Air Force investigation suggests IUS stages failed to separate
A U.S. Air Force investigation into the cause of last month's failure of a Titan IVB/Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) vehicle to put a Defense Support Program (DSP) early warning satellite in the proper orbit has traced the problem to an apparent incomplete separation of the IUS first and second stages...
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