Sunday, March 18, 2012

Delicate rescue saves stranded $1.7B US satellite

This artist rendering provided by the U.S. Air Force, shows the AEHF-1 satellite in orbit above the earth. Air Force ground controllers executed a delicate rescue to save the $1.7 billion military communications satellite that was stranded in the wrong orbit and at risk of blowing up�-- all possibly because a piece of cloth had been left in a critical fuel line during manufacture. Air Force ground controllers delicately rescued a $1.7 billion military communications satellite last year that had been stranded in the wrong orbit and at risk of blowing up ? all possibly because a piece of cloth had been left in a critical fuel line during manufacture.




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