QuikSCAT makes it to space after six-month delay
NASA's QuikSCAT ocean scatterometer satellite has finally reached orbit, six months later than the engineers who built it in record time to fill a data gap had hoped. Built by Ball Aerospace as the first spacecraft procured from NASA's Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition "catalogue," the 2,140-pound...
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