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Nov 15 2005, 02:13 PM
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http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0511/14stereo/
The first spacecraft designed to capture 3-D "stereo" views of the sun and solar wind have been shipped from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Md., for their next round of pre-launch tests. http://www.stereo.jhuapl.edu/ |
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Nov 23 2005, 10:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 183 Joined: 22-October 05 From: Cape Canaveral, FL Member No.: 534 |
And the launch has now been postponed to May 26.
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Jan 31 2006, 10:05 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (BPCooper @ Nov 23 2005, 05:05 PM) Launch is now set for June 24, 2006: Spaceflight: * NASA's STEREO Probes Weather Temperature Extremes http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/06013...reo_update.html A set of spacecraft twins destined to stare at the Sun is alternately baking and freezing in a preflight test. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Feb 1 2006, 02:37 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 183 Joined: 22-October 05 From: Cape Canaveral, FL Member No.: 534 |
QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 31 2006, 06:05 PM) Launch is now set for June 24, 2006: Spaceflight: * NASA's STEREO Probes Weather Temperature Extremes http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/06013...reo_update.html A set of spacecraft twins destined to stare at the Sun is alternately baking and freezing in a preflight test. Should be June 23 at 3:30pm. I've put in a request for the windows (the current one now targetted is June 23 to July 7). STEREO is a very interesting mission in terms of its orbital dance to get into position and the launch windows being based on the moons position. They have some neat Quicktimes tracing out the paths. -------------------- |
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