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Saturday, August 16, 2014

Terrier-Lynx Suborbital Rocket Is Scheduled For Launch For The Department of Defense Tonight


NASA's Wallops Flight Facility

Countdown is on! A Terrier-Lynx suborbital rocket is scheduled for launch for the Department of Defense between 10:30 p.m., tonight, August 16, and 12:30 a.m., August 17, from Wallops.

Tonight's scheduled launch may be visible to people in the Chesapeake Bay region--here's the predicted visibility map. At the request of DOD project managers, we won't have real-time status updates. There is a 2-hour window for tonight's launch--window opens at 10:30 p.m. and runs through 12:30 a.m.


The launch will not be shown live on the Internet nor will launch status updates be provided on social media once the countdown begins. The NASA Visitor Center at Wallops will not be open for viewing the launch.

UPDATE:
Scrubbed for tonight--will give it another go next Saturday, Aug. 23.
The scheduled launch of a Terrier-Lynx suborbital rocket for the Department of Defense Saturday, Aug. 16, from NASA’s launch range at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia has been postponed.
The new launch date is 9 to 11:30 p.m. EDT, Saturday, Aug. 23. At the request of DOD project managers, no real-time launch status updates will be available for this mission.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm going to have to study this whole sub orbital issue because I'm not really sure what it means.Hopefully it means that whatever they're putting up there will stay up there.