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Posted on 09/08/2011 4:42:20 AM PDT by NonValueAdded
Cape Canaveral's final planned Delta 2 rocket launch is targeting an 8:37 a.m. EDT (1237 GMT) blastoff today to propel NASA's twin GRAIL lunar gravity mapping spacecraft on their trek to the Moon.
Men have walked on it and satellites have surveyed it from every angle, but another mission to the Moon launching this week seeks profound new insights about our nearest neighbor in the night sky.
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I know one of the principle designers of this mission. It’s really cool. Thanks for posting.
I dont get it.
We keep sending these things to fly around the moon. Why haven’t we sent a robotic rover to the surface? It could be operated in real-time for much longer than the ones we’ve sent to Mars.
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8:10 here just west of Port St. Lucie.
I’ll go out and get on the roof and watch it,
THANKS.
I’m real frosted about that one; what percentage of our fellow countrymen will think it is real?
Good question. Perhaps one of our readers knows what is planned. Perhaps a mission like that got squashed when the O-child abandoned the moon.
1212 GMT (8:12 a.m. EDT)
T-minus 15 minutes and counting. Countdown clocks are running again following the planned 20-minute hold. The count will continue to the T-minus 4 minute mark where another hold is scheduled. Launch remains set to occur at precisely 8:37:06 a.m. local (1237:06 GMT).
1209 GMT (8:09 a.m. EDT)
A poll of the launch team confirms everyone is ready to press ahead with the countdown after this pre-planned 20-minute hold.
1217 GMT (8:17 a.m. EDT)
Twenty minutes from launch. The GRAIL satellites will become the 225th and 226th primary payloads put into space by the venerable Delta 2 rocket over the past 22 years. Here’s a look at some other stats about today’s mission. This will be:
* The 356th Delta rocket launch since 1960
* The 232nd Delta launch with NASA involvement
* The 259th Delta launch from Complex 17
* The fifth Delta of 2011
* The 150th Delta 2 rocket mission since 1989
* The 49th Delta 2 mission overseen by NASA
* The 110th Delta 2 rocket to fly from Cape Canaveral
* The 48th Delta 2 launch from Cape’s pad 17B
* The 6th Delta 2 rocket to fly in ‘Heavy’ configuration
thanks!
I like the privately funded version for robot rovers.
http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/prize-details
upper level wins are red ... count will continue with a possible hold at T-2
winds, that is
A GRAIL????
BREAK ... winds still red, setting up for the second window
LOL
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