[SGVHAK] Vandenberg Launch morning of Oct 8

[Braddock Gaskill]

I have a bird on that rocket.  The AMSAT Fox-1 amateur radio satellite is
launching with NROL-55.  I did some early design work on it.  Hope to hear
it on the air soon - it is a much needed FM repeater.

-braddock

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Scoops Adamczyk <scoops at caltech.edu> wrote:

> I have seen a couple of twilight launches, but at dusk.
> It is one hour before sunrise. Would it get up to sunlight?
> Maybe worth getting up early to look at. And then going back to bed.
>
> .  Scoops
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *J-Walt <jwalt at spontaneousfantasia.com>
> *Date: *October 6, 2015 at 4:38:44 PM PDT
> *Subject: **Vandenberg Launch morning of Oct 8*
>
> OCT 805:49Atlas VSLC-3Vehicle will launch the classified NROL-55 payload
> for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. The vehicle will also carry
> the following secondary payloads: AeroCube-5c and AeroCube-7 (Aerospace
> Corp.); three SNaP-3 spacecraft (Army Space and Missile Defense Center);
> two PropCube spacecraft (Tyvak); two SINOD-D spacecraft (SRI
> International); ARC-1 (University of Alaska-Fairbanks); BisonSat (Salish
> Kootenai College); Fox-1 (AMSAT); and LMRST-Sat (Jet Propulsion
> Laboratory). Liftoff will occur shortly before morning twilight at
> Vandenberg.
> http://www.spacearchive.info/vafbsked.htm
> --
>
> J-Walt
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>
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