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Final Delta IV Heavy Launch Coming Up
Rocky Raab
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The last in the long family of Delta rockets is set for launch today from the Cape. Liftoff is 1:40 pm Eastern. For more details and to watch - LINK
On a personal note, Deltas were my favorite rocket, both to watch and to narrate for launch. The Delta II and III models were not only very reliable but just plain beautiful.
I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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New Launch time 2:45 Eastern
I noticed in my launch app- unfortunately. I’ll be in flight between Dallas and Orlando when it lites off.
Winds are a problem, but they're GO.
HOLD Stand by…
Scrub for today 24-hr turnaround.
Worked on the Delta ll second stage engines. The injector assembly was made with stacked platelet assemblies to enable complicated flow channels in the injector dome. We had to hydro test them at high pressure to make sure that all orifices were clear, and streams met at the proper angle. Saw many a very wet engineer climb out of the tank.
New launch date/time TBD.
I know a little bit about supplying the LO2 required for these launches - and let's just say those suppliers aren't exactly all broken up when a launch is scrubbed...
Some what related
Many years ago 25 or 30?
The Company I worked for( Honda) use to bring in motivational speakers and just interesting people for the employees and sometimes to hellp fill in slow time when things were not selling or diply issues
Any way once a older fellow came in for the day
He was a machinist? But also worked for NASA
they Contracted him to build some trye of mixing ring for the rockets
And it had to be perfect or having big boom he told us the tolerances were for the most part zero
I don't remember his name and a lot of details
at the time it was intersting but so much i was commiting much to memory
only he was retired and did this work at home for them and how precise his work had to be machining the ring he had photos no t like I said thay was years ago