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George Diller/NASA Launch Commentator: From
Launch Complex 41 at

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Cape Canaveral in Florida, this is Atlas Launch
Control at T-2 hours and holding.

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The countdown clock entered a planned 30 minute
built-in hold approximately 6 minutes

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ago.

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And we’re now just two-and-a-half hours
away from liftoff of NASA’s TDRS-L

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Tracking Data Relay Satellite.

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Launches atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas
V rocket

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from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral.

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Launch window today extends from 9:05 to 9:45
p.m., a duration of 40 minutes.

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This will be the 43rd Atlas V launch.

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Of those, TDRS-L will be the 11th NASA mission
to

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launch on an Atlas V rocket.

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(not intelligible)…had a weather briefing
with Clay Flinn, our launch weather officer

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from

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the 45th Weather Squadron.

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And the conditions remain generally favorable,
with just a 10 percent chance of not

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meeting our launch weather criteria.

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Currently at the launch pad the temperature
is 55 degrees with winds from the north five

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to eight knots.

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At launch time the winds will be from the
north 10 to 15 knots.

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The temperature will be 46 to 47 degrees.

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Visibility seven miles or greater with scattered
clouds.

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And right now, there are no weather constraints
toward a launch tonight other than the

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possibility of some thick clouds from the
north from an approaching front.

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Otherwise, good conditions for a launch tonight.

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Looking aloft, no shears observed.

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Currently, the highest wind is at 45,000 feet
at 105 knots.

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At this time,

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all of our launch preparations continue to
go smoothly.

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We’re still targeting a 9:05 p.m. liftoff
tonight.