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Kennedy releases Gulf Coast sea turtle hatchlings By Steven Siceloff in addition to Kemp’s ridley, may Spaceport News be brought to the Kennedy hatchery. In all, about 50,000 hatchlings ozens of endangered baby normally start their lives on Gulf sea turtles are having an Coast beaches during hatching Dunusual birthday at Ken- season. nedy Space Center with the help of From hand-picking each egg dozens of officials and volunteers from beaches on the northern Gulf who rescued them from the oil spill- of Mexico, to trucking them in threatened northeastern shores of custom vehicles from FedEx to the Gulf of Mexico. incubating them at Kennedy and Two groups of Kemp’s ridley finally releasing them to crawl sea turtle hatchlings have been into the surf, the work is about as released onto Atlantic Ocean delicate as it gets. beaches so far as the unprecedented Left on their own, the turtles operation to save sea turtle nests likely would have been helpless ramps up. against the effects of the BP The Merritt Island National Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Wildlife Refuge was established wildlife officials said. in 1963 as an overlay of Kennedy, “We understand that significant where it shares the land with space risks remain, but the option of shuttle launch pads, rockets and allowing tens of thousands of turtle research and development facilities. NASA/Kim Shiflett hatchlings to crawl into oiled waters In addition, Canaveral National The first group of hatchlings from endangered sea turtle eggs brought from beaches along the northern of the northern Gulf of Mexico Seashore is partially in Kennedy U.S. Gulf Coast are released July 10 into the Atlantic Ocean off Kennedy Space Center. Jane Provan- is not acceptable,” said Rodney also, and together these agencies cha, right, is Kennedy’s lead biologist at the hatchery and is heading-up the project. The photos were Barreto, chairman of the Florida shot using a red filter to protect the hatchlings. provide more 24 miles of sea turtle Fish and Wildlife Conservation nesting beach habitat. life Service, the Florida Fish and Kennedy that have been laid on the Commission. “We are home to many species Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida Panhandle and Alabama’s Jane Provancha, the lead of protected wildlife and we hope the National Park Service, NOAA, beaches. biologist and environmental project to provide these sea turtles with a FedEx and conservationists to help The hatchlings are part of the manager for Innovative Health better chance of survival,” Center minimize the risk to this year’s sea same populations of species that Applications (IHA) at the Kennedy Director Bob Cabana said. turtle hatchlings from impacts of lay their eggs on the Atlantic and hatchery, said the first nest was The release and relocation the oil spill. During the next several Gulf coasts. The endangered species received June 26, about 10 days work is part of the environmental months, this plan involves carefully include loggerhead turtles, but nests endeavor by the U.S. Fish and Wild- moving an anticipated 700 nests to from leatherback and green turtles, See TURTLES, Page 3

ARES I-X results Heritage: First Inside this issue . . . spaceport launch STS-132 crew returns ET-138 arrives

