Friday 14 December 2012

Rescue Airmen support successful rocket launcher

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12/12/2012 -
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla.  -- Air Force Reserve combat-search-and-rescue Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing, defender Air Force Base, Fla., supported the lucky classified launch of associate degree United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the U.S. military's X-37B orbital house plane, Dec. eleven at 1:03 p.m. from launch advanced forty one elevation Air Force Station.

The Low Earth Orbit associate degree X-37B Orbital check Vehicle to boot brought up as OTV is beginning its second flight following improvement. Between Gregorian calendar month and Dec 2010 on the inaugural OTV launch, the OTV spent 224 days, 9 hours and twenty four minutes in orbit.

A second OTV mission spent 468 days, 13 hours and a combine of minutes on a voyage from March 2011 to the present past June that circled the globe over seven,000 times.

A combined team of military, government civilians and contractors from defender Air Force Base, Fla., and elevation AFS provided vital support to the present third OTV mission, still as weather forecasts, launch and vary operations, security, safety and public affairs.

Brig. Gen. Anthony Cotton, commander, forty fifth house Wing, international organization agency to boot served as a result of the Launch decision Authority, same this was a awfully historic and very important launch for the Air Force and so the complete team got to be counseled for his or her first-rate, arch work that ensured another lucky mission.

"We ar therefore lucky to possess a awfully skilled "launch team" that works so well on," Cotton same.

"The cooperation across Air Force house Command and with our 'Team defender / Cape' mission partners created this launch thriving and is another example of but our Air Force delivers assured house launch, vary and combat capabilities for the state," he added.

The X-37B provides a flexible "on-orbit laboratory" check atmosphere to prove new technology and parts in house, before those technologies ar committed to operational satellite programs. Technologies on the vehicle ar expected to make access to accommodate lots of responsive and conducting experiments in house cheaper.
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Rescue Wing Airmen international organization agency pilot the HH-60G Pave Hawk aircraft wish flight several hours before all scheduled   launches from elevation AFS to secure the Jap vary. They patrol the stretch of the Atlantic Ocean to a lower place the launch flight ensuring no mariners veer into harm's suggests that of potential rocket scrap hazards.

Range clearing is one in each of the many tasks that the Airmen of the 920th RQW ar charged with. The premier combat-search-and-rescue wing Airmen ar trained to supply search and rescue services in humanitarian and combat environments.

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