Delta rocket puts on late-night show with GPS launch
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After a nerve-racking stay on its Cape Canaveral launch pad with uncomfortably close brushes with two powerful hurricanes, a Boeing Delta 2 rocket finally thundered into space this morning where it successfully deployed a Global Positioning System
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The Deep Impact spacecraft is undergoing final tests at Cape Canaveral, Florida. It will blast off atop a Boeing Delta 2 rocket on Dec. 30, and if all goes well, rendezvous with the comet Tempel 1 on Independence Day.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space-bound electricians lit up the skies on their way to make a cosmic nighttime house call.
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The first launch of the Decatur-built, Boeing Delta IV heavy-lift rocket is scheduled today at Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida.
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After a series of delays, a Boeing Delta 2 rocket carrying a Global Positioning System satellite for the Air Force roared into space early Saturday.
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By Frank D. Roylance, The Baltimore Sun  Dec. 10--All systems appeared to be "go" for tomorrow's planned 7 a.m. liftoff of one of the biggest rockets ever launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, 40 miles south of Ocean City.
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By Jim Ellis Associated Press  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Five science satellites blasted off on a single rocket into a golden sunset Saturday on a mission to figure out the source of powerful geomagnetic substorms in the Earth's atmosphere.  The launch at 6:01 p.m.
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By Mike Schneider  Flashes of flame from space shuttle Discovery lit up the darkened sky Saturday as the spacecraft blazed off the launch pad for the first nighttime liftoff in four years.
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A European satellite designed to improve weather forecasting has been given a new launch date.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A dummy satellite carried into space by the new Boeing Delta 4 Heavy rocket failed to reach its intended orbit, officials said Wednesday.
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Boeing's huge Delta 4-Heavy rocket, set for lift-off on Saturday, may play a role in life after the space shuttle.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER   Associated Press writer  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Flashes of flame from space shuttle Discovery lit up the darkened sky Saturday as the spacecraft blazed off the launch pad for the first nighttime liftoff in four years.
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Because its first stage burned out prematurely, Boeing Co.&#39;s Decatur-built Delta IV heavy-lift rocket Monday put a dummy satellite payload in an orbit closer to Earth than expected, Boeing said in a Wednesday news release.
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A Boeing Co. Delta 2 rocket successfully launched a new U.S. Air Force Global Positioning Satellite into orbit from Florida Saturday.
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For the first time in four years, the next space shuttle launch attempt most likely will be at night, NASA said Thursday.
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One of the most powerful rockets ever constructed, a massive Boeing Co. Delta IV Heavy vehicle that is designed to be able to lift supersized military satellites into orbit, was successfully launched Tuesday at Cape Canaveral.
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The Leonid meteor shower will peak tonight. Sky-watchers say long, glowing meteor trails will highlight the heavenly show.