Delta failure overturns ambitious launch schedule

Last week's launch failure of a Delta II booster has thrown an ambitious flight schedule for the workhorse rocket into turmoil, with the first launch of the Iridium low-Earth orbit telecommunications network the first casualty. A Delta II carrying the first of a new generation of Global Positioning...

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