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To: Jack Hydrazine

Good going SpaceX!!!

The next launch will be an Atlas 5 this Thursday night, early Friday morning.

Atlas 5 launch set for Thursday night
An Atlas 5 rocket is scheduled to launch a classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office on Thursday, and the preliminary forecast shows cold temperatures at the California launch site will be the only weather concern.

Rocket: Atlas 5
Variant: AV-501
Payload: NROL-39
Date: Dec. 6, 2013
Time: 0713 GMT (2:13 a.m. EST; 11:13 p.m. PST/local on 5th)
Site: SLC-3E, Vandenberg AFB, California

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av043/status.html


70 posted on 12/03/2013 3:31:14 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

The next Falcon 9 launch is scheduled for Friday, 20DEC2013.

Launch time: TBD
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Thaicom 6 communications satellite. Thaicom 6 will provide C-band and Ku-band communications services across Southeast Asia and Africa. The rocket will fly in the Falcon 9 v1.1 configuration with upgraded Merlin 1D engines, stretched fuel tanks, and a payload fairing.


Around next February (probably later) SpaceX will launch their Falcon 9R (re-usable) rocket.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reusable_Falcon_9

List of upcoming Falcon 9 launches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_launches


73 posted on 12/03/2013 3:39:56 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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