| Missile Warning Satellite Ready to Fly from Cape Canaveral A missile warning satellite will be launched into orbit on America's most powerful unpiloted rocket. Launch is now set for early Saturday. In coming years the satellite is likely to play a key role in the development and testing of any future missile defense scheme.
| The Genesis Project to Capture Solar Wind to Launch Monday
A robotic NASA explorer is poised to set sail Monday, July 30, on a mission to catch the solar wind and then return to Earth with a representative sampling of the primordial stuff that seeded the solar system. |