Page 2 Page 3 Page 6 Page 7 Page 2 SPACEPORT NEWS July 23, 2010 Workshop addresses CRYOTE possibilities By Linda Herridge gies in space. The CRYOTE Lite deployed, the residual Centaur NASA technology-enabled ex- Spaceport News ground test article, assembled by propellant would be transferred ploration strategies, the agency’s Innovative Engineering Solutions into CRYOTE Lite, which would ASA is investigating new Innovative Partnerships Program, in San Diego is a spherical titanium remain attached to the Centaur or and unique ways to launch and CRYOTE demonstration flight tank about 30 inches in diameter Delta IV upper stage. small secondary payloads requirements and desired results. N with a skirt that connects to the Following CRYOTE missions Johnson said part of the prob- aboard future expendable launch vehicle missions. One of these existing expendable launch vehicle would have their own avionics lem in the past with long-duration ways is on a CRYogenic Orbital structure. systems with which to deploy from upper stage or lander stages was TEstbed, or CRYOTE. Various parts of CRYOTE the Centaur. the relative poor performance of To help facilitate the means were donated by United Launch “We would love to get a flight non-cryogenic propulsion. to accomplish a CRYOTE second- Alliance, Sierra Lobo and Ken- off in 2012,” Johnson said. “That He said the cryogenic fluid ary payload mission, the Fluids nedy. CRYOTE would launch as a seems to be a little bit ambitious management community has been secondary payload on the Atlas V but we’d like to get a start in 2012 Test and Technology Development striving for a microgravity demon- or Delta IV, placed between the pri- and fly at least annually.” Branch of Kennedy Space Center’s stration since the late 1960s. mary payload and upper stage. Johnson said the purpose is Engineering Directorate hosted a “There has been a chicken- The cryogenic fluids test that it allows NASA to fly mul- Secondary Cryogenic Payload Tes- and- egg scenario going on for engineer said the purpose of the tiple options with different pieces tbed Workshop, July 14 and 15. 40 years in which long-duration Fluid engineers and experts workshop was to gather experts on of hardware which might fly on a cryogenic storage can’t be base- from industry, trade, academia, cryogenic fluids together and get flagship demonstration or any other lined into a proposed architecture and four NASA centers gathered all the ideas put on the table so the upper stage demonstration. because it has never been demon- to share ideas and determine if and agency has as much information as “It allows us to test multiple strated,” Johnson said. “Since it how they can participate. possible before moving forward to pieces of hardware that do similar “We need your help. We need actual CRYOTE flights. functions to see which one operates isn’t baselined, it has been nearly your ideas,” workshop facilitator “It also allows NASA to the best and how different pieces impossible to get funding for a Wesley Johnson said. “We want ask industry what they see as the of hardware operate together,” demonstration flight. As a sec- to be able to share data. Working best way forward in a much more Johnson said. ondary payload, CRYOTE could together as a team is important.” relaxed and conversational manner Workshop topics included a greatly reduce the cost of technol- CRYOTE is an orbiting labora- than a request for information,” CRYOTE project overview, current ogy demonstration for many tech- tory designed to investigate cryo- Johnson said. CRYOTE status, the technology nologies that need the cryogenic genic fluid management technolo- After the primary payload is demonstration mission program, microgravity environment.” STS-132 crew returns to share highlights with workers By Linda Herridge of the main engines. mission and the 34th shuttle Spaceport News Ham said the cupola, flight to the space station. It which was delivered and also was the 150th launch uring an STS-132 attached to the station on a from Launch Complex 39. crew return pre- previous mission, is like an Crew members took sentation to Ken- D observation deck from which turns describing the launch, nedy Space Center workers, the entire horizon of Earth July 16, Commander Ken the activities and spacewalks can be viewed. involved in delivering and Ham said it’s an immense “It’s an absolutely privilege to go into space attaching the Russian-built amazing place to be,” Ham Mini-Research Module-1 and look back at the planet, said. “It’s all of our respon- and an integrated cargo but with that privilege comes sibility to take care of the carrier to the International responsibility. Earth, keep it running and Space Station, their experi- “That responsibility is to make sure we have some- ences on the station, as well share it with as many people thing to pass on to the next NASA/Cory Huston as landing. as we can. Being in space generation.” Behind the STS-132 crew is a picture of them in their famous “blue jackets,” which Sellers said the station is does give you a bit of a dif- Commander Ken Ham says shows their true identity. Ham says Atlantis ferent perspective on life and Garrett Reisman was the crew “mojo officer” and told the members when to wear launched the STS-132 mis- nearly complete and weighs our planet,” Ham said. “It the jackets to work. sion from Kennedy’s Launch about 500 tons. is a privilege for us to come main engine shop before sion Specialists Garrett Reis- Pad 39A on May 14, and “It’s an unbelievable back to NASA centers. It’s joining crew mates Steve man and Michael Good were glided to a safe landing at achievement. It’s all for you guys that are part of the Bowen and Piers Sellers not able to attend. the center’s Shuttle Landing peaceful purposes, all for entire team that make the for a slideshow and video Ham said the engine Facility on May 26, after a science. There’s nothing whole operation happen.” presentation, featuring music workers really liked the 12-day mission. but good here. You can all Ham said he and Pilot from Muse, at Kennedy’s STS-132 mission patch be- It was Atlantis’ 32nd feel terribly proud of what Tony Antonelli toured the Training Auditorium. Mis- cause it features a great view flight, the 132nd shuttle you’ve done,” Sellers said. July 23, 2010 SPACEPORT NEWS Page 3 External tank for STS-134 mission arrives at Kennedy By Linda Herridge transports fuel and oxidizer, Spaceport News it actually provides the structural background of ASA External Tank the space shuttle system by and Solid Rocket absorbing the thrust loads NBooster Manager produced at launch by the Alicia Mendoza and several shuttle and the boosters. tank technicians marveled The tank will be attached as they watched External to the twin solid rocket Tank-138, or ET-138, slowly boosters on the mobile emerge from the Pegasus launcher in early September. barge and begin its trip Mendoza said there is an- to the Vehicle Assembly other tank, ET-122, sched- Building at Kennedy Space uled to arrive at the begin- Center on July 14. ning of October, for shuttle “It’s an impressive sight. Atlantis in the unlikely It’s not our last tank, but event it is needed for rescue it is our last flight tank,” mission. Mendoza said. “It’s a bit- During STS-134, Com- tersweet moment. This one mander Mark Kelly, Pilot is special because right now NASA/Jim Grossmann Gregory Johnson, and Mis- it’s planned to be the last External Tank-138 is offloaded from the Pegasus barge July 14 in the Launch Complex 39 area at Kennedy Space Center. sion Specialists Michael mission.” The external fuel tank arrived in Florida on July 13 from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans. ET-138, the Fincke, Greg Chamitoff, ET-138 completed its last newly manufactured tank, is designated to fly on ’s STS-134 mission to the International Space Station. Launch is targeted for Feb. 26, 2011. Andrew Feustel and Europe- six-day, 900-mile journey an Space Agency to Kennedy from NASA’s eled, the tank will be used to the launch pad for purging the tanks has definitely Roberto Vittori, will deliver Michoud Assembly Facility launch shuttle Endeavour on and venting hydrogen gas as improved throughout the an Express Logistics Carrier in Louisiana, arriving on the STS-134 mission to the well as provide for electri- years. For instance, the and the Alpha Magnetic July 13. International Space Station, cal pneumatic connections,” tanks are lighter and several Spectrometer to the station. Engineers and technicians which is the last scheduled Mendoza said. process improvements were The crew also will deliver walked alongside the tank, flight for the agency’s Space Technicians also will implemented at the Michoud spare parts, including two inspecting for any minor Shuttle Program. close out specific areas on plant. S-band communications an- flaws, as it moved slowly During final processing, the tank using thermal pro- “As far as our processing, tennas, a high-pressure gas along. After reaching the technicians will fill plug pull tective foam and then trim we’ve also gotten better. We tank, micrometeoroid debris transfer aisle in the Vehicle test cylindrical holes with these areas for a smooth picked up additional work shields and spare parts for Assembly Building, the tank a special type of foam that surface. from the plant,” Mendoza Dextre. was lifted off its transporter is hand-poured for small or “The ET work force is said. “Our processing is The mission is the 36th and placed in a test cell July irregularly shaped repairs, amazing. Throughout the more efficient. Typically, shuttle flight to the station 15 so the ET closeout team and install and connect the years, they have met every we can process this tank in and the 134th and final workers could perform in- Ground Umbilical Car- technical and manifest chal- about 15 workdays.” scheduled shuttle flight. spections and system tests. rier Place, or GUCP to the lenge with such exuberance Mendoza said although Launch of Endeavour Weighing in at 58,000 Intertank. and determination for suc- from an outside perspective on the STS-134 mission is pounds unfueled and “The GUCP’s purpose is cess,” Mendoza said. the tank seems like a simple targeted for Feb. 26, 2011, 1.6 million pounds when fu- to provide the interface to She said the quality of bright orange vessel that at 4:19 p.m. EST.

