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T-plus 30 minutes

All systems nominal

T+45:00  Delta's signal will be  acquired by a groundstation in  South African.
T+54:10     Second stage engine restart
T+54:22     Second Stage Cutoff 2. The orbit should be 272.4 nautical miles at apogee, 266.2 miles at perigee and inclined 97.49 degrees.
T+72:05     The second stage begins a nine-degree per second spin to stabilise the release of the WorldView 1 spacecraft.
T+73:20     WorldView 1  Separation

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T-plus 20 minutes

-- Edited by Blobrana at 20:02, 2007-09-18

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SECO 1 now confirmed

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SECO I

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Nose cone jettisoned.
Second stage firing normally.
The booster will use the Delta-7920-10C configuration and insert the payload into a 493 x 504-km sun-synchronous orbit with an inclination of 97.5°.

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T-plus 5 minutes

All systems nominal

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Air burnout


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All system nominal

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Lift off!

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T-minus 5 minutes and counting.

Countdown resume

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