QuoteMINUTEMAN III TEST LAUNCH SHOWCASES READINESS OF U.S. NUCLEAR FORCES SAFE, EFFECTIVE DETERRENTBy Air Force Global Strike Command Public Affairs / Published August 11, 2021BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. --Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a test re-entry vehicle from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California Aug. 11 at 12:53 a.m. Pacific Time to demonstrate the readiness of U.S. nuclear forces and provide confidence in the lethality and effectiveness of the nations nuclear deterrent. This launch involved a Hi Fidelity Joint Test Assembly re-entry vehicle that detonated conventional (i.e. non-nuclear) explosives prior to hitting the surface of the water approximately 4,200 miles downrange near Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. These test launches verify the accuracy and reliability of the ICBM weapon system, providing valuable data to ensure a continued safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrent.Finally launched after several months of delays.https://www.afgsc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2727050/minuteman-iii-test-launch-showcases-readiness-of-us-nuclear-forces-safe-effecti/
MINUTEMAN III TEST LAUNCH SHOWCASES READINESS OF U.S. NUCLEAR FORCES SAFE, EFFECTIVE DETERRENTBy Air Force Global Strike Command Public Affairs / Published August 11, 2021BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. --Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a test re-entry vehicle from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California Aug. 11 at 12:53 a.m. Pacific Time to demonstrate the readiness of U.S. nuclear forces and provide confidence in the lethality and effectiveness of the nations nuclear deterrent. This launch involved a Hi Fidelity Joint Test Assembly re-entry vehicle that detonated conventional (i.e. non-nuclear) explosives prior to hitting the surface of the water approximately 4,200 miles downrange near Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. These test launches verify the accuracy and reliability of the ICBM weapon system, providing valuable data to ensure a continued safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrent.
Cross-post:Quote from: Yiosie on 08/11/2021 06:44 pmQuoteMINUTEMAN III TEST LAUNCH SHOWCASES READINESS OF U.S. NUCLEAR FORCES SAFE, EFFECTIVE DETERRENTBy Air Force Global Strike Command Public Affairs / Published August 11, 2021BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. --Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a test re-entry vehicle from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California Aug. 11 at 12:53 a.m. Pacific Time to demonstrate the readiness of U.S. nuclear forces and provide confidence in the lethality and effectiveness of the nations nuclear deterrent. This launch involved a Hi Fidelity Joint Test Assembly re-entry vehicle that detonated conventional (i.e. non-nuclear) explosives prior to hitting the surface of the water approximately 4,200 miles downrange near Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. These test launches verify the accuracy and reliability of the ICBM weapon system, providing valuable data to ensure a continued safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrent.Finally launched after several months of delays.https://www.afgsc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2727050/minuteman-iii-test-launch-showcases-readiness-of-us-nuclear-forces-safe-effecti/
This rocket launch on 2021-09-09 from White Sands Missile Range carried a copy of the Solar Dynamics Observatory Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (SDO/EVE) instrument. SDO/EVE has been in geosynchronous orbit since 2010; it's a flagship NASA solar mission staring at the Sun 24/7. That causes the instruments to degrade over time, so every ~2 years we fly this copy of the instrument that otherwise stays in our clean lab in order to see how intense the Sun _should_ be at each wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light between ~6-106 nm. We compare that with the SDO/EVE instrument on orbit and can correct the data to remove the degradation. And since we're going up anyway, we put a whole bunch of other instruments in the rocket payload. Several of those were literally built at home, in garages, and finishing touches in our professional lab at the University of Colorado Boulder Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. This flight included instruments called SPA-X-ray Sensor (XRS), SPA-Occultation Wave Limb Sounder (OWLS), and Dual-zone Aperture X-ray Solar Spectrometer (DAXSS). This ~2.5-minute cut shows most of the interesting stuff that happened during this 16-minute flight, plus some fun things when the team arrived to recover it after landing, and finally what the Sun looked like in one of the extreme ultraviolet wavelengths we observed (taken from SDO / Atmospheric Imaging Assembly) and a snapshot of the EVE data from the flight.
Sounding rocket launched at WFF wirėth the HOTShot mission. Exact lift-off time, according to the live feed, was 22:07:20 UTC.https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops/status/1436838733748314114
22:07:30 UTC, actually.
That's .... October the 8th.
UP Aerospace successfully launched a SpaceLoft-XL suborbital rocket (serial number SL-16) on August 11 carrying the ReDX-1 mission for the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
