Delta fails for first time since 1986; satellite salvageable
McDonnell Douglas' Delta rocket came up one launch shy of 50 successful missions in a row when an apparent staging malfunction caused it to place a Korean communications satellite in the wrong orbit Saturday. The Delta II lifting off from Cape Canaveral at 7:10 a.m. EDT left the Koreasat-1 satellite...
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