WGS-4 = Delta IV-M+(5,4) - 20.01.12 04:38 ЛМВ - Canaveral

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19 January - WGS-4 - Delta IV-M+(5,4) - Canaveral SLC-37B

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Next Delta 4 rocket to boost military communications[/size]
BY JUSTIN RAY
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: October 11, 2011

The United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket that will deploy a vital communications satellite for U.S. military forces overseas was placed atop its Cape Canaveral pad this week.

Liftoff is targeted for January 19 to deliver the Air Force's fourth Wideband Global SATCOM spacecraft into orbit and continue ongoing efforts to upgrade the military's main communications infrastructure.

Each WGS has 10 times the capacity of the aging Defense Satellite Communications System spacecraft they are replacing.

The satellites supply communications such as maps and data to soldiers on the battlefield, relay video from unmanned aerial reconnaissance drones, route voice calls and data messaging, and even offer quality-of-life considerations like television broadcasts and email delivery to the troops.

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 warfighters 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.
 
Now comes WGS 4 early next year with its built-in enhancements to support the higher data rates needed by airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.

The Air Force plans to put WGS 4 into operation over the Middle East and Southeast Asia for U.S. Central Command and U.S. Pacific Command.

Getting the 6.5-ton craft into orbit is the mission for the powerful Delta 4 rocket, which began its pre-flight campaign at the launch pad this week.

The bright orange and white rocket, stretching 170 feet long, emerged from the Horizontal Integration Facility at 4:30 p.m. EDT Monday. Riding a 36-wheel, diesel-powered transporter, the Delta took an hour-long trip down the road and up the pad's ramp to Cape Canaveral's Complex 37.

Initial assembly of the rocket, including mating of the cryogenic upper stage with the Common Booster Core first stage using a precision laser alignment system, had been completed inside the Horizontal Integration Facility over the past couple of months.

After the vehicle arrived at the base of the pad, technicians went to work Monday evening getting equipment ready to raise the rocket vertically. The pallets cradling the Delta were tied down to the Fixed Pad Erector and the transporter used to drive the rocket to the pad disengaged to pull away.

The erector system and its hydraulic pistons then lifted the rocket upright at 10 a.m. EDT Tuesday, setting the vehicle atop the pad's launch table within 20 minutes.

Workers later unhooked the booster from the cradles, allowing the erector platform along with the pallets to lower back to the ground at 5 p.m.
 
Over the next three months at Complex 37, a full pre-launch test program and the final rocket assembly steps will be carried out, including installation of the four strap-on solid-fuel motors to the first stage and attachment of the payload.

WGS 4 is scheduled for shipment from the Boeing satellite manufacturing factory in Los Angeles to Cape Canaveral on November 14 to undergo checkouts and fueling before joining its rocket at the pad.

When fully stacked and its nose cone in place, this Delta 4 Medium+(5,4) rocket will tower 217 feet tall.

It will be 358th launch of a Delta rocket since 1960 and the 18th for the Delta 4 program since 2002. [/size]

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Delta 4 rocket rolls out to launch pad[/size]

The United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket that will deploy the U.S. military's fourth Wideband Global SATCOM communications spacecraft into orbit in January was transported from the Horizontal Integration Facility to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral's Complex 37 on the afternoon of Monday, October 10.

A 36-wheel, diesel-powered transporter moved the 170-foot-long rocket the short trip down the road and up the pad's ramp to begin preparations for the WGS 4 mission.

Initial assembly of the rocket, including mating of the cryogenic upper stage with the Common Booster Core first stage using a precision laser alignment system, was completed in the Horizontal Integration Facility. Technicians will finish putting the vehicle together at the launch pad by installing the four strap-on solid rocket boosters and attaching the satellite payload.

When completed, this Delta 4 Medium+ (5,4) rocket will tower 217 feet tall for its January 19 launch that continues the Air Force's efforts to upgrade the military's main communications infrastructure.

This 3-page gallery of photographs captures the rollout event.

Photo credit: Justin Ray/Spaceflight Now[/size]

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Vital military communications craft getting ready to go up[/size]
BY JUSTIN RAY
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: November 17, 2011

A spacecraft that will improve communications with the U.S. military's aerial drones currently employed in some of the world's hotspots has arrived at Cape Canaveral to prepare for blastoff in January.

The Air Force says it plans to put this WGS 4 spacecraft into operation over the Middle East and Southeast Asia for U.S. Central Command and U.S. Pacific Command when it becomes operational early next year.


