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Commercial and US Government Launch Vehicles => ULA - Delta, Atlas, Vulcan => Topic started by: zaitcev on 04/21/2011 02:19 am

Title: Delta II - NPP - October 25, 2011
Post by: zaitcev on 04/21/2011 02:19 am

I was compulsively reloading Ed Kyle's site and noticed that the red number of remaining Delta II flights went from 2 to 3. Comparing the threads in the forum with his forecast, I deduce that the payload is called "NPP". So yeah... Here's a thread.

Links:
http://jointmission.gsfc.nasa.gov/launch.html

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The NPP satellite will be launched from the Western Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base from SLC-2, California, by a Boeing Delta II-7920-10 launch vehicle.

The NPP mission will be launched into a 824 km circular, sun-synchronous polar orbit with a 1:30 p.m. local-time ascending node crossing.

Title: Re: Delta II - NPP - October 25, 2011
Post by: zaitcev on 08/06/2011 01:07 am

Link to jacqmans' thread:

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=26122.0

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The payload fairing was hoisted into the mobile service tower on July
19 where it will be stored until the NPP spacecraft arrives at the
pad in October.