Word: delta
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...kinds of glitches seem to be cyclical," says TIME science senior writer Jeffrey Kluger. "They tend to happen in clusters for no apparent reason." The pedigree of both rockets suggests that company engineers should be able to work out the kinks of these latest models reasonably quickly. "Both the Delta III and the Titan IV come from an extraordinary family of rockets," says Kluger. "Earlier versions of the Titan were used to lift up the Gemini astronauts, and the earlier Deltas had one of the most superlative launch records...
...American rocketry up to it? Earlier this week, and for the third time in a month, a U.S. rocket failed to lift its satellite payload into the proper orbit. On Tuesday, the second-stage boosters failed on a Boeing-made Delta III; in April, two Lockheed Martin Titan IVs fell short of their target orbits. The mission cost of the latest Delta failure, an Orion communication satellite that wound up in a lopsided orbit, was $230 million. That is the kind of money satellite companies don?t generally like to see blast off into nothing...
...thrilled about the new Delta Upsilon colony at Harvard," said Phil Schott, director of chapter services at the organization's headquarters. "The men of the new Harvard chapter will have the full support of the fraternity and its undergraduate members...
...vote to approve a new Delta Upsilon colony marks the return of the fraternity to campus. Established at Harvard in the 1890s, the group broke with the national fraternity during World...
...establishment of the Harvard chapter of Delta Upsilon is an exciting opportunity for D.U. and for the men of the Harvard community," wrote Timothy Kutka, a member of the Delta Upsilon Undergraduate Advisory Board, in an email message yesterday...