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'Fine Layer of Dust' Halts CONTOUR Launch Prepara
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'Fine Layer of Dust' Halts CONTOUR Launch Prepara# Astronomy - 天文
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By Brian Berger
Space News Staff Writer
posted: 12:23 pm ET
28 June 2002
WASHINGTON — The discovery of dust on the solar array panels of the Comet
Nucleus Tour spacecraft Thursday prompted officials to halt preparations for
the planned July 1 launch of the comet-bound NASA vehicle.
The launch has been postponed to no earlier than July 3 while the mission
team investigates what is on the solar array and how it got there.
The spacecraft, called CONTOUR for short, is an eight-sided spacecraft built
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