Posted on 05/16/2014 4:45:57 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
Their services have permeated daily lives for countless millions of people, and now the latest Global Positioning System satellite is awaiting blastoff to bolster the navigation network. A second launch attempt for the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket is set for 8:03 p.m. EDT Friday (0003 Saturday) after weather forced a scrub of Thursday evening's countdown.
Rocket: Delta 4
Variant: Medium+ 4,2
Payload: GPS 2F-6
Date: May 16, 2014
Window: 8:03-8:22 p.m. EDT
Site: SLC-37, Cape Canaveral, Florida
an 11 minute burn is considerable. Gotta get to geosynchronous orbit.
The wife and I were out for a walk (100 miles west of Cape)
On our walk back we were looking east. I said to here, we just missed a launch. That’s what its gotta be.
Great Scott Scotty. Beam us anywhere but here in the U.S.S.A.
The viz is pretty good if you can see it 100 miles away!
Zipcode 33523
We didn’t see the actual fireball, we saw the trail it left.
270 degrees true from one of their launch pads
Straight west to east across Disney’s Magic Kingdom.
Wonder if we could search around the junk yards and cobble up an old Apollo capsule to put on top of one of these and get a couple American astronauts up to the space station?
NASA could ask some Muslim’s to help us with it.
Get lost.....
???
Shoulduh put the “/s” up.
Play on words.
GPS/Get lost....
Okay. Got it! LOL!
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