[Launch Alert] Launch Tonight

[kd6nrp at earthlink.net]

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