Delta 4/ GOES P Sat Launched March 4, 2010 (GOES-15)

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Launch window: 23:17-00:17 GMT (6:17-7:17 p.m. EST)
Launch site: SLC-37B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida

The United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket will launch Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite P, or GOES P, for NASA and NOAA. The weather satellite will orbit 22,300 miles above the planet to monitor conditions across the U.S. The rocket will fly in the Medium+ (4,2) configuration with two solid rocket boosters.

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Shameless copy&paste from ULA Launch pages, since they don't have a dedicated page for this:
Rocket/Payload: Delta IV launching NASA and NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite P (GOES P) mission. ULA will be launching GOES P on behalf of Boeing Launch Services. GOES P is the second in a series of weather detecting satellites. A Delta IV launched the GOES N satellite in May 2006 and GOES O in June 2009.

Date/Launch Time/Site: March 2, with a one-hour launch window from 6:19-7:19 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex-37, Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. If the launch scrubs, the next launch attempt is set for March 3 with the launch window of 6:18-7:18 p.m. EST.

Launch Notes: This is the first Delta IV launch of 2010 and the second ULA launch of 2010. The launch configuration for this mission is a Delta IV Medium+(4,2) configuration with two solid rocket motors.

Payload Description: Working with GOES N and O, GOES P will provide more accurate prediction and tracking of severe storms and other weather phenomena, resulting in earlier and more precise warnings to the public. Supporting NOAA and NASA scientists collecting and analyzing real-time environmental data, as well as the U.S. Coast Guard searching the open seas, GOES P stands ready as the most advanced multi-mission weather and Earth-observation satellite ever built for NOAA geosynchronous operations.
Copied&pasted from: http://www.ulalaunch.com/index_launch_info.html

Full launch info package: http://www.ulalaunch.com/launch/GOESP/div_goesp_mob.pdf
(lots of nice graphs about the flight&vehicles for EarthlingX to fill his photobucket account)

NASA's GOES P Pages: http://www.nasa.gov/goes-p/

GOES Satellites in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostation ... _Satellite

Live coverage from NasaTV:
Web Browser Link: (for people who don't appreciate free floating video window)
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

Direct stream links: (you may have to copy&paste these to your media player)
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369080 (Quality: 150k)
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368162 (Quality: 300k)
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368570 (Quality: 500k)
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368163 (Quality: 1200k)

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More GOES from NASA:
http://goespoes.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://goespoes.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/spac ... craft.html
 
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Keep this at hand at launch, the rest is just more shameless waste of electrons, precious bandwidth, computer and brain cycles, to make suffering before i have to make a new account for pictures, shorter, and hopefully not too painful. You can shorten loading of this page by posting comments, it will get back to normal on the next page, unless there are more pictures :
GOES-P Mission Overview

from : http://s623.photobucket.com/albums/tt31 ... GoesP2010/

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Nice pictures in DELTA IV PAYLOAD PLANNERS GUIDE.


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Some spam about the engines :

RS-68


Graphite-Epoxy Motor
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RL-10


About the mission :
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpBSwwCPC94[/youtube]
 
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Thank you Wayne, i appreciate it :cool:
 
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NASA Sets Coverage For Goes-P Weather Satellite Launch March 2 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P, or GOES-P, is scheduled for launch aboard a Delta IV rocket on Tuesday, March 2, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The one-hour launch window extends from 6:19 to 7:19 p.m. EST.

GOES-P will provide expanded capability for space and solar environment-monitoring instruments. The satellite will enhance forecasts and warnings for solar disturbances. GOES-P data will help protect billions of dollars in investments by the government and private sector for assets on the ground and in space.

GOES-P will feature a highly stable pointing platform that will improve the performance of its Imager and Sounder, instruments used for creating daily weather-prediction models and hurricane forecasting. Data from GOES-P will be valuable for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Ocean Service, which provides oceanographic circulation models and forecasts for U.S. coastal communities.

As with all of NOAA's geostationary and polar-orbiting weather satellites, GOES-P will be able to relay distress signals detected from emergency locator beacons on the ground and at sea in support of the international search and rescue system. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., was responsible for designing and developing the spacecraft and its instruments for NOAA.

GOES-P is the last of three in the series of geostationary weather and environmental satellites built for NASA by Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems. The spacecraft will be checked out by Goddard and Boeing before being turned over to NOAA for operational use.

NASA will provide television, Internet and photo coverage of the launch starting with a prelaunch news conference at 4 p.m. on Monday, March 1, at NASA's Kennedy Space Centers Press Site.

