Chandra Delay Impacts Shuttle
NASA has again delayed the launch of a new $1.5-billion X-ray telescope, this time by at least 5 weeks, after builder TRW made a last-minute discovery of faulty circuit boards that could have triggered a major failure. The Chandra advanced X-ray astrophysics facility, formerly known as AXAF, had...
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