1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:03,179 George Diller/NASA Launch Commentator: This is Delta Launch Control. 2 00:00:03,179 --> 00:00:10,210 At this time we�re preparing to de-tank the Delta II rocket based on our decision 3 00:00:20,970 --> 00:00:11,410 to 4 00:00:20,970 --> 00:00:22,930 countdown for the Launch Services Program. 5 00:00:22,930 --> 00:00:29,130 So, Tim, tell us how we began to gradually lead up to what ultimately came to pass. 6 00:00:29,130 --> 00:00:34,050 Tim Dunn/NASA Launch Manager: OK, I�ll be glad to do that George. So obviously 7 00:00:34,050 --> 00:00:37,719 it�s a slight disappointment to the team that we weren�t able to launch today, but 8 00:00:37,719 --> 00:00:38,719 we 9 00:00:38,719 --> 00:00:41,460 understand the factors involved in upper level winds. 10 00:00:41,460 --> 00:00:47,149 If I could take a moment, we had a beautiful countdown. Everything on the Delta II 11 00:00:47,149 --> 00:00:52,300 rocket was rock solid. And the spacecraft had absolutely no issues. 12 00:00:52,300 --> 00:00:58,020 I�d like to thank our 30th Space Wing Air Force partners. They had a clean and green 13 00:00:58,020 --> 00:01:02,039 range. All range instrumentation was terrific. 14 00:01:02,039 --> 00:01:10,290 So we had a very nominal countdown as we loaded liquid oxygen on the vehicle. 15 00:01:10,290 --> 00:01:16,540 The one thing that was kind of dogging us through the countdown was those upper- 16 00:01:16,540 --> 00:01:22,690 level winds. All of our surface-level winds on the ground were green. However we 17 00:01:22,690 --> 00:01:29,470 released weather balloons to track the upper-level atmospheric conditions for wind 18 00:01:29,470 --> 00:01:34,720 speed, wind direction, so we know how to fly through those regions of maximum 19 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:36,720 dynamic pressure. 20 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:42,470 Unfortunately today, both from a loading on the rocket and a controllability of the 21 00:01:42,470 --> 00:01:47,860 rocket, we were in a condition with upper-level winds that we just did not have the 22 00:01:47,860 --> 00:01:53,390 capability to fly the Delta II safely through the maximum dynamic pressure region of 23 00:01:53,390 --> 00:01:58,170 flight. That�s disappointing but those are our launch 24 00:01:58,170 --> 00:01:59,840 rules and we understand how to 25 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:07,480 handle those. And we did everything we could at the last portion of the countdown to 26 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:13,670 try to manipulate that upper-level wind data against a number of different curve-fits 27 00:02:13,670 --> 00:02:19,560 that we can fly differently through those regimes. Just none of those would 28 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:23,780 accommodate our flight path and trajectory today. 29 00:02:23,780 --> 00:02:29,010 So what we�ve done, we�ve executed a scrub for today�s countdown, we�ll de-tank 30 00:02:29,010 --> 00:02:34,530 the rocket and we�re setting up for a 24-hour turnaround. So we�ll be at it again 31 00:02:34,530 --> 00:02:35,530 tomorrow. 32 00:02:35,530 --> 00:02:37,190 George Diller/NASA Launch Commentator: So it the launch window exactly the 33 00:02:37,190 --> 00:02:38,230 same as it was today? 34 00:02:38,230 --> 00:02:41,010 Tim Dunn/NASA Launch Manager: The launch window remains exactly the same. 35 00:02:41,010 --> 00:02:43,610 The same T-0 and the same three-minute launch window. 36 00:02:43,610 --> 00:02:49,880 George Diller/NASA Launch Commentator: So at this point there is really no 37 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:54,780 trouble shooting for the team to do. It�s pretty much just be a standard 24-hour scrub 38 00:02:54,780 --> 00:02:56,390 due to upper-level winds. 39 00:02:56,390 --> 00:03:00,040 Tim Dunn/NASA Launch Manager: That�s absolutely the case. So we have a very 40 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:04,781 professional team both on the range side, on the spacecraft side, and on the launch- 41 00:03:04,781 --> 00:03:06,340 vehicle side. 42 00:03:06,340 --> 00:03:10,710 Everyone is executing their procedures right now to safe their systems. And to set us 43 00:03:10,710 --> 00:03:16,710 up for an opportunity. We�ll go ahead and roll the mobile service tower back around 44 00:03:16,710 --> 00:03:21,480 the rocket. That�ll occur sometime around noon local here on the California coast at 45 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:22,900 Vandenberg. 46 00:03:22,900 --> 00:03:30,730 And then we will go into our return to operations where tomorrow evening, or 47 00:03:30,730 --> 00:03:38,080 actually, later this evening we�ll begin to retract the MST about in the 8:30 to 9 48 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:39,319 o�clock timeframe. 49 00:03:39,319 --> 00:03:43,430 And then be back on console about 1 a.m. tomorrow morning 50 00:03:43,430 --> 00:03:46,540 George Diller/NASA Launch Commentator: Well Tim, thank you very much and I 51 00:03:46,540 --> 00:03:49,900 guess we�ll be back again tomorrow and take it again from the top. 52 00:03:49,900 --> 00:03:51,100 Tim Dunn/NASA Launch Manager: Sounds good. 53 00:03:51,100 --> 00:03:53,760 George Diller/NASA Launch Commentator: Thanks so much. Tim Dunn, our 54 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:58,950 launch manager. So at this point this is going to conclude our launch coverage for 55 00:03:58,950 --> 00:04:06,130 tonight and we will be back at 4 a.m. on Friday morning Pacific time, tomorrow, to 56 00:04:06,130 --> 00:04:11,209 resume our launch coverage and hopefully to a toward a successful liftoff of the