PARIS — Satellite and rocket manufacturer Orbital Sciences Corp. expects by the end of April to have a firm grasp of what caused the March 4 failure of its Taurus XL rocket’s fairing to separate, resulting in the loss of a $424 million NASA climate-observation satellite in the second consecutive fairing-related failure of the rocket in two years, Orbital officials said April 21.
Peter B. de Selding was the Paris Bureau Chief for SpaceNews. More by Peter B. de Selding
