January earliest possible launch date for HESSI after rough handling at JPL.
FLIGHT DELAY: Pegasus launch of NASA's High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) will come in January 2001, at the earliest, instead of this summer as planned, after some rough handling at JPL last week damaged the $75 million spacecraft. Vibration tests at the troubled Caltech-operated...
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