Secretary of Commerce Ronald Brown is among the people killed when the 76th Airlift Squadron CT-43 transport airplane in which he is a passenger crashes into a hillside near Dubrovnik, Croatia. Secretary Brown had been on an economic-development mission to Serbia.
The Space Development Agency is set to launch 21 Tranche 1 data transport satellites on Oct. 5—its fourth Tranche 1 mission since last fall and the first to carry Northrop Grumman-built satellites.