<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>-braddock</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Scoops Adamczyk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scoops@caltech.edu" target="_blank">scoops@caltech.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>I have seen a couple of twilight launches, but at dusk.</div><div>It is one hour before sunrise. Would it get up to sunlight?</div>Maybe worth getting up early to look at. And then going back to bed.<div><br></div><div>.  Scoops<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">J-Walt <<a href="mailto:jwalt@spontaneousfantasia.com" target="_blank">jwalt@spontaneousfantasia.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">October 6, 2015 at 4:38:44 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Vandenberg Launch morning of Oct 8</b></span></div><br><div><table summary="Vandenberg rocket and missile launch schedule" align="CENTER" border="1" cellpadding="4" width="750" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;white-space:normal"><tbody><tr valign="TOP"><td align="CENTER" valign="TOP">OCT 8</td><td align="CENTER" valign="TOP">05:49</td><td nowrap valign="TOP">Atlas V</td><td nowrap>SLC-3</td><td valign="TOP">Vehicle 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.</td></tr></tbody></table><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://www.spacearchive.info/vafbsked.htm" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">http://www.spacearchive.info/vafbsked.htm</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">--<span> </span><br><p style="color:rgb(51,153,102);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4" style="font-size:13pt">J-Walt</font><br><font size="2" style="font-size:9pt"><i>Master of the Metaverse</i></font><br><font size="4" style="font-size:13pt">Spontaneous Fantasia</font><br><font size="2" style="font-size:9pt"><b>Virtual Reality Performances</b></font><br><font size="2" style="font-size:9pt"><a href="http://www.spontaneousfantasia.com/" target="_blank">http://www.spontaneousfantasia.com</a></font><br><font size="2" style="font-size:9pt"><a href="tel:626-688-0778" value="+16266880778" target="_blank">626-688-0778</a></font></p></div></font></span></div></blockquote></div><br></div></di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