From TURTLES, Page 1 At this point, the incubation inside Styrofoam containers and stretch of the Atlantic shore and process is producing normal brought in the FedEx truck to set free. Typically, sea turtles after expert opinions concluded amounts of hatchlings from the Kennedy, where they are housed in make their way offshore to a that the relocation was viable and nests, Provancha said. “The process comfortable darkness and relative developmental habitat where they necessary. Eight nests have been of incubation is actually quite quiet in a climate-controlled can eat and grow. received so far, but more than 700 simple.” building. The nests are monitored With the first round of releases are expected to be relocated by the The hard part is any physical on a daily basis for temperature and behind them with positive results, time the operation closes at the end movement of the eggs. For instance, for signs of hatching. Coordination workers are learning what works of hatching season in October. the nests cannot be dug up in one with the Gulf Coast biologists on and what can change as they “We were asked by USFWS scoop by an excavator. Instead, nest arrivals, tracking nest status continue to relocate more nests. and NOAA and we recommitted each egg is handled by a trained and and releases will be a continual Kennedy is helping other to support this action through the authorized official who keeps the challenge, they said. wildlife survive the effects of the whole nesting season,” Provancha egg oriented exactly as it was in its After they hatch, the tiny sea oil spill, including the recent rescue said. “The plan is to move them all nest. A nest can hold 100 or more turtles, about half the size of an and release of six brown pelicans, because the Gulf is in extremely bad eggs. outstretched hand, are carried to four laughing gulls and one condition.” The eggs and sand are placed different points along a 100-mile common tern. Page 4 SPACEPORT NEWS July 23, 2010 July 23, 2010 SPACEPORT NEWS Page 5 Scenes Around Kennedy Space Center

