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April 19, 2006<br /><br />Katherine Trinidad<br />Headquarters, Washington<br />(202) 358-3749<br /><br />George H. Diller<br />Kennedy Space Center, Fla.<br />(321) 867-2468<br /><br />STATUS REPORT: E06-013<br /><br />NASA EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE STATUS REPORT E06-013<br /><br />Mission: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite <br />Observations (CALIPSO) and CloudSat<br />Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.<br />Launch Vehicle: Boeing Delta II<br />Launch Date: April 21, 2006<br />Launch Time: 6:02:08 a.m. EDT<br /><br />Workers at Space Launch Complex 2 fueled the Delta II second stage <br />Tuesday for flight with storable hypergolic propellants. Officials <br />also conducted a launch countdown dress rehearsal.<br /><br />No significant issues or concerns were found during the Flight <br />Readiness Review on Monday. Technicians installed the payload fairing <br />around the two spacecraft on April 14 and are conducting a routine <br />state-of-health check today.<br /><br />Plans call for the RP-1 fuel, highly refined kerosene, to be loaded on <br />the rocket's first stage on Thursday afternoon. Early that evening, <br />the mobile service tower will be retracted from around the rocket. <br />Liquid oxygen will be loaded into the first stage during the terminal <br />countdown sequence that starts at 4 a.m. EDT Friday. There is <br />currently an 80 percent chance of acceptable weather conditions for <br />launch.<br /><br />For more information about CALIPSO/CloudSat, visit:<br /><br /> http://www.nasa.gov/calipso or http://www.nasa.gov/cloudsat<br /><br />Previous status reports are available at:<br /><br /> http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/status/2006
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