Booster Problem Forces X-43A Mission Slip
NASA has slipped the next test of the X-43A hypersonic testbed until late January 2004, because of an intermittent failure in an actuator associated with its air-launched Pegasus booster. NASA's B-52 was scheduled to fly carrier tests with the X-43A/Pegasus stack this month, but the problem with an...
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