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#ULA United Launch Alliance | #AtlasV #NROL42 – Mission launch profile…..

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On 21st September 2017 Thursday West coast time, is the United Launch Alliance of NROL-42- National Reconnaissance Office Satellite, launching from the West Coast Californian coast line from Launch Complex three from Vandenberg Air Force Base… The launch window of the Atlas V 541 opens at 2238 hours Pacific Date Time…in which the live stream of the event will be stream broadcast at Sept. 21 at 2218 Hours Pacific Date Time in which will be a night time launch due to the nature of the position of the payload need to be placed.

The client is the National Reconnaissance Office Launch Enterprise- Air Force, in which the NROL-42 is launch from an Atlas V 541 configuration, in which the primary stage is an Atlas V, with four core solid rocket boosters, in which the primary carrier stage is powered by a RD-180 Engine, with a secondary Centaur Stage is powered by a Areojet Rocketdyne RL10C-1 Engine..

The NROL-42- is a Data observationally data gathering communications assessment satellite in which one of many purposes is also assessments of weather observation also earth environmental sciences of data analysis natural disasters, earthquakes, tsunamis, flooding’s, and fires… also provides the provisions of communications of supporting peacekeeping and humanitarian relief operations

#ULA – United Launch Alliance #BOEING | #WGS8 – Delta four- launching of the Wideband Global SATCOM Eight….. Launch profile what’s to come…

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On 7th December 2016 the Day of infamy which in remembrance day for the braven heroic women and men whom loss their lives in an Imperial Japanese attack Pearl Harbour Hawaii  on 1941 ten years after World War Two started in KMT controlled Republic of China on the Marco Polo bridge in 1931, to commemorated that remembrance day is the “Boeing constructed Wide Global SATCOM Eight”, from Cape Canaveral Air force Station; Florida from ULA- United Launch Alliance,  Space Launch Complex 37, SLC37… is the launching of a payload required from the United States Air Force, in which it’s the eighth Wideband Global SATCOM….  As no time specifics for the launch time itself, but the Payload, Boeing- WGS-8 is launched on a carrier rocket, by a Delta four, Delta four medium plus (5.4) configuration….

The launching profile Specifics for the Launch of the WGS-8 from Launch Complex 37, from Cape Canaveral Air force station, Florida.. in which the window of the Launch is in between 18:53 to 19:42 Eastern Standard Time.. With the event broadcast starting at 18:33 hours Eastern Standard Time …..

The payload itself is an Untied States Air Force Satellite client, in which providing essentials Data communications, with an extremely High Capacity enhancement capabilities to the American Defence forces, personal and systems for the next Decade… In the WGS-8 one of many primary purposes is itself ulitizites itself as Command and Control, Communications Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR), in which provides the provisions of Combat Data analysis support of the theater of operations of informationally… Its communications broadcast systems sits on UHF frequencies in the allocation of 500MHz of the X-band and one GHz of the Ka Band spectrum..  As WGS-7 is in operations, the Eighth is one of series on contract order among with the network of ninth and tenth underway..

One of the essential components of the WSG-8 is it’s propulsion systems, in which as a industrial leading on utilizing the 702HP Boeing satellite Platform in a cost effective Xenon-ion Propulsion Systems-XIPS in which with  moving effectively with in obtaining that Data…

UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE | ATLAS FIVE – 541 NROL-35 launch Highlights…?

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On 12 December 2014 on a beautiful sunny partial cloudy day, on the west coast of the United States, in California, Vandenberg Air Force Base… On a night launch, an Atlas five rocket was prepared to send a payload, in which is a NROL-35, and National Reconnaissance Office 35 a Reconnaissance satellite …. In this Launch, in collaboration with the “ULA-Untied Launch Alliance” with the “United States Air Force” it is the first time flight of a RL10C rocket engine used on the upper staging of the Centaur component of the rocket staging…

As seen here some awesome highlights done by “Matthew Travis”  shows the progress from a three week from September  assembly on the launch complex on Vandenberg Air Force Base’s launch complex three… to the getting ready prime fueling  for a traditional military  launch…

There’s one thing interesting in this flight its mission patch logo, in its design… In having gone to the more of a Marvel, DC comics like a Dragon age mix in with War or Warcraft  type of look with an Awesome female Mage warrior, in a dark Gothic Mage purple dress, with holding a guarded trident in readiness to follow with her single amber charge from one hand.. Meaning ready to defend…  With her energy charged fiercing purple hair… like she’s ready for battle….