Jacques van Oene
August 1st 05, 05:38 PM
Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-3749)
George H. Diller
Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla.
(Phone: 321/867-2468)
August 1, 2005
NASA EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE STATUS REPORT: E05-008
Mission: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Launch Vehicle: Lockheed Martin Atlas V 401
Launch Pad: Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41), Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station
Launch Date: August 10, 2005
Launch Window: 7:54 - 9:39 a.m. EDT
The MRO spacecraft has been mated with the Atlas V for
the last phase of launch preparations. This will be the
first government civil launch of an Atlas V. The launch
vehicle will perform an Integrated Systems Test (IST) later
today to verify electrical compatibility. The final stages
of the launch campaign begin with the Flight Readiness
Review on Aug. 4, and the Launch Readiness Review is Aug.
8.
Mission: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder
Satellite Observation and CloudSat (CALIPSO/CloudSat)
Launch Vehicle: Boeing Delta II 7420 DPAF
Launch Pad: Space Launch Complex 2 (SLC2), Vandenberg Air
Force Base (VAFB), Calif.
Launch Date: September 29, 2005
The CloudSat team returns to VAFB later today to begin
battery reconditioning. The CALIPSO team returns to VAFB
August 8 for launch processing.
Previous status reports are available on the Web at:
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/
status/2005
For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web,
visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-3749)
George H. Diller
Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla.
(Phone: 321/867-2468)
August 1, 2005
NASA EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE STATUS REPORT: E05-008
Mission: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Launch Vehicle: Lockheed Martin Atlas V 401
Launch Pad: Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41), Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station
Launch Date: August 10, 2005
Launch Window: 7:54 - 9:39 a.m. EDT
The MRO spacecraft has been mated with the Atlas V for
the last phase of launch preparations. This will be the
first government civil launch of an Atlas V. The launch
vehicle will perform an Integrated Systems Test (IST) later
today to verify electrical compatibility. The final stages
of the launch campaign begin with the Flight Readiness
Review on Aug. 4, and the Launch Readiness Review is Aug.
8.
Mission: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder
Satellite Observation and CloudSat (CALIPSO/CloudSat)
Launch Vehicle: Boeing Delta II 7420 DPAF
Launch Pad: Space Launch Complex 2 (SLC2), Vandenberg Air
Force Base (VAFB), Calif.
Launch Date: September 29, 2005
The CloudSat team returns to VAFB later today to begin
battery reconditioning. The CALIPSO team returns to VAFB
August 8 for launch processing.
Previous status reports are available on the Web at:
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/
status/2005
For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web,
visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html
-end-
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info