The Block 2 series of satellites -- WGS 4, 5 and 6 -- are pictured in their manufacturing factory. Credit: Boeing

 The satellite joins the expanding fleet of Wideband Global SATCOM communications satellites that form the Pentagon's worldwide communications backbone across all branches of the military.

Three WGS satellites have been deployed, and now WGS 4 is being readied to launch as the first craft in the program's upgraded Block 2 series.

All of the craft provide X- and Ka-band communications, plus enable crossbanding between the frequencies through the onboard channelizer unit. No matter which frequency is being beamed from the ground terminal in the hands of a user, it can be routed through the orbiting satellite.

"It does that by using a channelizer, which is kind of the heart of the satellite which is able to convert the frequencies from X-to-Ka or X-to-X or Ka-to-Ka, and that provides a certain bandwidth availability and a number of channels associated with that," said Mark Spiwak, the WGS program director for satellite-builder Boeing.

But the new Block 2 satellites come with a bypass feature for aerial reconnaissance vehicle communications to skip the crossbanding path, opening up the amount of data being transmitted through the spacecraft.

"For these next three satellites -- 4, 5 and 6 -- we converted two of the channels to be a bypass around the channelizer. So it's only Ka-band, it doesn't have the ability if you use these two channels to crossband X-to-Ka, but it provides three times the bandwidth," Spiwak said.

That increased capacity will directly help the military's remotely-controlled unmanned drone programs, which are used for surveillance, intelligence-gathering and offensive operations.

"So (we're) basically providing to users two uplink and two downlink channels that go around the channelizer that are about three times the bandwidth as the normal channels," Spiwak said.

"So why is that good? That's good because as the Global Hawks, the Reapers, the Predators, all of the AISR platforms, as they are converting to their different terminals, obviously the more bandwidth is good for them, and you can lock on to one or several Global Hawks, multiple Reapers and Predators, and the more bandwidth allows the operators to pump more data through. You've got that wider pipe on two uplink and two downlink channels," Spiwak said.

"That's kind of the main change (for Block 2). It still has all of the X-band flexibility, Ka-band flexibility that the first three have, but this has these extra, larger pipes that you can really pump a lot of data through."

Built by The Boeing Co. in California, WGS 4 was delivered to the Florida spaceport aboard an Air Force transport aircraft, departing Los Angeles International Airport Monday night and touching down on the space shuttle runway at Kennedy Space Center early Tuesday.

The shipping crate holding the satellite was offloaded from the plane and hauled across the river to the commercial Astrotech processing campus in Titusville where WGS 4 will undergo the final steps needed before launch.

"We will put fuel into it in the early part of December, we encapsulate in the middle of December," Spiwak said.

A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket is standing atop the Complex 37 pad awaiting the satellite's arrival. The booster was rolled out Oct. 10 to start its own pre-flight checkout sequence.

Liftoff is scheduled for Jan. 19 during a window extending from 7:38 to 9:11 p.m. EST (0038-0211 GMT Jan. 20).

Boeing expects to finish constructing WGS 5 next February for its launch from the Cape in January 2013. The WGS 6 bird, funded in collaboration with the Australian military, will be completed next summer for its anticipated launch in the summer of 2013.

"We're ready to keep building these, to look at evolutions, we're talking to the government on enhancing the capability, and then be ready to launch them when the launch vehicles are available," Spiwak said.

The Air Force has ordered WGS 7 and contracted for the long-lead parts needed to build WGS 8. There's also an option for WGS 9.

The Defense Department and Boeing are working to streamline the future spacecraft, building upon the program's heritage to reduce testing costs and lower the overall prices through a commercial-like operating model.

"This was a very long negotiation, this was the government saying we need to buy these satellites more cost-effectively and Boeing responding," Spiwak said.

"We were able to work fairly close with the Air Force to get a program plan that they're comfortable with and we were able to take about 12-15 percent of the cost out and provide the same product to the government for less."

WGS spacecraft supply communications such as maps and data to soldiers on the battlefield, route voice calls and data messaging, and even offer quality-of-life considerations like television broadcasts and email delivery to the troops.

They are replacing the aging Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) spacecraft. Each WGS has 10 times the capacity of a DSCS satellite, allowing users to process and receive data quicker than before.

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 warfighters 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.

"I'll use the analogy 'kid with a new toy' -- finding out this toy does some pretty neat things, so we get very positive feedback from the customer community on how they are utilizing and doing things they never thought they'd be able to do with the satellites," Spiwak said.[/size]

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Delta 4 rocket and Air Force payload joined for launch[/size]
BY JUSTIN RAY
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: January 4, 2012

Moving from the cleanroom to the Cape Canaveral launching pad, the next update to the U.S. military's space-based communications network was hoisted aboard its booster rocket Wednesday.


