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Multiple Launches Are Scheduled

By Staff Writer | July 24, 2006

      Myriad launches are keeping launch pads busy, according to announcements:

      In mid-July, there will be a missile defense test involving the Theater High-Altitude Area Defense system.

      No sooner than Aug. 20, NASA will launch the STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) spacecraft from Cape Canaveral using a Boeing Delta II lifter.

      In 2009, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] will launch the Mars Science Laboratory on an Atlas V 541 from Cape Canaveral.