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8 posted on 05/24/2006 7:44:29 PM PDT by KevinDavis (http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
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There's another Delta launch today.

http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d316/status.html

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2006
1435 GMT (10:35 a.m. EDT)

The wheeled service tower has been driven back at pad 17A, revealing the Boeing Delta 2 rocket for blastoff at 5:34 p.m. EDT (2134 GMT) today carrying the U.S. military's Micro-Satellite Technology Experiment.
The gantry was used to stack the multi-stage vehicle atop the pad's launch mount, attach the nine strap-on solid motors and hoist the payloads aboard the rocket. The tower also provided the primary weather protection and worker access to the rocket during its stay on the oceanside complex at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
The next several hours will be spent putting the final touches on the vehicle, configuring launch pad equipment and securing the complex.
The Terminal Countdown begins at 2:54 p.m. EDT, followed about 20 minutes later by fueling the first stage with kerosene propellant. Liquid oxygen starts flowing into the first stage just after 4 p.m.




Might be interesting since tiny satellites are the kind the amateurs such as Rutan would launch.


9 posted on 06/21/2006 7:48:33 AM PDT by RightWhale (Off touch and out of base)
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