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This expendable launch vehicle and
payload processing status will be issued weekly. It will provide
the status of upcoming NASA missions scheduled for launch aboard
expendable launch vehicles. For additional information on
NASA ELV launches, visit: http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/elvnew/elv.htm.
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| Mission |
NOAA-M Polar
Orbiter |
| Launch Vehicle |
USAF Titan
II |
| Launch Pad |
Space Launch
Complex 4 West, Vandenberg Air Force Base |
| Launch Date |
June 24, 2002 |
| Launch Window |
11:22
- 11:32
a.m. PDT |
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Status
(processing
notes)
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The
Titan II/G-14 prelaunch preparations continue to progress
on schedule. At SLC-4W, the launch vehicle was loaded
with its complement of fuel and oxidizer propellants
on Tuesday, June 18. Two major NASA pre-launch reviews
remain. They are the Flight Readiness Review on June
20 and the Launch Readiness Review on June 23. The Air
Force will also hold a Launch Readiness Review on June
21.
Last Friday, June 14, the launch vehicle Integrated
Systems Test (IST) was successfully completed. Like
the Combined Systems Test (CST) conducted May 22, this
involved both a simulated minus count and plus count,
however, the spacecraft was also part of this exercise,
electrically testing the vehicle/spacecraft combination
during the countdown and the in-flight events.
The encapsulation of the NOAA-M spacecraft into the
payload fairing was completed on June 10. A Mission
Dress Rehearsal for the launch team was conducted June
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CONTOUR
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| Mission |
Comet Nucleus Tour |
| Launch Vehicle |
Delta II 7425 |
| Launch Pad |
Space Launch Complex
17-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station |
| Launch Date |
July 1, 2002 |
| Launch Window |
2:56:14
- 2:56:20
a.m. EDT |
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Status
(processing
notes)
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The
CONTOUR spacecraft, mated to an upper stage booster, was transported
from SAEF-2 to Pad 17-A early this morning. The move began at 2:15
a.m. and the arrival at the pad occurred at 4:30 a.m. CONTOUR was
hoisted atop the Delta II at 7:50 a.m.
The mating of the spacecraft to the upper stage booster, or Delta
third stage, was performed at SAEF-2 on Monday, June 17.
The Flight Program Verification, a simulated flight test of the
launch vehicle and the integrated spacecraft, is scheduled for June
21. This combined composite electrical test and flight sequence
test will be the final major test prior to launch. The vehicle's
mechanical and electrical systems are to be actuated during the
simulated plus count.
The loading of CONTOUR with hydrazine fuel was completed on June
7 and
a "wet" spin balance test with fuel aboard was completed on June
11. A "dry" spin balance without fuel aboard was completed June
1.
In a summary of other launch vehicle preparations at Space Launch
Complex 17, erection of the Delta first stage booster was performed
on May 28. The solid rocket boosters were attached around the base
of the first stage on May 29. The launch vehicle second stage was
hoisted atop the first stage on May 31. The fairing was hoisted
into the mobile service tower's clean room on June 5. A Simulated
Flight test of the launch vehicle was conducted on June 13. A crew
certification exercise for the Boeing console operators who load
the liquid oxygen aboard the Delta first stage was performed on
Friday, June 14. This included a checkout of the liquid oxygen propulsion
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GALEX
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| Mission |
Galaxy
Evolution Explorer |
| Launch
Vehicle |
Pegasus
XL |
| Launch
Pad |
Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station |
| Launch
Date |
NET
August 14, 2002 |
| Launch
Time |
7:50
- 9:50
a.m. EDT |
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Status
(processing
notes)
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The
GALEX spacecraft is at the Orbital Space Systems Group facility
in Dulles, Virginia and undergoing final preparations before shipment
to KSC. The arrival date at KSC is under review.
Meanwhile, in California, the Pegasus launch vehicle continues processing
at Vandenberg Air Force Base. The second of four flight simulations
was successfully completed on June 17. Standard prelaunch preparations
are continuing on the vehicle nose fairing.
Arrival of the Pegasus XL at KSC is being planned to occur approximately
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