ASTRONOMY/SPACE ALERT FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Brian Webb, KD6NRP Ventura County, California E-mail: 102670.1206@compuserve.com Web Site: http://home.earthlink.net/~kd6nrp 2001 September 19 (Wednesday) 21:15 PDT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday Missile Launch A Taurus booster is slated to launch a pair of satellites Friday from Vandenberg AFB. The Taurus is scheduled to leave Space Launch Complex 576E at 11:49 PDT, the start of an 18-minute launch window. The vehicle will climb vertically for several seconds and then begin heading south down the Western Test Range. If all goes well, the OrbView-4 commercial reconnaissance satellite and NASA's QuikTOMS scientific satellite will be inserted into a polar orbit. Countdown status will be available on Friday from the Spaceflight Now web site at http://www.spaceflightnow.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dual Minuteman Launch Rescheduled The dual Minuteman III launch scheduled for last Friday was postponed indefinitely. This event is now reported to be rescheduled for early November. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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