Nation IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Rocket to Launch From Airplane
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
An unusual airplane-launched rocket arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to be readied for flight with a satellite designed to monitor environmental damage in Brazil’s fragile rain forests. The winged Pegasus rocket is set for launch about 11:20 a.m. PST Tuesday from a B-52 bomber airborne off the coast of Florida. Orbital Sciences Corp., the small aerospace company that developed the rocket, said it had solved technical problems that delayed the $13.5-million mission for more than a month.
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