It is to be put into a 22,300-mile-high orbit on Sunday.
With a sling, I might be able to put a small one into orbit.
Then controllers could again try to put it into orbit.
Nor did one put shrapnel into orbit around the base.
At the time, the United States had not yet put a man into orbit.
L-Star 2 was to be put into orbit in 1999.
The government announced its intention to put the country's first military satellite into orbit in three years.
Officials had previously said they did not expect to put an astronaut into orbit until 2005.
It is capable of putting a 100-ton space shuttle into orbit.
It takes thousands of calculations to put a rocket into orbit.