File image of a Delta payload leaving Astrotech. Credit: NASA TV
 
The Wideband Global SATCOM 4 spacecraft, better known as WGS 4, will ride a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket into orbit Jan. 19 from the Florida spaceport's pad 37B.

Liftoff will be possible during a 93-minute window extending from 7:38 to 9:11 p.m. EST (0038-0211 GMT).

Already tucked inside the rocket's five-meter-diameter, 47-foot-tall nose cone, a process that was accomplished before the holidays while still at the spacecraft preparation facility in Titusville, WGS 4 was driven on a specialized transporter across the river, through Kennedy Space Center and over to Complex 37 in the frigid predawn darkness Wednesday.

After entering the pad and climbing the ramp to the launch site around 3:30 a.m. EST, the motorized hauler was parked on the backside of the mobile service gantry to complete the 25-mile trip.

There, the pad's crane lowered down to take hold of the payload for carefully hoisting the 6.5-ton satellite into the tower and positioning it atop the rocket's second stage for attachment.


File image of Delta payload ready for hoisting into the pad tower. Credit: NASA
 
The milestone move kicks off the final two weeks of the pre-launch campaign, which will include integrated testing between the Delta 4 rocket and WGS 4 spacecraft, closeouts of the vehicle compartments for flight and a series of readiness reviews to verify all systems are "go" for blastoff.

It will be first rocket launch from Cape Canaveral of the new year and begins the Delta 4 rocket's 2012 that is dedicated to military service with as many as five flights scheduled from both Florida and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to deploy WGS, GPS and classified National Reconnaissance Office spacecraft.

WGS 4 starts an enhanced "block" of satellites with improved bandwidth for communications to the military's remotely-controlled unmanned aerial drones, which are used for surveillance, intelligence-gathering and offensive operations.

The Air Force says it plans to put this WGS 4 spacecraft into service over the Middle East and Southeast Asia for U.S. Central Command and U.S. Pacific Command.


An artist's concept of WGS antenna arrangement. Credit: Boeing
 
Weighing about 13,000 pounds at launch, the craft's communications package provides shaped, steerable spotbeams of bandwidth wherever requested across its field-of-view for Ka- and X-band frequencies, plus the onboard capability to convert signals from one band to the other. The data transmission rates range from 2.1 to 3.6 Gbps. Once fully unfurled in space, the craft's solar-power wings will span 134 feet.

Three WGS spacecraft are operating in geosynchronous orbit today, and The Boeing Co. has four more in production at its El Segundo factory in Los Angeles. The craft are built upon the company's powerhouse 702-model design.

For over four decades, the Defense Satellite Communications System was the foundation for flowing secure information to military forces around the globe. But that heritage system is being phased out as the aging craft retire and the new WGS satellites ascend to orbit to take advantage of new technology.

The final DSCS craft was launched by a Delta 4 rocket in 2003. (Our launch story)


An artist's concept of WGS spotbeams. Credit: Boeing
 
Each WGS bird possesses 10 times the capacity of a DSCS satellite and offers 19 coverage areas with its steerable antennas versus 8 under the heritage craft.

The X-band communications through DSCS and WGS allow data, photos and video to be relayed to troops on the battlefield. But WGS also brings Ka-band to the table for high-volume broadcasting to user terminals across the reception area.

At the heart of each WGS is an internal box called a digital channelizer that enables a user with a Ka-band terminal to seamlessly connect to someone with an X-band terminal, or vice versa.

But the new Block 2 satellites, beginning with WGS 4, come with a bypass feature for unmanned aerial drone communications to skip the crossbanding path and use two uplink and two downlink channels that offer three times the bandwidth as the normal channels, opening up a much wider pipeline for data to flow.


File image of Delta 4 Medium+(5,4) on the pad for WGS 3. Credit: ULA
 
The Delta 4 carrying WGS 4 will be flying in the Medium+(5,4) configuration, which is the most powerful of the Medium-version rockets and below only the triple-core Heavy in the modular family's lineup.

The Medium+(5,4) has a five-meter-diameter upper stage loaded with more cryogenic propellants than the optional four-meter motor used for other launches, such as GPS missions. The rocket also has a full set of four solid-fuel boosters strapped to the first stage, double the number used for GPS and other lower-weight payloads.

The first stage is powered by the RS-68 hydrogen-fed main engine and the upper stage has the RL10B-2 engine, the powerplants used on all 17 Delta 4 missions to date.

