ORBITAL'S LAUNCH OF ITS TAURUS ROCKET POSTPONED
(Dulles, VA 26 February 2000) -- Orbital's launch of its Taurus rocket has been delayed pending the resolution of a down-range issue related to the planned trajectory of the rocket. The launch will be rescheduled for a date no earlier than Saturday, March 4, 2000.
Onboard the Taurus rocket is the Department of Energy's Multispectral Thermal Imager (MTI) satellite, which carries a sophisticated telescope that will collect images of the Earth, during the day and at night, in 15 spectral bands ranging from visible to long-wave infrared. It will give the MTI satellite the ability to 'see" reflected and thermally radiated electromagnetic waves not visible to the human eye with performance parameters previously achievable only in laboratory settings.
Contact: Barron Beneski, 7034065000, beneski.barron@orbital.com
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