TACSAT launch from Wallops Island.

[jsteller at spottydog.us]

Actually, I wasn't trying to point out anything in your note.  I worked on TACSAT-1 several years ago now.  It was supposed to be a quick turn-around, launch yesterday kind of contract.  We completed work on the satellite long before the launcher was ready.  Still waiting...

--- JST


>I didn't think anyone was reading my 'mail'.. so I wasn't too careful
>regarding detail.
>
>TACSAT-2 launched on Saturday. 
>
>http://www.vs.afrl.af.mil/factsheets/tacsat-2.pdf
>
>Iain
>--- John Teller <jsteller at spottydog.us> wrote:
>
>> Interesting, TACSAT 1 should have launched a looooong time ago on what 
>> should have been the first launch of SpaceX's Falcon 1.  Looks like it 
>> might be a while, since SpaceX is really monkeying around with it these 
>> days - look for a static firing in mid-January.
>
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