NASA pins $2.7 billion investment on Chandra launch with IUS
NASA is risking its $2.7 billion investment in the Chandra Advanced X- ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) on a Boeing Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) like the one that left a Defense Support Program early warning satellite stranded in the wrong orbit earlier this year. Despite the danger, Chandra Program...
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