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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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Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington (202) 358-3749 George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. (321) 867-2468 STATUS REPORT: ELV-051906 EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE STATUS REPORT Mission: Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) Launch Site: 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Launch Vehicle: Boeing Delta II Launch Date: July 22, 2006 Launch Times: 3:11 - 3:13 p.m. and 4:19 - 4:34 p.m. EDT Technicians are testing individual STEREO systems on both the "A" and "B" spacecraft. The flight battery for spacecraft A was installed this week. Technicians are expected to install the battery for spacecraft B next week. In addition to testing, upcoming work planned over the next few weeks includes solar array installation and integration of the high-gain communications antenna. The build-up of the Delta II rocket at Pad 17-B is currently scheduled to begin on June 1 with the first stage. Pad workers will start to erect the nine solid rocket boosters on June 2. The second stage will be hoisted into position and mated to the first stage on June 20. The crew will raise the 10-foot fairing into the pad clean room on June 21. For previous status reports, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launch...ets/status/2006 STEREO will use "3D" vision to build a global picture of the sun and the heliosphere and study the sun's influence on Earth. For more information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/stereo For information about NASA and agency programs, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/home -------------------- "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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