[AZ-Observing] FW: [Launch Alert] Launch Tonight

  • From: "Rick Tejera" <saguaroastro@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:30:45 -0700

FYI, launch has been rescheduled for tonight.

Clear Skies

Rick Tejera
Editor SACnews,
Public Outreach Coordinator
Saguaro Astronomy Club
Phoenix, Arizona
www.saguaroastro.org
saguaroastro@xxxxxxx 
K7TEJ, AMSAT 38452

The Delta II/COSMO-4 launch is set for tonight at 7:20:03 p.m. PDT. This
morning the weather the odds of acceptable launch weather were placed at 80
percent.


Launch Status/Countdown and Webcast:

   http://www.spaceflightnow.com/delta/d350/status.html


Launch Webcast:  A simulcast of the broadcast will be available on the web
at: 

   http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/bls/missions/cosmo-4/ 


Launch Broadcast: Starts at 6:45 p.m. PDT and here are the satellite
coordinates

   Satellite: AMC1

   Transponder: K16

   Bandwidth: 36 MHz

   UL: 14320 MHz Horizontal

   DL: 12020 MHz Vertical

As I mentioned last week, if you're going to travel to one of the known
launch viewing sites, please try to arrive well before the launch.
Otherwise, you could sabotage someone's launch photogrphy.

Brian Webb


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