DocM Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 (edited) Launch date: November 29, 2018 Launch time:TBA PAD: SLC-6, Vandenberg AFB Stage recovery: are you joking? 🙃 Payload: KH-11 #17 (Block V) Yup, a KH-11 - the spy satellite Hubble is based on. Edited October 22, 2018 by DocM Draggendrop 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggendrop Veteran Posted October 23, 2018 Veteran Share Posted October 23, 2018 I have a hunch that this is the one causing "issues" at Vandy, for the prior launch windows...reference SpaceX landing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 Yup - they don't want an incoming booster with a $multi-B KH-11 on the pad. Draggendrop and Unobscured Vision 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggendrop Veteran Posted October 23, 2018 Veteran Share Posted October 23, 2018 No sense of adventure....😎 Unobscured Vision and DocM 1 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggendrop Veteran Posted December 9, 2018 Veteran Share Posted December 9, 2018 Live coverage: ULA’s heavy-lift rocket set for liftoff Saturday night in California Quote ULA’s live video coverage of the Delta 4 launch will begin at 7:46 p.m. PST on Dec. 7 (10:46 p.m. EST; 0346 GMT). Quote Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket with the National Reconnaissance Office’s NROL-71 payload. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/07/delta-382-mission-status-center/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggendrop Veteran Posted December 9, 2018 Veteran Share Posted December 9, 2018 had a launch delay...back on track...so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Draggendrop Veteran Posted December 9, 2018 Veteran Share Posted December 9, 2018 Photos: Delta 4-Heavy poised for launch with U.S. spy satellite Quote A United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket stands 233 feet (71 meters) tall at Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, ready for liftoff Saturday night carrying a top secret U.S. government spy satellite into orbit. The triple-core rocket measures 53 feet (16 meters) wide with its three first stage boosters bolted together. Fully fueled for launch with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, the Delta 4-Heavy will weigh 1.6 million pounds. Its three first stage Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-68A main engines will produce 2.1 million pounds at full thrust. Saturday’s launch is set for 8:15 p.m. PST (11:15 p.m. PST; 0415 GMT Sunday night) from the SLC-6 launch pad, a facility originally developed in the 1960s for the U.S. Air Force’s canceled Manned Orbiting Laboratory program, then modified as a West Coast launch site for the space shuttle, before those plans were scrapped. Work to prepare the SLC-6 launch pad — with its fixed umbilical tower, mobile service tower and mobile assembly shelter structures — for the Delta 4 rocket began in 2000, and the first Delta 4 rocket launched from Vandenberg in 2006. Saturday night’s mission is codenamed NROL-71 by the National Reconnaissance Office, which owns the U.S. government’s classified intelligence-gather satellites. The NRO has not released any information about the spacecraft aboard the Delta 4-Heavy, which can loft up to 51,950 pounds (23,560 kilograms) of payload mass to a 120-mile-high (200-kilometer) low Earth orbit inclined 90 degrees to the equator. The Delta 4-Heavy is ULA’s biggest rocket, and the beefiest version of the Delta 4 rocket has launched 10 times to date. The NROL-71 mission will be the 11th flight of a Delta 4-Heavy, and the 38th mission overall for the Delta 4 family since November 2002. lots of images at the site...a few are below... https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/08/photos-delta-4-heavy-poised-for-launch-with-u-s-spy-satellite/ An overview of Space Launch Complex-6 showing the mobile assembly shelter (left) and the mobile service tower (right) covering the Delta 4-Heavy rocket. Credit: Alex Polimeni/Spaceflight Now The mobile service tower retracts into position for launch during a countdown Dec. 7. Credit: Alex Polimeni/Spaceflight Now The mobile service tower retracts into position for launch during a countdown Dec. 7. Credit: United Launch Alliance The mobile service tower retracts into position for launch during a countdown Dec. 7. Credit: United Launch Alliance The mobile service tower retracts into position for launch during a countdown Dec. 8. Credit: United Launch Alliance The mobile service tower retracts into position for launch during a countdown Dec. 8. Credit: United Launch Alliance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Unobscured Vision Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Built-in countdown reset complete. Planned hold underway. Draggendrop 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggendrop Veteran Posted December 9, 2018 Veteran Share Posted December 9, 2018 15 minutes till launch... //neat data... Unobscured Vision 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unobscured Vision Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Everything on-track so far according to comms. Readiness poll. Draggendrop 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggendrop Veteran Posted December 9, 2018 Veteran Share Posted December 9, 2018 2 minutes ago, Unobscured Vision said: Everything on-track so far according to comms. Readiness poll. I never bothered to notice...on NROL launches...there must have been 75 people on desks.....that's like one person per telemetry bit.... Unobscured Vision 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unobscured Vision Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 And a Relief to instantly take over for any reason. I've been there in person, way back when. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unobscured Vision Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 HOLD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggendrop Veteran Posted December 9, 2018 Veteran Share Posted December 9, 2018 (edited) 1 minute ago, Unobscured Vision said: HOLD while it's getting toasty below....had me wondering They are doing a reset...must have been something simple... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Unobscured Vision Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Woof ... that's a hell of a time to have something go wrong -- T-0:07 ... they were in full startup. Resetting to T-4:00. Looks like they're gonna try again. Purging the chambers and clearing out whatever it was that tripped the abort. Draggendrop 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Unobscured Vision Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Purging the S2 LOX Tank ... sounds like they're gonna scrub tonight? Draggendrop 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Unobscured Vision Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Yep, that'll be a scrub then. Yeah, they're scrubbing. Bringing up heaters, purging, safing ordinance, etc. That's the only time they'd do that. Draggendrop 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggendrop Veteran Posted December 9, 2018 Veteran Share Posted December 9, 2018 2 minutes ago, Unobscured Vision said: Yep, that'll be a scrub then. Yeah, they're scrubbing. Bringing up heaters, purging, safing ordinance, etc. That's the only time they'd do that. That's what I thought...could be a few days out now... De-tanking...they are done. Unobscured Vision 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggendrop Veteran Posted December 9, 2018 Veteran Share Posted December 9, 2018 webcast over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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