QuickSCAT
A Lockheed Martin Titan II launched NASA's QuickSCAT sea-surface wind-monitoring satellite on June 19 from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., placing the vehicle into a near-polar 800-km. (500-mi.) orbit. The 1,910-lb. spacecraft was Ball Aerospace&Technologies Corp.'s first commercial satellite based on a BCP...
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