NASA PRE-LAUNCH BRIEFING FOR LAUNCH OF ICON, Oct 8, 2019, KSC, 1:00-2:00 pm ET

NASA will hold a pre-launch briefing for the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission on October 8, 2019 from 1:00-2:00 pm ET at Kennedy Space Center, FL. ICON is scheduled for launch on Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus rocket, which is air-launched from the L-1011 Stargazer aircraft, on October 9.

The October 8 briefing will be broadcast on NASA TV and NASA Live.

Participants are:

• Nicola Fox, Heliophysics division director in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate
• Thomas Immel, ICON principal investigator at the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California Berkeley
• Omar Baez, launch director in NASA’s Launch Services Program
• Phil Joyce, vice president of space launch programs at Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems
• Steve Krein, vice president of civil and commercial satellites at Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems
• Representative from the U.S. Air Force 45th Space Wing