Posted on 10/04/2022 6:33:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Weather at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Launch Complex 41, where a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is nearly ready to fly with two communications satellites, is expected to be 70% "go" for liftoff on Tuesday, Oct. 4. Launch is set for 5:36 p.m. EDT.
Atlas V will take two commercial communications payloads to orbit for SES, a Luxembourg-based satellite operator. They are labeled SES-20 and SES-21.
It will fly an eastern trajectory.
On Saturday, teams at Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A rolled a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from its hangar to the pad, setting the stage for liftoff at 12 noon Wednesday, Oct. 5. That launch will see a Crew Dragon capsule take three astronauts and a cosmonaut to the International Space Station for a six-month science mission.
Finally, another Falcon 9 rocket is slated to launch the Space Coast's third mission of the week between 7 and 8 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 6. The liftoff from the Cape's Launch Complex 40 will take two commercial communications payloads – Intelsat's Galaxy 33 and 34 – to orbit along a northeastern corridor.
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We have economic sanctions against Russia, yet we're still cooperating on space missions?
If they wanted to could they blow up Dish TV just for kicks.
Otherwise, while I didn’t follow Ian that close ..apparently it didn’t pass through Cape Canaveral?
Went right over the Cape. But, at that point, Ian was just a strong tropical storm.
They did roll the Artemis rocket back to the VAB.
It’s a WONDERFUL day right now just south of the cape, but, there is rain off the coast.
What is the weather for the diverse designers and getting anything off the ground without a massive boom ??
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