02.03.06 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington Phone: (202) 358-5241 George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Phone: (321) 867-2468 STATUS REPORT: ELV-020306 EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE STATUS REPORT MISSION: Space Technology 5 (ST5) LAUNCH VEHICLE: Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL LAUNCH SITE: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California LAUNCH DATE: Feb. 28, 2006 LAUNCH WINDOW: 5:57:21 a.m. - 7:19:21 a.m. PST TARGETED DROP TIME: 6:04 a.m. PST The ST5 spacecraft is being mated to the Pegasus XL rocket today in the Orbital Sciences hangar at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Pegasus Flight Simulation No. 4, an integrated test with the ST5 spacecraft, is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 8. ST5 final functional testing and spacecraft closeouts are scheduled for Feb. 11 and 12. The three-day operation to install the Pegasus vehicle fairing around the ST5 spacecraft is currently scheduled for Feb. 14 through 16. MISSION: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar & Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation/CloudSat (CALIPSO/CloudSat) LAUNCH VEHICLE: Boeing Delta 7420 with Dual Payload Attach Fitting LAUNCH PAD: Space Launch Complex 2 LAUNCH SITE: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California LAUNCH DATE: Under Review LAUNCH WINDOW: TBD The strike against Boeing by the International Association of Machinists was settled this week. A launch timeframe for CALIPSO/CloudSat is under review pending resolution of any technical issues. CALIPSO and CloudSat are installed in the Dual Payload Attach Fitting at the Astrotech payload processing facilities on north Vandenberg. They will remain there until a new launch date is determined and then be prepared for transportation to NASA's Space Launch Complex 2. Further Delta II preparations at the launch pad are on hold until the CALIPSO/CloudSat payloads arrive for installation atop the second stage. Previous status reports are available on the Web at: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/status/2006 For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit: http://www.nasa.gov -end- To subscribe to the list, send a message to: ksc-subscribe@newsletters.nasa.gov To remove your address from the list, send a message to: ksc-unsubscribe@newsletters.nasa.gov
