NATION IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Guidance Satellite Boosted to Orbit
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A $30-million Delta 2 rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., to boost a $65-million military navigation satellite into orbit. The rocket’s payload was a Global Positioning System Navstar satellite, the ninth in a planned network of such spacecraft that ultimately will allow military forces to determine their location and altitude to within 53 feet anywhere in the world. The flight plan called for the satellite to be ejected into a preliminary elliptical orbit.
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