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Coming second is Globalstar's chief drawback. Its service is not scheduled to kick off until 1999--a year behind Iridium's schedule. And this month Globalstar ran into a potentially more serious snag. Minutes after a Ukrainian-built Zenit-2 rocket carrying 12 Globalstar satellites thundered skyward from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sept. 10, its engine failed. The 460-ton rocket fell back to Earth, showering debris across southern Siberia and driving Globalstar's stock down 40% overnight. The $190 million payload was covered by insurance, but the disaster delayed the system's debut even further...
Much to Schaeffer's dismay, not one but two Crimson scoring threats, in the form of Foster and junior midfielder Ashley Berman, were waiting on the weak side to field the rebound. Berman struck first, bouncing a second rocket off the body of the beleaguered Schaeffer...
Making Cold War was a formidable task, requiring a team of about 50 people who compiled 1,100 hours of archival film and conducted some 900 hours of interviews. The effort was rewarded in finds like footage of a rocket exploding on its launch site in Siberia. KGB film was obtained showing the arrest of CIA agents named by Aldrich Ames, and these are some of the most startling scenes in the series. Finding interview subjects was also arduous. Senior researcher Svetlana Palmer tracked down some people from old books that mentioned heroes of socialist labor. Then...
...quirky leader, Kim Jong Il: he knows how to get the world's attention. Early last week, a powerful new missile lifted off from a secret base on North Korea's eastern coast and streaked toward Japan. Dumping its first stage off the western coast of Japan, the rocket sped high over the country and plunked down into the Pacific Ocean. But it packed a political wallop that resounded in capitals from Tokyo to Washington. The message: North Korea may be broke and short of food, but the Stalinist state has a dangerous...
Still, the Taepo Dong-1 should help to refocus the thinking of policymakers in Washington. It is light-years ahead of its predecessor, the Nodong-1, a one-stage rocket with a range of up to 620 miles. Multiple-stage vehicles require expertise in guidance systems and other tricky technology. Thus last week's launch means the North is a step closer to building intercontinental ballistic missiles that could reach the mainland U.S., according to Richard Speier, a Carnegie Foundation consultant and former missile proliferation expert at the Pentagon...