Re: Three Planet Conjunction, best viewed this weekend (May 25th and 26th)
Posted by cypresstx on 5/25/2013, 4:33 am
awesome pics Chris, I'll have to check out the sky tonight.  

more on WGS 5:  
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/05/ula-delta-iv-launch-wgs-5-satellite/

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/delta/d362/

WGS 1 was launched in October 2007 to cover the vast U.S. Pacific Command that stretches from the U.S. western coast all the way to Southeast Asia.

WGS 2 satellite followed with an April 2009 launch to serve U.S. Central Command and the forces in Afghanistan, Iraq and other parts of Southwest Asia.

WGS 3 went up in December 2009 to cover U.S. European Command and U.S. Africa Command, plus lend additional support over the Middle East.

WGS 4 inaugurated the upgraded Block 2 series for improved communications with unmanned aerial drones when it was launched in January 2012 to cover the Middle East and Southeast Asia for use by U.S. Central Command and U.S. Pacific Command.

The inclusion of WGS 5 will extend the Wideband Global SATCOM constellation to the Americas for a host of users.

"It gives us the CONUS coverage we don't have today," Schaub said.

"Think of it as this whole region, so NORTHCOM, SOUTHCOM, TRANSCOM, STRATCOM, MDA, a whole lot of U.S. and western hemisphere-based users will be using this satellite," Schaub added, referring to U.S. Northern Command, Southern Command, Transportation Command, Strategic Command and the Missile Defense Agency.


wish that was a weather satellite, though I am sure the 10-satellite military constellation they have planned is much more important than wind, precip, aerosol or cloud data
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