With WGS 4 now aboard, the fully stacked rocket stands 217 feet, 7 inches tall and looks ready for blastoff in just 15 days.[/size]

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2012
The combined Delta 4 rocket and its Wideband Global SATCOM 4 spacecraft payload have successfully completed a thorough electrical test that simulated the countdown and booster's trek into a supersynchronous orbit in preparation for the real blastoff next week.

The craft was delivered to Cape Canaveral's pad 37B and mounted atop the United Launch Alliance-made rocket last Tuesday. The Integrated Systems Test then followed to verify the booster and cargo were in proper sync for flight.

"We completed our Integrated Systems Test this past weekend, which is an end-to-end simulation of the rocket as if it was in flight, and exercised the whole system as well as some of the interfaces with the satellite. That was a major activity we just completed (and) that was the most significant task remaining," said Col. Ron Fortson, the Air Force's mission director for the launch.

Now, technicians are moving into the last round of preps needed to ready the Delta and launch pad facility infrastructure for liftoff next Thursday, Jan. 19.

"All in all, it's a very typical set of final-week-before-launch connections, closeouts and subsystem testing," said Jim Sponnick, United Launch Alliance vice president of mission operations.

Loading of propellant into the vehicle's attitude control system was underway Tuesday, and upcoming activities include final ordnance connections, closing out the compartments up and down the rocket and a handful of subsystem tests planned for early next week.

Built by The Boeing Co. in California, WGS 4 was delivered to the Florida spaceport aboard an Air Force transport aircraft on Nov. 15. It spent about six weeks at the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville getting loaded with nearly 4,700 pounds of fuel and oxidizer maneuvering propellant, a hazardous operation completed on Dec. 5, then being encapsulated into the two-piece rocket nose cone on Dec. 15.

"We have gone through our prelaunch operations, all have occurred nominally," said Dave Madden, director of the Military Satellite Communications Systems Directorate at the Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center.

Transport to the launch pad took place on Jan. 4 to join the spacecraft with its ride to space.

"It is sitting there, ready for launch," Madden told reporters in a pre-flight media briefing Tuesday.

The satellite should become operational over the Indian Ocean this summer, providing enhanced communications services to deployed military forces in the Middle East and surrounding areas.

Heaving the craft aloft will look much the same as the previous WGS 3 mission in December 2009 that also used a Delta 4 rocket.

"It is the same configuration vehicle and essentially flying the same sort of mission profile as well," Sponnick said.

"We are ready to launch WGS 4."

Watch this page for continuing updates on the launch and join us for play-by-play reports throughout the countdown and live streaming video of the flight on Jan. 19.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012
1430 GMT (9:30 a.m. EST)
Meteorologists' outlook for the Thursday night weather is unchanged in predicting a 90 percent chance of launching, says the latest forecast issued this morning.

They have slightly decreased the wind speeds, however, in calling for just a few clouds at 3,000 feet, northeasterly winds of 8 peaking to 12 knots and a temperature of 58 degrees F.

Out at Complex 37, technicians have begun retracting the swinging access platforms on the mobile service tower and gotten the flame deflector moved into position in front of the pad's launch table. The Launch Readiness Review is planned for Wednesday.

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А как выглядит эректор Д4? есть фото процесса?

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А как выглядит эректор Д4? есть фото процесса?

http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2003/photorelease/q4/pr_031210s.html

(кликабельно)



http://www.floridatoday.com/content/blogs/space/2009/02/delta-iv-rocket-raised-at-cape.shtml

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Big launch coming up Thursday at Cape Canaveral[/size]

 After nearly five years of construction and testing, the U.S. military's next satellite with voluminous throughput to pump vital communications to battlefield forces awaits blastoff Thursday night from Cape Canaveral. The $464 million Wideband Global SATCOM 4 spacecraft will ride a Delta 4 rocket off the pad at 7:38 p.m. EST (0038 GMT)[/size].

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/delta/d358/launchtimeline.html

WGS 4 launch timeline[/size]
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Updated: January 14, 2012
 
T-00:05.5   Engine start
The RS-68 main engine begins to ignite as the liquid hydrogen fuel valve is opened, creating a large fireball at the base of the rocket. The engine powers up to full throttle for a computer-controlled checkout before liftoff.

T-00:00.0   Liftoff
The rocket's four strap-on solid rocket motors are lit, the four hold-down bolts are released and the Delta 4 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's pad 37B. The pad's three swing arms retract at T-0 seconds.

T+00:50.1   Max-Q
The vehicle experiences the region of maximum dynamic pressure. The solid motors and the RS-68 liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen engine continue to fire as the vehicle heads downrange, arcing over the Atlantic along a 101-degree flight azimuth.

