Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Space Tech 5 scrubs

The control team this morning scrubbed the planned launch of the Space Technology 5 mission. The mission, featuring a trio of technology-demonstrating micro-satellites, has not yet been rescheduled. The flight, on a Pegasus rocket dropped from an airplane off the coast of California, was called off today because of the failure of pins associated with steering controls to retract. We'll update once NASA reschedules or provides additional technical information for the scrub.

Afternoon update: the delay will last at least 48 hours.

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