10-11-2019, 08:34 PM
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The Un-Tuckian
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
Posts: 39,517
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NASA launched a weather satellite last night. They launched it from this, the Lockheed L-1011 STARGAZER:
It was the Ionospheric Connection Explorer or ICON satellite, and it was on a 52,000 lb Pegasus rocket.
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"It's dropping 52,000 pounds, but the plane still has the same lift," he said. "...so the plane climbs fairly rapidly about 1,200 to 1,500 feet as the rocket's falling."
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