USAF blames Pratt & Whitney RL10 for NRO launch incident
The U. S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles AFB, Calif., now says it was a hydrogen propellant valve in the Pratt & Whitney RL10 Centaur upper-stage engine that caused the placement of two classified National Reconnaissance Office ocean surveillance spacecraft into the...
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