The launch of the Delta IV rocket carrying the satellite had been scheduled for Friday, but was scrubbed at the last minute due to weather conditions at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

该卫星携带的德尔塔iv火箭发射已定于星期五，但在最后一分钟时，由于天气卡纳维拉尔角空军基地的条件在美国佛罗里达州擦洗。

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So Ted Stevens may have saved my life and that was something a great many Alaskans could say as they looked about at the roads and bridges, the hospitals and flood-control systems, the satellite weather and global-positioning relay stations, the sprawling Army and Air Force bases, the rural landing strips and postal air-cargo flights that sustain existence in Alaska as it enters its fiftieth year of statehood.

NEWYORKER: The State of Sarah Palin