2009 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
2009 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
2009 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
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<strong>NASA</strong> Launch Services <strong>Program</strong><br />
<strong>NASA</strong> <strong>Airborne</strong> <strong>Science</strong> added yet another new role<br />
to its résumé in May when the DC-8, teamed with<br />
Ktech, successfully relayed and recorded telemetry<br />
transmitted by a Delta II rocket boosting a satellite<br />
into orbit. <strong>NASA</strong> Launch Services <strong>Program</strong> (LSP)<br />
asked the <strong>Airborne</strong> <strong>Science</strong> <strong>Program</strong> to show that<br />
the DC-8 could rendezvous over 1100 miles off the<br />
tip of Baja with a rocket launched from Vandenberg<br />
AFB and provide real-time data to the launch team<br />
back at Kennedy Space Center. The Delta II rocket<br />
provided by LSP contractor United Launch Alliance<br />
carried an experimental satellite for the Missile<br />
Defense Agency. Ktech provided the telemetry<br />
tracking and receiving equipment and technical<br />
support team on the DC-8.<br />
Figure 33:<br />
Launching of Delta II rocket from<br />
Vandenberg AFB.<br />
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