Comments on: There Will Be No Dawn http://asymptotia.com/2007/07/08/there-will-be-no-dawn/ Fri, 24 May 2013 15:41:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Dawn at Dawn - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2007/07/08/there-will-be-no-dawn/comment-page-1/#comment-81836 Dawn at Dawn - Asymptotia Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:47:36 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/07/08/there-will-be-no-dawn/#comment-81836 [...] Recall that (as mentioned in my post with the doom-laden title) the Dawn mission was postponed by several months due to unfavourable launch conditions. Recall also that the celestial window for launching Dawn will not come again for another seventeen years, if it does not launch over the next couple of weeks or so! This is a bit scary therefore. [...]

]]> By: Amara http://asymptotia.com/2007/07/08/there-will-be-no-dawn/comment-page-1/#comment-62728 Amara Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:35:14 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/07/08/there-will-be-no-dawn/#comment-62728 The period for the new launch date will be between 7 September and 15 October, probably morning windows (less trouble for thunderstorms). In order to refine the dates further, the project will consider the launch vehicle readiness, the weather (as always), and availability of ships for post-launch tracking.

In these next two months, then, Dawn will be quasi-stored. The fairing will be removed, so that the spacecraft and the third stage can go into a transportation vehicle lovingly called ‘the can’, and moved off of the launch pad. The first and second stages of the Delta II rocket will stay on the launch pad.

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