SLN: Up to the Minute, I'm Charles Atkeison. On Tuesday, Nov 4th, NASA space shuttle program managers released an updated launch manifest for America's space shuttle fleet through 2009.
Following this month's launch of Endeavour on STS-126 on November 14th, the KSC area will begin to focus on a busy 2009, and the first year under the new Obama presidential administration.
Vehicle ......................Planned Date ..... Payload
Discovery STS-119 ........ Feb. 12 ......... truss segment, solar arrays
Endeavour STS-127 ...... May 15 .......... Japan's Kibo Experiments
Atlantis STS-128 .......... July 30 .......... Multipurpose logistics module
Discovery STS-129 ....... Oct. 15 .......... EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 1 & 2
Atlantis STS-125 .......... Fall '09 ......... Hubble Servicing Mission #4
Endeavour STS-130 ..... Dec. 10 ......... Node 3
The fourth Hubble space telescope servicing mission will not fly before this July; and with the need of another space shuttle on the adjacent launch pad, this might mean that the HST flight could fly on another orbiter or fly around November following Atlantis' July-Aug. flight.
Engineers at Goddard space flight center are testing hardware needed for Hubble, and that will not be complete until June possibly - thus the mission delay.
Live from Cape Canaveral at T-9 days, 11 hours until the launch of Endeavour... this is spacelaunchnews.com.
The next launch from Cape Canaveral should be that of a Delta IV rocket from launch complex 37 here at Cape Canaveral Air Station sometime in mid-December.
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