Shuttle launch on for Wednesday; LRO pushed back.

LRO launch now scheduled for Friday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/scien...13466120090614
They apparently never did figure out what caused the hydrogen leak on
the earlier flight that led to the launch delay, which makes this
reoccurance worrying...as something odd is going on that they don't
understand the cause of.

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
LRO launch now scheduled for Friday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/scien...13466120090614
They apparently never did figure out what caused the hydrogen leak on
the earlier flight that led to the launch delay, which makes this
reoccurance worrying...as something odd is going on that they don't
understand the cause of.

Now Shuttle is scheduled for Thursday:
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42838/184/
Assuming the two-day reconfiguring time between launches holds, that
means LRO would go up on Saturday at the earliest, and that's the last
day in its launch window till the end of the month.
There's some photos of them working on the ET he
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19514_3-10264438-239.html


Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:


Pat Flannery wrote:
LRO launch now scheduled for Friday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/scien...13466120090614
They apparently never did figure out what caused the hydrogen leak on
the earlier flight that led to the launch delay, which makes this
reoccurance worrying...as something odd is going on that they don't
understand the cause of.

Now Shuttle is scheduled for Thursday:
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42838/184/
Assuming the two-day reconfiguring time between launches holds, that
means LRO would go up on Saturday at the earliest, and that's the last
day in its launch window till the end of the month.
There's some photos of them working on the ET he
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19514_3-10264438-239.html

Now it's back to Wednesday again:
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts127/090615newdate/

Pat