NASA Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report 19 January 2007

Mission: THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions
During Substorms)

Launch Pad: 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Delta II

Launch Date: Feb. 15, 2007

Launch Time: 6:07:37 – 6:26:37 p.m. EST

At the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space
Center, engineers and technicians successfully completed spin-balance
testing of THEMIS on Jan. 12. The prelaunch processing of the
spacecraft is now finished. THEMIS awaits mating to the upper stage
booster, scheduled for Jan. 26. The spacecraft will then be installed
into its transportation canister and moved to Launch Complex 17 on
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for mating with the Delta II on Feb.
2.

At Pad 17-B, the nine solid rocket boosters were attached around the
base of the Delta II first stage last week as scheduled. The second
stage was hoisted atop the first stage today. The attempts were
postponed on Wednesday due to high winds and on Thursday due to rain.
The payload fairing is scheduled to be lifted into the mobile service
tower on Monday.

Previous status reports are available on the Web at:

http://
www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/status/2007