Word: rockets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...Quickly, however, is the operative word. "The rocket launch market is one in which there are a number of options," says Kluger. "The heat is on both companies to find the root of the problem." Otherwise, each could see customers drift off to competitors such as the European Ariane rocket...
...good a reason as any to take one of the new gizmos for a test drive. My timing was perfect, since the battle of the e-books is beginning to heat up. You can't find them at Barnes & Noble yet, but barnesandnoble.com last week started selling NuvoMedia's Rocket eBook ($499). And Rocket's main competitor, SoftBook Press, is now selling its notebook-size device for $299--if you agree to buy $19.95 worth of books monthly for two years. Given the slim library currently available for the SoftBook (fewer than 139 titles), the purchase plan could...
...tried the Rocket eBook, which has a library of 486 books that can be downloaded from the Barnes & Noble website. The device can stand alone or sit in a cradle that attaches to your PC; your browser then becomes the way you find stuff to read--either books at B&N or websites whose content, images and all, can be downloaded free...
...more on the Rocket eBook, go to www.nuvomedia.com Any questions for Quittner? E-mail him at jquit@well.com