October 13, 2005

Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-3749)

George Diller 
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
(Phone: 321/867-2468) 

STATUS REPORT: E05-13

EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE STATUS REPORT: E05-013

Mission:  Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite 
Observations and CloudSat (CALIPSO/CloudSat) 
Launch Vehicle: Boeing Delta 7420 with Dual Payload Attach Fitting 
Launch Pad: Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
Launch Date:  NET November 2005 (exact date TBD)
Launch Window:  5:01 a.m. EST (2:01 a.m. PST)

The launch was postponed pending resolution of a problem encountered 
while testing launch-vehicle flight-termination system batteries. 
CALIPSO and CloudSat are installed within the Dual Payload Attach 
Fitting and are undergoing final battery charging in preparation for 
transport to the launch pad. Except for the battery problem, Delta II 
preparations at NASA's Space Launch Complex 2 continue to go well.

Mission: New Horizons
Launch Vehicle: Lockheed Martin Atlas V 551 (AV-010)
Launch Pad: Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
Launch Date: Jan. 11, 2006
Launch Window: 2:07 to 4:07 p.m. EST

The Centaur stage was hoisted onto the Atlas booster on Tuesday, and 
mating should be completed by this weekend. New Horizons spacecraft 
testing and processing activities in the clean room are on schedule. 
The instrument to measure the solar wind around Pluto was installed 
in the spacecraft and tested Oct. 6. Spacecraft communications 
testing with Deep Space Network tracking stations is scheduled for 
tomorrow and Saturday.

Previous status reports are available on the Web at: 

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/status/2005 

	
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