Software Problem Sets Back SBSS Launch

By Michael Mecham

It will be at least a month before verification of revised sequencing software for the Orbital Sciences Minotaur IV rocket will be in place and a new launch date can be set for the Boeing Space-Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) System satellite from Vandenberg AFB, Calif.

The SBSS mission was set for July 8 but scrubbed when “rigorous and significant testing to ferret out remote ...

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