Participating in the March 1 prelaunch news conference will be:
- Steve Kirkner, NOAA GOES Program manager, NOAA Satellite and Information Service
- Kris Walsh, Commercial Programs manager, United Launch Alliance
- Hieu Lam, Delta Commercial Program manager, Boeing Launch Services
- Andre Dress, GOES Deputy Project manager, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
- Charlie Maloney, GOES N-P Program manager, Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems
- Bart Hagemeyer, meteorologist in charge, NOAA National Weather Service forecast office, Melbourne, Fla.
- Joel Tumbiolo, Delta IV launch weather officer, 45th Weather Squadron, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

NASA Television will carry the prelaunch news conference and launch day coverage live. On March 2 NASA TV countdown coverage will begin at 4 p.m., and will conclude 30 minutes after liftoff. For NASA TV downlink information, schedules and links to streaming video, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv


Audio only of the prelaunch news conference and the launch coverage will be carried on the NASA "V" circuits which may be accessed by dialing 321-867-1220, - 1240, -1260 and -7135. On launch day, "Mission Audio," the launch conductor's countdown activities without NASA TV launch commentary, will be carried on 321-867-7135 starting at noon. Launch also will be available on local amateur VHF radio frequency 146.940 MHz heard within Brevard County.

Live countdown coverage on NASA's launch blog begins at 4 p.m. on March 2. Coverage features real-time updates of countdown milestones, as well as streaming video and a podcast of launch. To access these features, visit NASA's GOES-P mission Web site at:

http://www.nasa.gov/goes-p
 
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A couple of days old related reading :
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Begins Certification Testing of the RS-68A Rocket Engine
CANOGA PARK, Calif., Feb. 10, 2010 – Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has completed the initial step in certifying the RS-68A rocket engine by successfully hot-fire testing the first certification engine. The RS-68A is an upgrade of the RS-68, a liquid-hydrogen/liquid-oxygen booster engine that will provide increased thrust and improved fuel efficiency for the Delta IV family of launch vehicles. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) company.
 
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SATURDAY, FBRUARY 27, 2010
The swapout of a faulty valve has delayed the Delta 4 rocket launch of a new weather satellite by a day. Liftoff has been reset for Wednesday evening, which is when better weather conditions are expected anyway.
"During close out procedures on the vehicle Friday, mission managers determined that a steering control valve on one of the solid rocket motors was faulty and required removal and replacement," officials announced in a statement Saturday morning.

"This additional work, in addition to the normal processing timeline, requires the launch to move one day."

Wednesday's launch window stretches from 6:18 to 7:18 p.m. EST.

Weather forecasters had given slim odds that the launch would have happened Tuesday due to thunderstorms and high winds passing through the area. Much improved conditions are expected on Wednesday evening.
Quoted from Spaceflight Now Mission Status Center: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/delta/d348/status.html
 
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What is the launch azimuth?

I am in St Augustine, and we can see Shuttle launches from here, but those go northeast.
 
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Zipi

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Yet another 24H delay:
1344 GMT (8:44 a.m. EST)

Launch of the GOES P weather observatory aboard a Delta 4 rocket has been postponed to Thursday evening from the Cape, a 24-hour slip to replace a component in the fuel-delivery system from the pad to the vehicle.
"During launch processing inspections and reviews Sunday, mission managers determined that a quick disconnect in a line, which flows fuel to the rocket on launch day, needed to be removed and replaced. This work, in addition to the normal processing timeline, required the launch to move one day to March 4," officials announced in a statement Saturday morning.

"A faulty steering control valve located on a solid rocket motor discovered Friday was replaced and the resulting system checks are in-process," officials added.

"The Delta 4 and GOES P spacecraft are safe and secure."

Thursday's launch window stretches from 6:17 to 7:17 p.m. EST. The weather outlook is 80 percent favorable that day.
Quoted from: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/delta/d348/status.html
 
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MeteorWayne

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Upper level winds are green, go for 6:57 PM
 
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MeteorWayne

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Final poll good. Count picked up at T- 5:00

BTW, in response to an earlier question, azimuth is 95 degrees.
 
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MeteorWayne

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Damn, SDC is funky..

Liftoff, SRB Sep, Main engines still operating
 
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MeteorWayne

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MECO

Second stage ignition, fairing sep
 
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Is this site working properly???

Andrew Brown.
 
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I've lost two posts concerning this launch. :evil:

Andrew Brown.
 
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MeteorWayne

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There is a problem with posts entering correctly. TPTB are aware....
 
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There are times when I miss a Test Stand.
 
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EarthlingX

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State-of-the-Art Weather Satellite Sent Into Space
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY7F7Y0B4dY[/youtube]
 
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EarthlingX

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T-000:18


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Thank you for keeping me busy :cool:
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From http://spacefellowship.com/
GOES-P Satellite Sends 1st Signals From Space
Published by Klaus Schmidt on Sat Mar 6, 2010 3:50 am via: NASA
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., (Boeing) — Boeing [NYSE: BA] has received the first on-orbit signals from the third Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) built by Boeing for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The satellite, GOES-P, is healthy and ready to begin thruster firings to move to its on-orbit test location. GOES-P is a Boeing 601 satellite that will provide enhanced Earth-observation and weather-monitoring services.
 
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From NOAA:

On March 14, GOES-P will be placed in its final orbit and renamed GOES-15. Once it reaches geostationary orbit, GOES-P will undergo a series of tests for approximately six months before completing its “check-out” phase. After check out, GOES-P will be placed into orbital storage and remain ready for activation if one of the operational GOES fail.
 
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