[FPSPACE] FW: Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

[LARRY KLAES]

>From: KSC News Center <ksc at newsletters.nasa.gov>
>To: KSC News Center <ksc at newsletters.nasa.gov>
>Subject: Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report
>Date: Fri Aug 15 13:00:01 EDT 2008
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>Aug. 15, 2008
>
>George H. Diller
>Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
>321-867-2468
>george.h.diller at nasa.gov
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>STATUS REPORT: ELV-081508
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>EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE STATUS REPORT
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>Mission: IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer)
>Launch Vehicle: Pegasus XL (Orbital Sciences)
>Launch Facility: Reagan Test Site, Kwajalein Pacific Atoll
>Launch Date: Oct. 5, 2008
>Launch Window: 12:42 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. EDT
>(04:42 a.m. - 04:45 a.m. local Kwajalein time)
>
>At Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., the IBEX spacecraft was fueled
>with hydrazine control propellant on Aug. 12. This was followed by
>spacecraft spin balancing on Aug. 14. Friday, IBEX is scheduled to be
>attached to the upper stage booster. Technicians will then perform a
>final spin-balance test of the entire flight stack on Aug. 16. After
>de-integration, the upper stage will be transported to the Pegasus
>launch vehicle hangar on Aug. 19. The IBEX spacecraft will be moved
>there on Aug. 20.
>
>At the Orbital Sciences launch vehicle hangar, prelaunch processing of
>the Pegasus XL rocket continues to occur on schedule. Mating of the
>first and second stages was completed yesterday. Attachment of the
>second and third stages was done on Aug. 12.
>
>The L-1011 aircraft carrying the Pegasus XL rocket with IBEX currently
>is planned to depart from Vandenberg on Sept. 25. After a stop in
>Hawaii, the flight will continue and arrive at the Reagan Test Site
>at Kwajalein Atoll in the south Pacific on Sept. 26.
>
>For information about IBEX and its mission, visit:
>
>http://www.nasa.gov/ibex
>
>Previous status reports are available at:
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>http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/status/2008
>
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