Q. The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office satellite L - 49 is one of the largest loonvragte placed in a polar orbit around the Earth, and serve as a platform for early warning of external threats and known in a very hostile areas.
This flight marks the first shot of a new space for the United States.
United launch alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket that uses three liquid rocket boosters and fuel for the launch, and will be wearing the Foundation NROL - 49 launcher cable - 6 at Vandenberg, Air, on January 20, 4:08:05 (01:08 local).
Aviation officials say the short-acting the launch window closes at 4:23.
The fifth flight of the Delta IV Heavy to depart from the southern base of the complex space at the beginning of 6, the same way, which was founded in 1980 between the military launched the spacecraft.
The launch of four Delta IV Heavy from Cape Canaveral earlier in the station's air force since January 2004.
The countdown will begin at exactly 10:38 on Thursday in the T - 5 hours and 15 minutes mark.
Half an hour later, the launch team began promoting the common liquid oxygen tanks, the primary backer. A little more than an hour later, and will begin and liquid hydrogen fuel.
Rocket 236 feet past three common characteristics of a strong core with a single engine, each providing a thrust of about 745,000 £ 2.234 million at the beginning of pounds combined.
Starts at T-4 seconds - when three of Serbia - 68 engines ignite and the throttle on full blast.
After rising in the sky Delta in the afternoon, starting around the visible area south of Los Angels as a means for more stock from the south and the Pacific.
Little more than six minutes early, and empty fuel supportive cores, three of them, will be eliminated.
Will determine the exact time the load is detected, according to the 30 Space Wing Vandenberg.
Next to the Delta IV-H on the table, which starts from Cape Canaveral in December, however, the two Delta IV medium will start at the beginning of this year of the head.
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