From: "Spaceflight Now" <newsalert@spaceflightnow.com>
Date: Nov 28, 2013 10:14 AM
Subject: Thanksgiving launch for Falcon 9 / Comet ISON meets the Sun
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FALCON 9 ON TRACK FOR LAUNCH OF COMMERCIAL SATELLITE
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Thanksgiving Day is launch day for SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, which is set to take off Thursday with a television broadcasting satellite on a landmark mission to prove the privately-developed launcher's commercial capabilities. Launch from Cape Canaveral is set for 5:39 p.m. EST (2239 GMT).
LIVE COVERAGE:
http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/007/status.html
HOLIDAY TRAVELERS TRUMP SPACEX LAUNCH PLANS
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Concerned a rocket launch might add more congestion to the skies during Thanksgiving week, federal regulators blocked SpaceX's bid to launch a commercial broadcasting satellite Tuesday and Wednesday, two of the busiest travel days of the year.
http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/007/131126faa/
COMET ISON CLOSES IN ON FLYBY OF THE SUN
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Astronomers around the world are closely monitoring Comet ISON's plunge through the inner solar system and awaiting data from a fleet of space telescopes to find out whether the enigmatic chunk of ice will survive a blistering kamikaze-like Thanksgiving Day flyby of the sun.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1311/27ison/
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