NASA PRE-LAUNCH BRIEFING FOR ICON, DATE TBD, KSC

UPDATE, Oct. 23:  the ICON launch has been postponed to conduct further pre-launch testing of the Pegasus XL rocket, and this briefing also has been postponed. Read more at [https://blogs.nasa.gov/kennedy/2018/10/23/nasas-icon-launch-delayed-new-launch-date-to-come/]

ORIGINAL ENTRY: NASA will hold a pre-launch briefing for the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) on October 24, 2018 at Kennedy Space Center, FL at 1:00 pm ET.  It will air on NASA TV and the agency’s NASA Live website.

ICON is scheduled for launch on a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL air-launched rocket on October 26.  The 90-minute launch window opens at 4:00 am ET.   NASA TV will cover the launch beginning at 3:45 am ET.

Participants in the October 24 briefing are:

Nicola Fox, Heliophysics Division Director, NASA HQ
Omar Baez, Sr. Launch Director, Launch Services Program, NASA Kennedy Space Center
Robert Lockwood, Program Director, Science & Environmental Satellites, Northrop Grumman
Bryan Baldwin, Sr. Director Space Launch Program, Northrup Grumman
Capt. Matthew Walter, Launch Weather Officer, 45^th Weather Squadron, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station