[Launch Alert] High Altitude Balloon Flight

                ASTRONOMY/SPACE ALERT FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

                                  Brian Webb, KD6NRP
                           Ventura County, California
                          E-mail: kd6nrp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
                 Web Site: http://home.earthlink.net/~kd6nrp
                                       
                                                2003 April 10 (Thursday) 19:45 
PDT
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                           High Altitude Balloon Flight

A high-altitude balloon is tentatively scheduled for launch this
Saturday from Maricopa, Arizona. Weather permitting, the unmanned
balloon will leave its launch site at 08:00 PDT and carry an amateur
(ham) radio package to the edge of space.

The package includes a cross-band repeater. Licensed hams are invited
to attempt to establish communications using the repeater. The radio
frequencies planned for this flight are:

        CTCSS
        Freq.                   Tone
        (MHz)                   (Hz)                    Comments
        -----                   -----                   --------------
        145.560         162.2                   Repeater input
        445.525         None                    Repeater output
        445.950         None                    Packet beacon

Launch updates may be passed over the 220 MHz Condor linked repeater
system. For more information on the flight, go to:

        http://www.ansr.org/flightannouce.php

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                          VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE
                                  As of 2003 April 9

                  Launch
                Time/Window
  Date   (PST/PDT)               Vehicle                Pad/Silo
--------        -----------             ----------              --------

MAY 9             Unknown               Pegasus XL              Offshore
Payload is OrbView 3 commercial reconnaissance satellite. Pegasus will
be air-launched from an L-1011 staged from Vandenberg AFB 

JUN             01:01-07:01             Minuteman III   LF-04
ICBM test launch (non-orbital). Payload is at least one unarmed
warhead. Impact area is near Kwajalein in the central Pacific.
GT-182GM 

JUN 15    Unknown               Pegasus XL              Offshore
Payload is SciSat 1 ozone monitoring satellite. Pegasus will be
air-launched from an L-1011 staged from Vandenberg AFB

JUN 16    Unknown               Atlas IIas              SLC-3E
Payload is a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite(s). 

Late JUN          ~08:00                Titan II                SLC-4W
Payload is a DMSP military weather satellite. 

AUG             01:01-07:01             Minuteman III   LF-26
ICBM test launch (non-orbital). Payload is at least one unarmed
warhead. Impact area is near Kwajalein in the central Pacific.
GT-183GB 

SEP             01:01-07:01             Minuteman III   LF-10
ICBM test launch (non-orbital). Payload is at least one unarmed
warhead. Impact area is near Kwajalein in the central Pacific.
GT-181GM 

SEP 18    Unknown               Delta II                SLC-2W
Payload is NASA's Gravity Probe-B scientific satellite

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