[SGVHAK] Vandenberg Launch morning of Oct 8

[Matthew Campbell]

Nice Braddock, how did the AMSAT mission go?

Matt

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Braddock Gaskill <braddock at braddock.com>
wrote:

> 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
>> *Master of the Metaverse*
>> Spontaneous Fantasia
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>> 626-688-0778
>>
>>
>>
>
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