Delta IV Heavy Demo Launch Comes Up Short
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WASHINGTON -- The early shutdown of the Delta 4 Heavyâs propulsion system during the Boeing-built rocketâs demonstration launch Tuesday prevented three satellites on board from reaching orbit.
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NASA&#39;s Swift satellite successfully launched today aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket at 12:16 pm EST from Launch Complex 17A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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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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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The launch of Boeing&#39;s new Delta Four heavy-lift rocket was scrubbed for a second time Sunday because of technical problems.
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A European rocket carrying two British and Indian satellites was successfully launched Sunday from South America after a one-day delay due to a technical glitch.
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Boeing Co. scrubbed a planned launch of a Delta IV heavy-lift rocket on Sunday as engineers sought to determine what caused a temperature control system to malfunction after an aborted launch on Saturday.
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By The Associated Press  BERLIN - Europe's first mission to the moon got a scare, but ground controllers made a last-minute course correction early Saturday that kept the craft from hitting the surface earlier than planned.
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MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 15  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alliant Techsystems  propulsion and composite technologies supported yesterday's successful launch of a Boeing Delta II rocket carrying a classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
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The mobile service tower (MST) was retracted from around the Boeing Delta 2 rocket at launch pad 17B at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004, exposing the vehicle as the countdown entered its final hours before liftoff.
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News PROMONTORY, Box Elder County -- Although many of the scores of watchers from NASA, the media and ATK Launch Systems had witnessed booster motor static firings in the past, Thursday's countdown brought a breathless silence from the spectators.
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Kern County -- The first privately funded rocket to reach space completed the first half of a $10 million flight competition Wednesday by soaring to an altitude of 64 miles -- but only after enduring a white-knuckle series of barrel rolls.
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By Jon W. Glass, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Dec. 12--WALLOPS ISLAND -- Disappointed Air Force officials say it will be Thursday "at the very best" before their Minotaur I rocket will blast off here for space.
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Delta Air Lines announced two financing deals on Monday, but its most sought-after agreement, with its pilots&#39; union, remained elusive.
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The first private manned rocket to reach space soared toward the edge of the atmosphere again in an unexpectedly bumpy ride Wednesday in the first half of a bid to earn a 10 million (8.
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MOJAVE, Calif. A test pilot yesterday made a successful foray into space marked by a white-knuckle ascent in which his rocket ship rolled at least 16 times in 16 seconds.
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Company exec's post-launch spiel published too soon, it seems
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nick-bts writes &quot;CNN, the BBC and Space.com are reporting the first successful launch of the new Boeing Delta-4 Heavy, capable of lifting 23 tonnes into a low-Earth orbit (similar to the space shuttle).