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SpaceX Absorbs Financial Hit Due To Cape Infrastructure Anomaly, Shotwell Says

Pat Host

Wednesday, June 4th, 2014

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SpaceX Absorbs Financial Hit Due To Cape Infrastructure Anomaly, Shotwell Says

A Falcon 9 rocket.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) absorbed a financial hit due to a recent launch delay at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., a key executive said Wednesday. Issues with a tracking radar at Cape Canaveral has caused delays for both commercial and military launch customers. The Air Force’s launch of the National Reconnaissance Office’s (NRO) NROL-67 satellite was delayed 16 days from March 25 to April 10 because the tracking radar overheated. This also delayed SpaceX’s subsequent launch of Orbcomm’s…

Unmanned Systems

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Pentagon

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Congress

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Congress

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