America鈥檚 rocket scientists have hit a run of bad luck. Two weeks after a
Titan 4 launcher exploded over the Atlantic, the first of Boeing鈥檚 new Delta 3
rockets suffered the same fate. The rocket, carrying a communications satellite,
started losing control about a minute into the flight from Cape Canaveral in
Florida and detonated soon afterwards, assisted by a self-destruct signal sent
75 seconds after launch.
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