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Rocket: Delta 2 (7925)
Payload: Deep Impact
Date: January 12, 2005
Time: 1:47:08 p.m. EST (1847:08 GMT)
Site: SLC-17B, Cape Canaveral, Florida
Broadcast: AMC 6, Transponder 9, C-band, 72° West

Mission Status Center

Our pre-launch story



The Payload




NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft will fire a projectile into the heart of Comet Tempel 1 to expose materials frozen inside the rocky snowball since the solar system formed four billion years ago.

Mission overview

Info on comets

The science objectives

Spacecraft fact sheet



Launch weather forecast
Posted: January 7, 2005

 Forecast for Wednesday, January 12

Issued: Friday, January 7
Launch Weather Officer: Johnny Weems, 45th Weather Squadron

Synoptic Discussion: "Substantial high pressure surface and aloft will produce favorable conditions through the latter part of next week. Conditions will begin to transition as the ridge weakens and a cold front approaches next Friday.

"The only concerns for the initial launch day is coastal cloudiness with a slight chance of very brief showers. Moderate east-southeast wind expected but should not approach limits."

Clouds: Scattered-to-broken at 2,500-to-3,000 feet with tops at 6,000-to-8,000 feet

Visibility: 7 miles

Launch Pad Winds: Southeasterly from 130 degrees at 14 gusting to 17 knots

Temperature: 76 to 78 degrees F

Relative Humidity: 70-75 percent

Weather: Isolated coastal showers

Probability of Violating Weather Constraints: 10 percent

Concerns: Coastal cloudiness and showers

 

 24-hour Delay Forecast

Thursday's Probability of Violating Constraints: 20 percent
Concerns: Increasing clouds and chance of showers as front approaches and ridge weakens

 

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