Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

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Feb. 26, 2010

George H. Diller
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468
george.h.diller@nasa.gov

STATUS REPORT: ELV-022610

EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE STATUS REPORT

Spacecraft: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-P)
Launch Vehicle: Delta IV
Launch Pad:  Complex 37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Launch Date:  March 2, 2010
Launch Window: 6:19 - 7:19 p.m. EST 

The Flight Readiness Review for the launch of the Delta IV rocket with 
GOES-P was held on Feb. 25. The last evaluation, the Launch Readiness 
Review, will be held on March 1.

At Launch Complex 37, closeouts of the Delta IV and GOES-P are 
beginning. A launch countdown mission dress rehearsal was 
successfully completed Friday.

On launch day, the mobile service tower will be retracted away from 
the Delta IV at 7:30 a.m. The terminal countdown will begin when the 
countdown clock emerges from a planned built-in hold at 1 p.m.

GOES-P will be launched into orbit for NASA and NOAA by Boeing Launch 
Services aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket under an FAA 
license. 


Previous status reports are available at:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/status/index.html 
 

	
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