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To Reach the High Frontier: A History of U.S. Launch Vehicles
"A valuable contribution to the field of aerospace literature," this book includes an extensive overview of Delta history and development along with chapters on Atlas, Titan, Scout, Space Shuttle, and much more.
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Archive for August, 1999
17-Aug-99 | Delta flight 274 – Globalstar-6
Delta 274 launched from Cape Canaveral at 00:37:41.193 EDT on 17 August, taking four Globalstar satellites to orbit. Boeing has declared a new record for the greatest number of satellites launched in the shortest period of time: 17 sats in 68 days. Sixteen of these have been for Globalstar; two more launches will be on Deltas while the remainder of their constellation will be flown aboard Soyuz rockets.
16-Aug-99 | Stardust goes into safe mode twice
Stardust is in good health despite two safe-mode events within the past few weeks. The explanation is rife with acronyms but has to do with a software error causing problems with navigational star camera communications. Stardust, the fourth mission* in the NASA Discovery Program, will fly close to comet Wild-2 and will be the first spacecraft to return cometary material to Earth for analysis. It was launched aboard Delta 266 on 7 February, 1999.