Nichols Martin
Northrop Grumman and NASA jointly aim to launch on Oct. 6 a space vehicle built to explore an atmospheric region where the weather conditions of Earth and space meet.
Ionospheric Connection Explorer will lift off aboard a Pegasus XL rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, according to a NASA blog article published Wednesday.
The ICON mission was targeted to launch June 14 at the Kwajalein Atoll in Marshall Islands.
Northrop has replaced a sensor after the company detected off-nominal data during the rocket’s ferry flight.
