Delay in Satellite Test of Einstein’s Theory
From Times Wire Reports
NASA postponed Monday’s scheduled launch of a $700-million satellite mission designed to test a tenet of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity because of a software problem.
The Gravity Probe B, one of the most precise scientific instruments ever built, had been scheduled to be carried aloft by a Boeing Delta 2 from the rocket range at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Mission controllers at Florida’s Cape Canaveral said they would attempt the launch again this morning.
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