Fuel leaks found in Cassini mission test

Leakage in the Centaur stage of the Titan IV-B rocket slated to launch the Cassini mission to Saturn was observed during an Aug. 5 countdown demonstration test at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., by U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin engineers, NASA reported yesterday. The test, in which the Centaur is...

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