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PACE ‘Go’ for Launch, NASA Prelaunch News Conference Next – Kennedy Space Center [1]

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Date: 2024-02-05

NASA will host a prelaunch news conference today, Feb. 5, at 9 a.m. EST, to discuss the agency’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission. This follows the NASA and SpaceX launch readiness review Sunday, Feb. 4, resulting in a “go” for launch.

Participants for the briefing include:

Jim Free, NASA associate administrator

Karen St. Germain, director, NASA’s Earth Science Division

Tim Dunn, senior launch director, NASA’s Launch Services Program

Julianna Scheiman, director, Civil Satellite Missions, SpaceX

Brian Cizek, launch weather officer, 45 th Weather Squadron, U.S. Space Force

Live coverage of the news conference will air on NASA+ and NASA TV.

PACE is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 1:33 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 6, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

To learn more about the PACE mission, visit:

https://pace.oceansciences.org/mission.htm

Join the conversation and get updates from these accounts:

X: @NASA, @NASA_LSP, @NASAKennedy, @NASAGoddard

Facebook: NASA, NASA’s Launch Services Program, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Instagram: @NASA, @NASAKennedy, @NASAGoddard

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