Re: Pluto - New Horizons PreLaunch Conference / Launch NASA TV


Herb Schaltegger wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:25:45 -0600, snidely wrote
> (in article <1137612345.069868.212530@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>
> > Herb Schaltegger wrote:
> > [...]
> >> It was a problem with ground-level wind gusts exceeding the 33 mile
> >> per hour limit within the last few minutes of the count.
> >
> > As well as during most of the rest of the launch window.
>
> What they stated on the live video feed is that so long as there were
> not gusts above the maximum within a certain time window prior to T-0,
> they were allowed to launch. There was a gust a T-2:34 or so that
> exceeded that limit, ergo a count halt was called.

Yabbut, that was their last T-0 in the window...it had slipped several
times before due to the wind gusts and 1x due to a tracking station. I
was following the live video, also.

/dps

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