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Space industry grapples with COVID-19-related oxygen fuel shortage

8 September 2021

A pandemic-related shortage of a key rocket propellant, liquid oxygen, could force rocket launches to be postponed in coming months, possibly delaying important scientific and national defense missions, industry observers said. NASA has pushed back the launch of its Landsat 9 climate and land use satellite from California one week to 23 September because of delivery problems.







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