Launch Of CU Satellite Project Delayed
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The launch of an Atlas rocket carrying a University of Colorado experiment has been delayed.
Friday's planned launch was set back at least 24 hours after a communications problem with the rocket.
The CU project measuring the Earth's radiation belts is part of a larger mission to measure space weather.
CU professor Daniel Baker says radiation poses one of the greatest risks for orbiting spacecraft.
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