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WEATHER SATELLITE LEAVES LAUNCH PAD FOR HEALTH CHECK
---------------------------------------------------- After spending eight months on the launch pad, the newest U.S. weather observatory has been detached from its Delta 4 rocket booster and returned to the hangar for precautionary health checks before liftoff is attempted again. http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0602/22goesndestack/ LOCKHEED GETS LIGHTNING MAPPER CONTRACT --------------------------------------- The Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center has been awarded a $2 million, 12-month contract by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to proceed to the formulation phase for the Geostationary Lightning Mapper instrument that will fly on NOAA GOES-R Series environmental satellites. http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0602/22goesr/ -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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May 22 2006, 03:51 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
NOAA Weather Satellite Launch Set For Wednesday
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NOAA_Wea..._Wednesday.html Cape Canaveral Air Force Station FL (SPX) May 21, 2006 - NASA has announced it will launch NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-N on Wednesday, May 24. GOES-N, designed to provide faster environmental and weather information to meteorologists and the public, is scheduled to lift off from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. - Lockheed Martin Solar X-Ray Imager Set For NOAA GOES-N Spacecraft http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Lockheed...Spacecraft.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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May 24 2006, 07:35 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
BOEING DELTA 4 ROCKET POISED TO LAUNCH TODAY
-------------------------------------------- The countdown is underway for today's launch of the GOES-N weather observatory aboard a Boeing Delta 4 rocket. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral is targeted for 6:11 p.m. EDT (2211 GMT). http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d315/status.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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May 24 2006, 11:54 PM
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The launch was successful. It appears that the overall Delta 4 program is back in business:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/delta/d315/status.html |
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May 25 2006, 06:46 AM
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As it left the pad, I noticed how 'singed' all the first stage insulation looked - more than half the height of the first stage was brown and black. Because of the GEM's - one couldn't really see if the insulation around the base of the first stage was burning as it did with an earlier Delta IV however.
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May 25 2006, 01:45 PM
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May 25 2006, 05:02 PM
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QUOTE (Jim from NSF.com @ May 25 2006, 02:45 PM)  xxx xxx  I take it that's not supposed to happen
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May 25 2006, 07:00 PM
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QUOTE (Sunspot @ May 25 2006, 01:02 PM) I take it that's not supposed to happen What is not suppose to happen? The singeing? It is an artifact of the RS-68 start sequence and the design of the vehicle takes this into account |
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May 25 2006, 11:04 PM
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-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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May 29 2006, 07:40 AM
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QUOTE (lyford @ May 26 2006, 12:04 AM) The Delta Heavy launch showed something similiar. That's one of the more spectacular launches I've seen (not live, though). The weather and lighting conditions were simply perfect, I only wish I had a copy of the launch in better quality than the choppy archived webcast on Boeing's site. It doesn't do justice to this beast at all! -------------------- |
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May 29 2006, 08:38 PM
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QUOTE (ugordan @ May 29 2006, 03:40 AM) That's one of the more spectacular launches I've seen (not live, though). The weather and lighting conditions were simply perfect, I only wish I had a copy of the launch in better quality than the choppy archived webcast on Boeing's site. It doesn't do justice to this beast at all! Well, I thought I had a better quality video if it, but after seeing the Boeing version now the resolution is not much different. I've PMed you should you want it. I posted my GOES launch photos on my website for those interested, too. -------------------- |
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May 30 2006, 08:11 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
QUOTE (BPCooper @ May 29 2006, 09:38 PM) I posted my GOES launch photos on my website for those interested, too. As usual, great images! You're using digital cameras at the pad, right? It's fascinating the vibrations don't tear apart such delicate instruments, do you tend to lose any of them due to shocking effects alone? Makes me wonder what dB levels the rumble is right next to the pad? -------------------- |
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May 30 2006, 05:00 PM
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QUOTE (ugordan @ May 30 2006, 04:11 AM) As usual, great images! You're using digital cameras at the pad, right? It's fascinating the vibrations don't tear apart such delicate instruments, do you tend to lose any of them due to shocking effects alone? Makes me wonder what dB levels the rumble is right next to the pad? I use film and digital. Decibel levels are 180-200 within a short distance of the pad. According to the national institude on (I forget what it's called, but they have the 'official' noise levels chart online somewhere) they are second only to large bombs in noise level as measured from the same distance. -------------------- |
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May 31 2006, 06:01 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Advanced Weather Satellite GOES-N Launches - More photos:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/...p3?img_id=17288 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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