARISIC  ATLANTIC, Va. - Monday morning's scheduled launch of a rocket carrying satellites for the Air Force and NASA was called off, according to NASA spokesman Keith Koehler.  No other details were immediately available.
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A private manned rocket soared into space for a second time yesterday, landing successfully after an unexpectedly bumpy ride that nearly meant an early end to the team&#39;s bid to win a $10 million prize.
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America&#39;s new heavy-lifting rocket takes its much-anticipated test flight Saturday, if Mother Nature cooperates. The Boeing Delta 4-Heavy rocket was supposed to launch today, but the forecast for strong winds
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  - A Boeing Co. Delta 2  rocket successfully launched a new U.S. Air Force Global  Positioning Satellite into orbit from Florida on Saturday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Boeing&#39;s massive new Delta 4 Heavy rocket lumbered from its seaside pad Tuesday afternoon, beginning a mission designed to prove the vehicle is capable of lofting super-sized military satellites into orbit.
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The first test since 2002 of the Pentagon&#39;s $25 billion defense against long-range missiles ended in failure early Wednesday when a computer safety system shut down the launch of an interceptor rocket 23 seconds before liftoff.
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'HyFly' crashes, fails to burn An innovative hypersonics programme has suffered a failure, with a prototype scramjet missile failing to perform properly and crashing into the Pacific after less than a minute in the air.â¦
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The first full flight test for the US missile defence system failed when the interceptor rocket didn&#39;t even get off the ground.
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WASHINGTON - NASA announced Tuesday that it has selected Houston-based Boeing Space Exploration to build the upper stage of the Ares I rocket the United States will use to launch astronauts into orbit after the space shuttle retires.
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Northrop Grumman Corp. and Boeing Co. yesterday announced plans to team up to design a vehicle to take astronauts back to the moon and even beyond, but they&#39;ve got to make one stop first
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 - An important test of the United States&#39; fledgling missile defense system ended in failure early Wednesday as an interceptor rocket failed to launch on cue from the Marshall Islands, the Pentagon said.
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The US Air Force has praised a new Boeing Co. rocket meant to loft schoolbus-sized military satellites, despite its failure to put a dummy spacecraft into its planned orbit this week.
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Engineers sought to determine what caused a temperature control system to malfunction after an aborted launch Saturday.
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Boeing Co. failed to reach its goal of 200 orders for the 7E7 Dreamliner in 2004, marking a lukewarm launch for its first new aircraft in a decade.
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Thunderstorms kept the final flight of the Atlas 2 rocket, built by Lockheed Martin Corp., on its Florida launch pad on Monday, the fourth time in as many days the rocket has missed its liftoff.
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By GARY PERILLOUX  Boeing is lobbying Louisiana officials this week in a bid to win a multibillion-dollar rocket assembly project at NASA's Michoud facility in east New Orleans.