Range safety concerns delay DOE satellite launch on a Taurus

Concerns that the trajectory of its Taurus launch vehicle may take it over inhabited Pacific islands have delayed yesterday's planned launch of a U.S. Energy Dept. satellite until Saturday at the earliest. The Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) satellite was to have been launched aboard the Orbital...

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