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Article: General Dynamics Atlas, NASA again delay mission launches. (General Dynamics Commercial Launch Services Inc. delays launch of Atlas Centaur rocket pending analysis of test data)
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- Satellite News
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- March 15, 1993
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General Dynamics Commercial Launch Services Inc. again has postponed the launch of an Atlas Centaur rocket to "allow for full analysis and validation of the test data" arising from a corrective action plan initiated after the second of two Atlas-Centaur failures (SN, March 8, p. 1).
GD said the launch of the first in a series of nine Hughes Aircraft Co.-built Navy UHF satellites, which was slated for March 11 onboard an Atlas-Centaur, tentatively will launch March 22 from Care Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The company said that although there were no problems with the launch process, testing had taken longer than anticipated. "The new launch date of March 22 ...