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Offline Chris Bergin

NASA's CloudSat and CALIPSO Launch Rescheduled

The launch of NASA's CloudSat and CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations) satellites is rescheduled for Saturday, April 22. Launch is set for 6:02 a.m. EDT from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Launch commentary on NASA TV starts at 4 a.m. EDT.


Today's launch was scrubbed at T-48 seconds due to loss of the primary and backup phone communications between the Mission Directors Center at Vandenberg and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales Space Command in Toulouse, France. The communications loss is being evaluated.
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RE: LIVE: Delta 2 - CloudSat and CALIPSO - April 22
« Reply #1 on: 04/21/2006 03:59 pm »
Thanks for the update thread and video on the scrub. Don't feel so bad for missing it now ;)

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RE: LIVE: Delta 2 - CloudSat and CALIPSO - April 22
« Reply #2 on: 04/21/2006 11:10 pm »
Spaceflightnow.com reports a scrub for Saturday's launch attempt, no details yet: http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d314a/status.html
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RE: LIVE: Delta 2 - CloudSat and CALIPSO - April 22
« Reply #3 on: 04/21/2006 11:32 pm »
NASA's CloudSat page now reports launch date being April 23: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cloudsat/main/index.html
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RE: LIVE: Delta 2 - CloudSat and CALIPSO - April 22
« Reply #4 on: 04/21/2006 11:41 pm »
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Spaceflightnow.com reports a scrub for Saturday's launch attempt, no details yet: http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d314a/status.html

We have the details.

Sources note it's because of the unavailability of the instrumentation aircraft.
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RE: LIVE: Delta 2 - CloudSat and CALIPSO - April 22
« Reply #5 on: 04/21/2006 11:43 pm »
The P3 aircraft? Has it been assigned to other duties on Saturday?
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RE: LIVE: Delta 2 - CloudSat and CALIPSO - April 22
« Reply #6 on: 04/21/2006 11:44 pm »
It would appear so..but I know our info that it is because of this is good.
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RE: LIVE: Delta 2 - CloudSat and CALIPSO - April 22
« Reply #7 on: 04/22/2006 07:18 am »
I suppose we could just cut back this thread and change it to Sunday?

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RE: POSTPONED: Delta 2 - CloudSat and CALIPSO - April 22
« Reply #8 on: 04/22/2006 01:17 pm »
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DaveS - 21/4/2006  7:43 PMThe P3 aircraft? Has it been assigned to other duties on Saturday?

not the P3

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