* Astronomy

Tuesday was a big night at NASA. The Air Force's satellite finally launched into orbit.
Nearing 8 o'clock, "Tac Sat 3" sliced through the twilight sky dazzling its audience Dozens of spectators poured out of buses and took seats on bleachers, to see the 60-million dollar rocket blast off.

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TLE Data

OBJECT A
1 35001U 09028A   09140.17456709  .00003726  00000-0  10000-3 0    28
2 35001 040.4577 048.1453 0026008 311.8349 048.0222 15.38720913    27

OBJECT B
1 35002U 09028B   09140.17443970  .00003820  00000-0  10000-3 0    20
2 35002 040.4690 048.1556 0025897 313.8852 045.7409 15.39453385    22

OBJECT C
1 35003U 09028C   09140.17446004  .00003875  00000-0  10000-3 0    11
2 35003 040.4700 048.1525 0029522 318.3420 041.5333 15.39772250    37

T plus 22 minutes
The three CubeSats satellites are now scheduled to be deployed

There will be no confirmation of separation until the satellites come back into telemetry range.

T plus 14 minutes

The launch vehicle has entered transfer orbit, and TacSat 3 now separated

T plus 6 minutes.
All systems nominal.