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| Mission |
High Energy
Solar Spectroscopic Imager |
| Launch Vehicle |
Orbital Sciences
Pegasus XL |
| Current Location |
Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station |
| Launch Date |
Feb. 5, 2002 |
| Launch Window |
3:21
- 5:21
p.m. EST (T-0: 3:26
p.m.) |
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On
January 28 at a follow-up Flight Readiness Review, NASA
and Orbital Sciences cleared the Pegasus XL launch vehicle
for flight. Approximately twenty days of data analysis
and reviews were conducted of hardware commonality between
the Pegasus XL booster and the National Missile Defense
BV-3 booster that failed during launch at Vandenberg
Air Force Base (VAFB) in December. The launch of Pegasus/HESSI
is now firmly scheduled for Feb. 5 at 3:26 p.m.
At VAFB, mating of the Pegasus to the L-1011 occurred
yesterday, Jan. 29, and the ferry flight to KSC will
occur on Feb. 1. The touchdown at the Skid Strip on
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is anticipated to occur
in the late afternoon. A launch countdown dress rehearsal
with the launch team will then be held on Saturday,
Feb. 2. A Combined Systems Test (CST), an integrated
test for the L-1011 and the Pegasus, will be held on
Sunday, Feb. 3.
The Orbital Sciences L-1011 aircraft carrying the 3-stage
Pegasus booster is scheduled to depart for launch at
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| Mission |
Tracking
and Data Relay Satellite-I |
| Launch
Vehicle |
Lockheed
Martin Atlas IIA (AC-143) |
| Launch
Pad |
Launch
Complex 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station |
| Launch
Date |
March
8, 2002 |
| Launch
Window |
5:39
- 6:19
p.m. EST |
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Status
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The
TDRS-I spacecraft is anticipated to arrive aboard a C-17 air
cargo plane at the Shuttle Landing Facility on Saturday morning.
The satellite is being shipped from the Boeing Satellite Systems
plant in El Segundo, Calif. It will be taken to the SAEF-2
spacecraft processing facility at KSC for three weeks of final
checkout, fueling and encapsulation into the Atlas payload
fairing.
At Pad A on Space Launch Complex 36, no significant Atlas
vehicle processing activity is scheduled this week and the
vehicle is awaiting the arrival of the spacecraft on or about
Feb. 25. |
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| Mission |
Earth Observing
System Aqua Observatory |
| Launch Vehicle |
Delta II 7920-10L |
| Launch Pad |
Space Launch
Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base |
| Launch Date |
NET April
2002 |
| Launch Window |
1:54:50
- 2:04:50
p.m. PST |
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Status
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Aqua
spacecraft testing is continuing at the TRW plant in
Redondo Beach, Calif. The spacecraft is currently planned
to be shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base on Feb. 22.
The erection of the Boeing Delta II launch vehicle on
the pad at Space Launch Complex 2 is planned to begin
on or about Feb. 21. The Boeing review to assess readiness
of the vehicle and the launch pad for that activity
is scheduled for Feb. 19 in Huntington Beach, Calif.
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