[Launch Alert] High Altitude Balloon Flight
- From: "Brian Webb" <kd6nrp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Launch Alert" <launch-alert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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