"Holds" are built into any countdown, but it's the unexpected holds that get people biting their nails when they know it's past the scheduled time for the rocket to launch. The flight could even be "scrubbed" (cancelled), and folk's standing by the shore of the Indian River might not even know it.
space.launch.info is now providing a service to notify people of holds in the countdown, and scrubs if they occur, via SMS (Short Message Service), the text messaging service of your mobile phone.
Companies interested in sponsoring the service should contact Robert Osband by dialing 3-2-1-Liftoff (+1 321 543 8633).
If you'll be along the Indian River or Atlantic Coast
waiting for a launch, sign up for SMS Text Messages
to be sent to your mobile phone with the latest launch
hold, and scrub updates.
The service is free. Your regular
text messaging rates will apply.
You can also register at UPOC.Com and join other text messaging communities as well, or start your own.
Or send a Text Message to 8762
with the text "join launchholds"
Next Launch
August 12, 7:14 AM EDT
- AEHF, Advanced Extremely High Frequency Satellite, a communications satellite for the DoD.
- Booster: Atlas V
- Launch date: 2010-08-12, 7:14 AM EDT (11:14 UTC)
To find out when Holds and Scrubs occur during this launch, have
text messages sent to your mobile phone. Sign up at UPOC.Com
- Dragon, A free-flying, reusable spacecraft being developed by SpaceX under NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program.
- Booster: Falcon 9
- Launch date: 2010-09-xx
- NRO L-32, A spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office.
- Booster: Delta IV Heavy
- Launch date: 2010-10-19
- STS-133, Discovery will deliver critical spare components including antennas and gas tanks to the International Space Station.
- Booster: Space Shuttle Discovery
- Launch date: 2010-11-01, 4:33 PM EDT (20:33 UTC)
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