A close friend of mine works at SpaceX. Launch is expected at 6am California time on Wednesday. There will be a live webcast of the launch, orbits, and reentry, starting at around 5:15am PST tomorrow morning on the SpaceX website www.spacex.com and continuing through the mission until around 10:00am. The rocket will deliver the first Dragon Capsule into low Earth orbit, where it will circle the Earth 3 times and then re-enter for a spash-down and recovery just off the California Coast. If successful, the next Dragon capsule will launch and dock with the International Space Station next year on the first of a series of post Space Shuttle resupply missions. Cheers John Burns http://www.john.geek.nz On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Robert Holdsworth <robbonz1@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > Sorry you are correct, Wednesday this week earliest. > > No time to go into more detail just now sorry > > Robert > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rob Dale" <rdale@skywatch.org> > To: "Robert Holdsworth" <robbonz1@xtra.co.nz>; "Seesat List" > <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 2:36 AM > Subject: RE: Test flight of Dragon spacecraft this week > > >> Are you sure? Everything coming from SpaceX I can find still says this >> week -- do you have any inside info to share? >> >> http://tinyurl.com/232ob9o >> >> - Rob >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: seesat-l-bounces+rdale=skywatch.org@satobs.org [mailto:seesat-l- >>> bounces+rdale=skywatch.org@satobs.org] On Behalf Of Robert Holdsworth >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 1:10 >>> To: Seesat List >>> Subject: Re: Test flight of Dragon spacecraft this week >>> >>> Postponed to Wednesday next week earliest. >> >> __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus >> signature database 5680 (20101206) __________ >> >> The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >> >> http://www.eset.com >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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