T+01:40.0   Jettison two solid motors
Having used up all their solid-propellant and experienced burnout six seconds ago, the two strap-on boosters with fixed nozzles are jettisoned from the Delta's first stage.

T+01:42.4   Jettison two solid motors
The pair of strap-on boosters with steerable nozzles are jettisoned from the Delta's first stage and fall into the ocean.

T+03:27.0   Jettison payload fairing
The five-meter diameter composite payload fairing that protected the WGS 4 cargo atop the Delta 4 during the atmospheric ascent is no longer needed, allowing it to be jettisoned in two halves.

T+03:59.9   Begin engine throttling
With the maximum axial acceleration reached, the RS-68 powerplant starts throttling down in preparation for finishing its firing.

T+04:06.9   Main engine cutoff
The hydrogen-fueled RS-68 rocket engine completes its burn and shuts down to complete the first stage of flight.

T+04:14.0   Stage separation
The Common Booster Core first stage and the attached interstage are separated in one piece from the Delta 4's upper stage. The upper stage engine's extendible nozzle drops into position as the first stage separates.

T+04:27.0   Second stage ignition
The upper stage begins its job to place the WGS 4 satellite into space with the first of two firings by the RL10B-2 liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen engine.

T+20:42.9   Upper stage shutdown
The RL10 upper stage engine shuts down to complete its first firing of the launch. The rocket and attached satellite reach a parking orbit of approximately 100 by 3,714 nautical miles with an inclination of 25.59 degrees.

T+28:27.5   Restart upper stage
After a short coast period, the upper stage is reignited to raise the orbit to the planned altitude for deploying the payload.

T+31:35.8   Upper stage shutdown
The powered phase of the Delta 4's mission to loft WGS 4 concludes. The second burn will reach the planned supersynchronous orbit 237 by 36,108 nautical miles with an inclination of 24 degrees.

T+40:42.0   Separate spacecraft
The Wideband Global SATCOM 4 military communications satellite is released into space from the Delta 4 rocket. The Boeing-built satellite will use its onboard propulsion to reach geostationary orbit where it will match Earth's rotation and appear fixed above the equator to cover the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Data source: Air Force/ULA[/size]

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
 Forecast fine for year's first Cape launch[/size]

 There's little chance weather will stall the first launch of 2012 from Cape Canaveral, a planned 7:38 p.m. EST Thursday blastoff of a Delta IV rocket carrying a next-generation military communications satellite.

The most recent forecast from the Air Force's 45th Weather Squadron -- read it here -- shows only a 10 percent chance strong ground winds could become a factor during the window that extends to 9:11 p.m.

The odds of bad weather only worsen to 20 percent if the launch is delayed to Friday or Saturday.

United Launch Alliance reports everything is on track for an on-time liftoff of the 218-foot tall Delta IV Medium+ rocket carrying the Air Force's fourth Wideband Global SATCOM spacecraft, or WGS-4.

The $466 million, 13,200-pound spacecraft is the fourth of its kind to launch, the first in a new block of Boeing-built vehicles that offer greater capacity than the first three.

Each WGS satellites offer 10 times more bandwidth than the entire constellation they are gradually replacing, improving support for warfighters and unmanned aerial vehicles.[/size]

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http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/bss/factsheets/702/wgs/wgs_factsheet.html

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Нотамчик что-то больно длинный :-) и по времени как-то не очень сходится...

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Delta IV, WGS-4 on track for Thursday launch[/size]

A Delta IV rocket remains on track to loft a military communications satellite into orbit at 7:38 p.m. Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

The latest forecast is near perfect, with a 95 percent chance of favorable conditions during a launch window that extends to 9:11 p.m.

After a cold front passes through the region late this afternoon and evening, there's only a slight concern that ground winds could become an issue during the countdown.

United Launch Alliance says the 218-foot Delta IV, in a medium configuration with four strap-on solid rocket motors, is ready for launch.

Atop the rocket is one of the Department of Defense's highest-capacity communications satellites, the fourth in the Wideband Global SATCOM program, or WGS.

Around 9:30 a.m. Thursday, a mobile service tower at Launch Complex 37 will roll back to reveal the Delta IV. Fueling of the rocket's first and second stages with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen should begin less than five hours before launch.

ULA will begin a launch Webcast at approximately 7:17 p.m. EST Thursday. Click here to watch. We'll also send countdown updates by text -- sign up here.

The $464 million WGS-4 satellite is scheduled to separate from the rocket's upper stage nearly 41 minutes after launch.

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