NATION IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Commercial Titan 3 to Launch Satellites
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
In its maiden flight, Martin Marietta’s Titan 3, the nation’s most powerful commercial rocket, is to put two advanced communications satellites into orbit tonight. The $100-million, 1.5-million-pound rocket, carrying a British military relay station and a Japanese satellite, will lift off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Titan is the second entry in the race for a commercial space-launching capability. Mc-Donnell Douglas launched a British satellite aboard a Delta 2 rocket on Aug. 27.
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