NASA/Cory Huston Space Florida hosts a “Best Ideas forum” for local and sate leaders, aerospace representatives and economic stakeholders July 7 at the Hyatt NASA/Kim Shiflett Regency Hotel in the Orlando International Airport. The goal of the forum was to showcase projects and concepts that may help Florida’s Space ’s STS-133 crew members listen to a technician as he describes the components of a shuttle main engine in the engine shop at Kennedy Space Center. From left, Coast region create new jobs and diversify its economy after the ’s retirement. Forum topics will be presented to the are Mission Specialist Alvin Drew, Commander Steve Lindsey, Pilot Eric Boe, Mission Specialists Tim Kopra, Nicole Stott, and Michael Barratt. The crew members were at Kennedy on Federal Task Force on Space Industry Workforce and Economic Development for consideration. July 8 and 9 for the Crew Equipment Interface Test, or CEIT, which provides them with hands-on training and observation of shuttle and flight hardware for their mission to the International Space Station. Launch is targeted for Nov. 1 at 4:33 p.m. EDT.

NASA/Jack Pfaller Technicians prepare to install a resupply rack into the Permanent Multipurpose Module, or PMM, in the Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center on July 8. The Leonardo multi-purpose logistics module, or MPLM, is being modified to become the PMM that will carry supplies and critical NASA/Jim Grossmann spare parts to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Discovery’s STS-133 mission. George McGovern, a former U.S. representative, senator, ambassador and 1972 presidential nominee, talks with Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana in Headquarters on July 19. NASA/Kim Shiflett Discovery, targeted to launch Nov. 1, will leave the module behind so it can be used for microgravity In 1960, President John F. Kennedy, for whom the space center is named, appointed McGovern as the first director of the Food for Peace Program and Special Assistant to the President. Donor Services Specialist Alli McLellan draws blood from Andrew Nick with ASRC Aerospace Corp. during a blood drive July 7 at Kennedy Space experiments in fluid physics, materials science, biology and biotechnology. McGovern and his family were visiting the Space Coast area for a skydiving . Center’s Operations and Checkout Building. The event was sponsored by Florida’s Blood Centers. Page 6 SPACEPORT NEWS July 23, 2010 Engineers: -X flight test performed beautifully By Steven Siceloff Spaceport News “It wasn’t just good for he Ares I-X flight test in designing an Ares rocket, 2009 met all its primary it was good for designing Tgoals and provided a solid rockets in general.” foundation for future rockets, the engineers who designed the rocket and oversaw the launch said during Jon Cowart, a recent presentation at Kennedy Ares I-X flight test mission manager Space Center. “The rocket just performed beautifully,” Deputy Mission The results give engineers and Manager Jon Cowart told a group designers more confidence to use that included engineers who will be the models in future rockets and counted on to develop future launch show them where to polish the vehicles. “Certainly one of the models. coolest things I have done,” he said. While the I-X team looked Although the Ares I-X over the data from the flight test comprised a four-segment solid for weeks, Cowart admitted slight rocket booster as a first stage and nervousness on launch day because was topped with a dummy fifth of a maneuver planned to tip the segment and upper stage, the results 327-foot-long rocket slightly away showed the design is solid, Ares I-X from the fixed service structure at officials said. the launch pad. “It wasn’t just good for “We all knew that it was going designing an Ares rocket,” Cowart to do that fly-away maneuver, but said, “it was good for designing when that thing comes off the deck rockets in general.” and that thing started to tilt . . . I The launch on Oct. 28, just didn’t think it was ever going to 2009, from Kennedy’s Launch stop tilting,” Cowart told the group, Pad 39B answered a great deal laughing throughout. “As soon as it of fundamental questions about flew away, stopped tilting, no one the rocket’s performance and was happier.” aerodynamic design. For example, The flight’s only flaw came Chris Calfee of NASA’s Marshall after the first stage burned through Space Flight Center said the its fuel and separated from the telemetry gave engineers a good dummy upper stage. One of the look at the thrust oscillations the three main parachutes collapsed booster would experience during entirely during the fall to the ocean ascent. Calfee served as the first and a second partially collapsed, stage Integrated Product Team most likely because the device leader for the Ares I-X. that cuts the reefing lines activated “We’re confident that’s not the earlier than planned. problem we first thought it would With 3 1/2 years from concept be,” Calfee said. to launch, Cowart held up the The rocket was lined with flight test as an example of quickly more than 700 sensors that gave working through designs and engineers enough data to compare building the rocket with a great deal with predictions made by computer of existing technology, such as the models. avionics of the Atlas V rocket. Marshall Smith, chief of With the I-X experience to the systems integration office draw on, the engineers said future for Ares I-X at NASA’s Langley rockets can incorporate a number of Research Center, said most of the policies, techniques and models to

