RL10 grounding may continue as combustion chamber break probed

Staff June 29, 1999
Upcoming space launches using the Pratt&Whitney RL10 engine may be delayed longer than expected in the wake of Boeing's finding that the "probable cause" of last month's Delta III launch failure was an explosion that shattered the combustion chamber in the upper stage's RL10. Boeing's failure...

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