Delicate rescue saves stranded $1.7B US satellite

Saturday, March 17, 2012 - 10:00 in Physics & Chemistry

DENVER (AP) -- Air Force ground controllers last year successfully rescued a $1.7 billion military communications satellite that had been stranded in the wrong orbit and at risk of blowing up, possibly because some cloth had been left in a fuel line during manufacture....

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