Titan IV orbits spysat; Ariane 4 lofts two communications birds

The U.S. Air Force launched a $1 billion imaging radar satellite aboard a Lockheed Martin-built Titan IVB heavy-lift rocket Thursday, less than a half-hour after an Ariane 44LP took two big commercial communications satellites to orbit. The Titan put a National Reconnaissance Office Lacrosse radar...

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