The Nation - News from Aug. 14, 1989
Lingering storm clouds and lightning forced military flight controllers to delay blastoff until Friday of an unmanned Air Force Delta 2 rocket carrying a military navigation satellite. Heavy thunderstorms had rolled through Cape Canaveral, Fla., during the night and, after using up most of a 21-minute launch period, Air Force flight controllers halted the countdown. The 126-foot, $30-million Delta 2 carried the third of 21 new $65-million Global Positioning System navigation satellites designed to tell military units their locations to within 53 feet anywhere in the world.
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