Air Force sending GPS satellite back to factory to check for rain damage.

ALL WET: U.S. Air Force managers plan to ship a Global Positioning System satellite back to the factory before the end of the month so it can be disassembled and tested for damage it might have suffered in a heavy rainstorm at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla., in May. The GPS Block IIR-3 spacecraft...

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