FLORIDA : First Titan 3 Flight Postponed 4th Time
The maiden flight of a powerful Titan 3 rocket, with a payload of British and Japanese satellites, was postponed because of bad weather at Cape Canaveral, Fla. It was the fourth delay of the long-awaited launching since Dec. 7. The $100-million rocket, the most powerful U.S. booster ever built for commercial use, had been scheduled to go at 4:20 p.m., but Robert Gordon of Martin Marietta Astronautics Group, which built the Titan, said winds were too high. The Titan will deliver to orbit the Skynet 4A, a British military communications satellite, and JCSat 2, a Japanese communications satellite.
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