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The Soviets have had their share of blunders to rival the U.S.'s DIVAD, an antiaircraft weapon that was scrapped in 1985 after a $1.8 billion development outlay. Moscow pushed ahead with its ZSU-30-2, a DIVAD counterpart, but despite a decade of improvements, the weapon's radar guidance...
He said the propellants would be drained from the fuel tank, and the igniters in each engine would have to be replaced before another attempt.
"We had just got up to the point of main engine start," Harris said.
Harris said the computer "did not see that the engine bleed valve had fully closed." He said engineers were trying to determine if there was a faulty valve or if the sensor had given an incorrect reading.
The mission is scheduled for late September, but even before yesterday many officials believed the launch would slip into October because of earlier delays in the engine test and an unresolved gas leak in a steering engine system that is separate from the main engines.