[MilCom] NASA X-43A Launch Today!!

[Clay Gibbs]

http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx

Live chase video and cockpit/range control audio coverage (windows
medial player) here. Pretty cool to watch. As of 2148z, B-52 is still
on the ground-techs are troubleshooting an S-band receiver on the
craft. Awaiting words if this will scrub the launch or not.

Clay


n Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:22:28 -0500, Keith Stein <kstein at erols.com> wrote:
> The final flight of NASA's X-43A hypersonic research aircraft is still on
> schedule for this afternoon weather permitting. The mission is intended to
> flight-validate the operation of the X-43A's supersonic-combustion ramjet -
> or scramjet - engine at a record airspeed of almost Mach 10, or 10 times
> the speed of sound. The final X-43A mission is also expected to be the last
> research mission for NASA's venerable B-52B "mothership" heavy launch
> aircraft, which is due to be retired.
> 
> Takeoff is tentatively scheduled for about 1 p.m. Pacific time (4 p.m.
> Eastern time), with launch about an hour later over the Pacific test range
> off the coast of Southern California.
> 
> The NASA B-52 (radio call sign "NASA 008") will leave Edwards Air Force
> Base, Calif., and pass over Gorman, Calif., then Gaviota, Calif., before it
> enters Warning Area 289 over the Pacific Ocean.
> 
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