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Atlas 5 rocket carrying three onboard video cameras BY JUSTIN RAY SPACEFLIGHT NOW Posted: July 15, 2003 Three video cameras are mounted aboard the Atlas 5 rocket to give engineers live views of critical events during Thursday's launch sequence.
"If we get the video coverage during the separation events, it is valuable information to have. It is not absolutely necessary. We have other instrumentation onboard the vehicle, the solids...and all the information we are able to get from the payload fairing during the first second of separation." The available launch window extends from 7:20 to 9:00 p.m. EDT (2320-0100 GMT) each day. The cameras are supplied by Ecliptic Enterprises of Pasadena, California. Thursday's mission will mark the fourth time onboard video cameras have flown on Atlas rockets since 2000. The maiden flight of Atlas 3, a classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office using an Atlas 2AS and the first Atlas 5 have carried cameras. |
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