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janrinok
on Wednesday September 21 2016, @03:18AM
from the not-lighting-the-blue-touch-paper dept.
from the not-lighting-the-blue-touch-paper dept.
A wildfire burning at a central California Air Force base on Sunday forced the postponement of a satellite launch, officials said.
An Atlas 5 rocket was to carry a satellite known as WorldView-4 into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The satellite is designed to produce high-resolution images of Earth from space.
The fire burning in a remote canyon didn't immediately threaten the space launch complex, Col. Paul Nosek said on the base's Facebook page. But he said firefighters needed to be redeployed from stand-by at the launch because of the blaze.
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Air Force Base Wildfire Postpones Hi-Res Satellite Launch
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 21 2016, @03:22AM
On their Galaxy 7 phones.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by julian on Wednesday September 21 2016, @03:35AM
I live in the region of Vandenberg Air Force Base and the skies were a muddy brown yesterday from the smoke. This is an image [imgur.com] I took. Everything had a very unnatural red hue.
(Score: 1) by Frosty Piss on Wednesday September 21 2016, @05:48AM
I was stationed at both Vandenberg an Beale. Wildfires are common. Often cig butts, often natural. It happens.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 21 2016, @06:58AM
Let's hope the smoke doesn't get into the high rez optics.