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 Feb 23 2006, 06:14 PM
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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 25 2006, 11:04 PM
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"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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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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ljk4-1 Goes Weather Satellites Feb 23 2006, 06:14 PM
ljk4-1 NOAA Weather Satellite Launch Set For Wednesday
h... May 22 2006, 03:51 PM ljk4-1 BOEING DELTA 4 ROCKET POISED TO LAUNCH TODAY
-----... May 24 2006, 07:35 PM BruceMoomaw The launch was successful. It appears that the ov... May 24 2006, 11:54 PM djellison As it left the pad, I noticed how 'singed... May 25 2006, 06:46 AM Jim from NSF.com xxx
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Sunspot QUOTE (Jim from NSF.com @ May 25 2006, 02... May 25 2006, 05:02 PM Jim from NSF.com QUOTE (Sunspot @ May 25 2006, 01:02 PM) ... May 25 2006, 07:00 PM BPCooper QUOTE (ugordan @ May 30 2006, 04:11 AM) A... May 30 2006, 05:00 PM ljk4-1 Advanced Weather Satellite GOES-N Launches - More ... May 31 2006, 06:01 PM |
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