NASA/Sandra Joseph - Kevin O’Connell flight results lined up easily with move ahead quickly from a concept the computer forecasts, including to an operational launcher. The Ares I-X rocket roars off Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 28, 2009. The flight test gathered information from more than 700 sensors to give engineers heating predictions that were within “We helped rocket science in enough data to compare with predictions made by computer models. 3 degrees of the actual temperatures. general,” Smith said. July 23, 2010 SPACEPORT NEWS Page 7 Remembering Our Heritage 60 years of spaceport launches started with Bumper 8 By Stan Starr tower by a Tiny Tim solid ing a meeting involving JPL, General Electric developed from White Sands. For Spaceport News fuel rocket so it would be General Electric and the a Teflon nose cone for the After a misfire on traveling fast enough for its Army and would combine WAC, the first ablative ther- July 22, Bumper 7 was re- n 9:28 a.m. on fins to stabilize flight. The the WAC and V-2 and a mal protection system. placed by Bumper 8, which July 24, 1950, a WAC was 12.5 feet long, “step” rocket to achieve very The trajectory required launched two days later. Otall white Bumper 12 inches in diameter and high velocities and altitudes. to achieve this high heating Recently discovered data vehicle, a V-2 topped by a carried a payload of roughly These achievements would was horizontal flight at only indicated that the V-2 flew WAC Corporal second stage, 30 pounds. be made public and help the 200,000 feet. This required too low due to a gyroscope rumbled off the pad becom- General Electric was Army compete for research use of the Long Range malfunction and high aero- ing the first rocket launch given the job of building, and development, or R&D, Proving Ground, or, LRPG, dynamic pressure caused from Cape Canaveral. testing and launching the funds during the austere a new range under construc- the WAC to break up during But why was this V-2s. Because most of the post-war years. Eight V-2s tion in Cape Canaveral, the staging. The WAC for Bum- launch conducted, what technical details of the were set aside for the Bum- Banana River Naval Air per 7 was strengthened with events led to this moment rocket had been published per Project. Station and at remote down- extra rivets and separated and what were the lasting there was little need for The first six flights took range islands. The LRPG cleanly, but also flew too effects of this historic mo- secrecy. The Army decided place from White Sands was just setting up and had low. Neither flight produced ment? to team up with scientists to and resulted in the flight of no facilities when the Bum- the hoped-for data. The V-2 was developed use the V-2s as instruments Bumper 5, which reached pers arrived. The LRPG only The main contribu- in great secrecy by a large and most available missions a stunning altitude of 244 had time to build a launch tion of these two launches, group of German engineers were allotted to studying air miles. pad, the rest of the facilities aside from simply being the under the technical direction temperature, missile heating, The remaining two were temporary. first, was the great publicity of Dr. . astronomy and the effects rockets were assigned to The Navy provided two it provided to the missile The 40-foot-long V-2, which of rocket flight on living study aerodynamic heating, ships to track the Bumper program. The photo of the carried a 1-ton payload some organisms. The Bumper a major problem for re- while most of the rest of the launch remains the most fa- 200 miles, was arguably the Program was conceived dur- entering missile warheads. equipment was borrowed mous photograph of the era. most important rocket his- torically because it was the first example of a complete self-guided missile. It provided the ground- work for all subsequent intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, and space launch vehicles. More than 3,000 were launched during World War II and as Germany crumbled, the U.S. Army captured parts for roughly 100 V-2s. Von Braun and most of his team also decided to surrender to the Americans. More than 100 German engineers and the captured V-2 parts were sent to El Paso, Texas, and nearby White Sands Proving Ground to assist the Army in developing future missile systems. When they arrived, Americans working for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or JPL, already were launch- ing the WAC Corporal, an unguided prototype for the Corporal missile, which would become America’s first operational missile NASA file/1950 system. The WAC was In 1949, the Joint Long Range Proving Ground was established at Cape Canaveral. Bumper 8, a V2, was the first missile launched from the Cape on July 24, 1950. launched out of a 100-foot Bumper 7, which launched five days later, was the final flight of the project. Page 8 SPACEPORT NEWS July 23, 2010

