1.   Royal Ordnance would not discuss likely buyers for the new rocket which could go into production next year.

2.   And for the second time in eight months, Boeing was forced to appoint a team of investigators to determine why its powerful new rocket malfunctioned.

3.   And last year, Lockheed said it would use Russian engines on its new Atlas rockets.

4.   And Panamsat was ready to be the extraterrestrial guinea pig, because it wants to encourage the development of new rockets.

5.   Another study is looking at how to develop a new rocket fuel using solid hydrogen and other light fuels with high energy output.

6.   Both contractors selected the same new rocket to launch their satellites, the Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle.

7.   A ground team of a few dozen people could prepare, launch and fly the new rocket instead of the hundreds required by the shuttle.

8.   But after meeting Dace and Vaughn Cordel, the commercial airline pilot who has signed on to pilot the new rocket, Hermes became convinced.

9.   Caceres said he expects the high failure rate of new rockets to continue.

10.   By late Friday night, however, there were no new rockets fired at northern Israel by the Party of God, or Hezbollah, guerrillas in southern Lebanon.