IMPORTANT NOTE!!For those looking to attend this launch, I just received this from KSC VC (which may or may not have been published before, I certainly didn't know about this):Introducing the KSC Up-Close: Launch Control Center TourAre you go for Launch Control? Visitors can now enter inside the Launch Control Center. For the first time in more than 30 years, step inside Firing Room 4, one of the LCC's four firing rooms and the one in which all 21 shuttle launches since 2006 were controlled. Available for a limited time. Make your reservation today.
Looks like the somewhat confusingly-named "long payload fairing" (which is actually the shortest of the three Atlas V 400-series fairings.
That fits with previous SDS launches. Would appreciate if someone could check my analysis though.
Looks like the somewhat confusingly-named "long payload fairing" (which is actually the shortest of the three Atlas V 400-series fairings. That fits with previous SDS launches. Would appreciate if someone could check my analysis though.
WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.ROCKETS.1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 181220Z TO 181413Z JUN,ALTERNATE 191220Z TO 191430Z AND201220Z TO 201413Z JUN IN AREAS BOUND BY:A. 28-36N 080-36W, 28-37N 080-33W,28-35N 080-26W, 28-31N 080-08W,28-29N 080-08W, 28-34N 080-35W.B. 24-33N 060-15W, 22-32N 054-34W,20-59N 055-03W, 23-22N 060-55W.2. CANCEL THIS MSG 201513Z JUN.
Still can't get over that mission symbol.
Quote from: FinalFrontier on 06/16/2012 05:24 pmStill can't get over that mission symbol. Another rollout of another rocket with a payload that we can't see, or know anything about. This is what a substantial percentage of U.S. launches look like now. It could be something monumental inside that fairing, something spectacular and impressive and really, really expensive, or it could be mundane, or it could be another Glomar Explorer waste of money, but we'll never know. We should know, at least something, in my opinion. It's our money after all (speaking for U.S. citizens). And this is pretty much our space program now. - Ed Kyle