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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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Jun 9 2006, 08:59 PM
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George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. (321) 867-2468 STATUS REPORT: ELV-060906 EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE STATUS REPORT Mission: STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) Launch Pad: 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station 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 Testing and prelaunch processing of STEREO continue on schedule. Deep Space Network spacecraft compatibility testing is under way. Launch and mission simulation exercises are also being performed. Upcoming next week is further thermal blanket installation and preparations for attaching the solar arrays. STEREO is scheduled to be transported to Launch Complex 17 on July 11 to be mated to the Boeing Delta II rocket. The first stage of the Delta II rocket at Pad 17-B was erected on June 2. The first of three sets of three solid rocket boosters were attached on June 5. At this time, the Delta II second stage is scheduled to 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 information about the STEREO mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/stereo Previous status reports are available on the Web at: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launch...ets/status/2006 -------------------- "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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Jul 3 2006, 02:18 PM
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For information about the STEREO mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/stereo Previous status reports are available on the Web at: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launch...ets/status/2006 Or: http://stereo.jhuapl.edu/ APL (a lab of Johns Hopkins University) designed and built the two spacecraft. An interesting side note, they carry very similar RAD 750 based electronics to the MESSENGER mission (also built by APL), except that they are single-string and don't have MESSENGER's Fault Protection Processor. |
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Jul 3 2006, 02:31 PM
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they carry very similar RAD 750 based electronics to the MESSENGER mission (also built by APL), except that they are single-string and don't have MESSENGER's Fault Protection Processor. MER like redundency in that there's two spacecraft I suppose. Looking at the Orbit sims (and I'm not sure how accurate they are w.r.t. SKM's or TCM's ) - by something like 2010, they'll be on opposite sides of the sun from one another, and by 2012 - they'll be in almost 120 degree seperation around the sun, with the Earth at the third point, abnd by 2014, they'd overtake one another not far from a solar conjunction ...now THAT is looking in Stereo I'm looking forward to the imagery - approx 3x better resolution than SOHO's imagers. Doug |
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