(WARNING: Actual space content) Does anybody know the status of the Delta IV launch scheduled for today? The main NASA site is mum.

"Scott Ferrin" wrote in message
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Where's the content?

Oh wait, you put it all in the subject line. :-)

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 14:19:38 -0700, Scott Ferrin
wrote:

The Florida Today website has been keeping a Delta 4 Heavy launch
journal. It has the latest news on the launch.

http://www.floridatoday.com/blogs/12...eavy/index.htm

http://www.floridatoday.com/news/space/index.htm


-Rusty

"Scott Ferrin" wrote in message
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No new date set yet. Bookmark "spaceflightnow.com", it's great - a better
source than the 45th Space Wing site I get on intranet at work. This should
be a great launch. Hopefully it'll go this week (so I can see it from KSC

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Scott Ferrin wrote:
[from the Subject header]
Does anybody know the status of the Delta IV launch scheduled for
today? The main NASA site is mum.

Uh, why would you check a NASA site for information about a Boeing rocket
with a USAF payload being launched from a USAF launch site? I don't
immediately see any NASA connection to this launch at all.
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Scott Ferrin wrote:

Does anybody know the status of the Delta IV launch scheduled for
today? The main NASA site is mum.


Status is here, always is !

http://www.arianespace.com

Adam

"adam bootle" wrote in message
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Scott Ferrin wrote:

Does anybody know the status of the Delta IV launch scheduled for
today? The main NASA site is mum.


Status is here, always is !

http://www.arianespace.com

Exactly where is the Delta IV launch on this site? And why would they cover
it on Arianespace.com

Adam

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 03:47:51 GMT, (Henry Spencer)
wrote:

In article ,
Scott Ferrin wrote:
[from the Subject header]
Does anybody know the status of the Delta IV launch scheduled for
today? The main NASA site is mum.

Uh, why would you check a NASA site for information about a Boeing rocket
with a USAF payload being launched from a USAF launch site? I don't
immediately see any NASA connection to this launch at all.


According to SpaceflightNow it's being launched from the Cape

SLC-37B, Cape Canaveral, Florida (When did SLC-37B become a strictly
USAF site?)

I'd have thought NASA would at least mention it.


However there IS an Atlas being launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station, Florida

SLC-37B, Cape Canaveral, Florida (When did SLC-37B become a strictly
USAF site?)

Complex 37 is on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, but I'm not
sure who actually owns it now (NASA used to). The SLC 37
Horizontal Integration Facility is owned by Florida Spaceport
Authority, as is all of SLC 41 - the Atlas V pad. Irregardless,
NASA-TV usually only shows NASA mission launches - even
if they are launched from DoD property - and DoD range
resources are used to support NASA shuttle launches, etc.
The Delta IV Heavy launch is funded by DoD. There will be a
Boeing web feed of the launch.

- Ed Kyle

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:40:04 -0700, wrote:


According to SpaceflightNow it's being launched from the Cape

SLC-37B, Cape Canaveral, Florida (When did SLC-37B become a strictly
USAF site?)

Probably circa 1970, when NASA abandoned it for good (officially going
with the milkstool to launch Saturn IBs from Kennedy Space Center.)

I'd have thought NASA would at least mention it.

There is no particular reason for them to do so. Although both the Air
Force and NASA have a presense on unmanned rockets launches, this is
mostly an overseeing and advisory role. Launch operations are largely
handled by the contractors, Boeing and Lockheed-Martin. If the payload
doesn't involve NASA, it is unlikely NASA will have any public
relations participation in the launch.

However there IS an Atlas being launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station, Florida

Bear in mind that "Cape Canaveral" and "Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station" are the same thing, more or less. NASA's facility is called
John F. Kennedy Space Center and is located on neighboring Merritt
Island.

Brian