The tether and satellite flew away from the shuttle at a speed of about a hundred miles an hour, prematurely ending the nearly $450 million experiment.

Pitched overhand into the darkness, the candlestick turns end over end, silent the way you imagine satellites fly.

The satellites will fly over Earth's poles, providing data needed for short-term forecasts.

But it says that if Saturday's test is successful, two future military satellites will fly aboard Delta 4 rockets.

In a polar orbit, the satellite generally flies at a low altitude and passes over the planet's poles on each revolution.

So naturally all those satellites are just flying along there like nothing happened.

To increase resolution, the satellite will fly in an unusually low orbit.

Work at the test site in the desert southwest of New Delhi was suspended whenever an American satellite flew overhead.

Contact is broken and the satellite flies away.

The satellite flies over the north pole every 98 minutes.