Faulty circuit boards delay AXAF at least five weeks

Launch of NASA's Chandra Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) has been delayed at least five weeks, and possibly "several months" in the worst case, after faulty circuit boards were discovered in the spacecraft just before it was wrapped for shipment to Kennedy Space Center for launch...

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