Put your face in space ON THE NASA’s Face-in-Space program gives people the chance to put their picture on one of WORD STREET the remaining space shuttle missions and launch it into orbit. Sixty years ago, the U.S. launched the first rocket from Go to http://faceinspace.nasa.gov/ and follow the instructions to upload a photo and to find out how to receive a flight certificate at the conclusion of the mission. Cape Canaveral. What was your first launch experience? And what do you remember most about it?

“The Pluto/ launch in January 2006 because I was Upcoming events . . . able to watch my first launch from the OSB II.” David Wallace, July 24 The KSC Education Office hosts NASA Family Education with NASA and Night; 6 to 10 p.m., Astronaut Hall of Fame Aug. 28 POC: Beverly Davis, 867-3399, [email protected]

July 29 Kennedy’s Engineering Academy host Dr. Martha Williams and “I was 10 and on a boat with my dad when we saw 11 Dr. Luke Roberson, who will talk about polymer chemistry; make its way toward and eventually land on the moon .” 10 to 11 a.m., KSC Training Auditorium Elizabeth Halsema, POC: Gisele Altman, 867-4000 with Kennedy Space Center Credit Union

Aug. 30 The Innovative Partnerships Program hosts a lecture by Dr. Nannette Stangle-Castor on “Open Innovation”; 9 to 11:30 a.m. or 1 to 3:30 p.m., Kennedy Learning Institute POC: Carol Anne Dunn, 867-6381 “It was Atlantis on STS-110 . . . the whole experience is something I’ll never forget . . . it was unbelievable.” Sept. 25 KSC Family Day/Take Your Children to Work Day Neil Raver, POC: Layla Higgins, [email protected] with Lackmann Culinary Services

For more, go to the internal Kennedy Events and Schedules Calendar at www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/events/index.html “I remember STS-63 . . . it was a night launch. I’ll never forget my house shaking and the glow from space shuttle Discovery.” Looking up and ahead . . . Luke Smith, with SE Jones Targeted for Aug. 10 Launch/CCAFS: Atlas V, AEHF 1; 7:21 to 9:22 a.m. EDT

Targeted for September Launch/CCAFS: Falcon 9, Dragon C1; TBD “I watched Columbia on STS-1 take off when I was in high school in Michigan and I knew right then what I wanted to do.” Targeted for Oct. 19 Launch/CCAFS: Delta IV Heavy, NROL-32; TBD Chien Nguyen, Targeted for Nov. 1 Launch/KSC: Discovery, STS-133; 4:33 p.m. EDT with NASA

Targeted for Nov. 17 Launch/CCAFS: Atlas V, GPS IIF-2; TBD

Nov. 22 Launch/VAFB: Taurus, ; 5:09 a.m. EST

Targeted for Launch/CCAFS: Atlas V, SBIRS GEO-1; TBD Jan. 22, 2011 John F. Kennedy Space Center

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