[Launch Alert] Pegasus Launch

[Brian Webb]

                             LAUNCH ALERT

			            Brian Webb
		         Ventura County, California
		         E-mail: kd6nrp at earthlink.net
	         Web Site: http://www.spacearchive.info

				             2006 March 21 (Tuesday) 06:16 PST
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                           PEGASUS LAUNCH

Last week's aborted Pegasus XL launch from California has been
rescheduled for March 22. An L-1011 jumbo jet will carry the rocket
from Vandenberg AFB to the drop point above the ocean south-southwest
of Monterey. The target drop time is 06:02 PST during a 05:57:31 to
07:19:50 PST launch window.

Following release from the L-1011, the Pegasus XL rocket will briefly
free fall before ignition of its first stage rocket motor. The vehicle
will then head south over the Pacific and carry NASA's ST5 satellites
into a polar orbit.

In the event of a scrub, the range has been reserved for the morning
of March 23.

Daylight Pegasus launches are very difficult to see beyond the Central
Coast. At best, tomorrow's event will probably only be visible along
the coast from San Francisco to Santa Barbara.

For information on how to obtain countdown status for this mission,
refer to previous issues of Launch Alert.

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