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Launch!
The Delta 2 lifted off without a problem at 10:22 GMT 20 May 2005...



Slight wind gusts late in the countdown caused some glitches with the guidance system, but the launch team was able to resolve that issue and get the rocket off the ground at the opening of its 10-minute launch window

The last satellite in the series, NOAA-N Prime, is scheduled for launch in 2007.


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A Delta II rocket launch is set for Wednesday, May 11, 2005, from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, US, with a launch opportunity from 11:21 to 11:31 GMT.


It will launch the NOAA-N satellite, the latest in the series of advanced TIROS-N (ATN) orbiting platforms.
The spacecraft's enhanced instruments will support multiple Earth-observing tasks.
NOAA-N will replace NOAA-16, in operation since September 2000, and join NOAA-17, launched in June 2002. Once in orbit, NOAA-N will be renamed NOAA-18.

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-- Edited by Blobrana at 23:13, 2005-05-04

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