Tracker Flaw Threatens Aqua Launch
Engineers are scurrying to determine how to correct or live with a design flaw in the Ball Aerospace star tracker shades fitted to NASA's Aqua Earth sciences satellite slated for launch from the Vandenberg AFB in California next month. According to Rick Pickering, Aqua deputy project manager...
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