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Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report - August 17, 2009
Aug. 17, 2009
George H. Diller
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468
STATUS REPORT: ELV-081709
EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE STATUS REPORT
Mission: Space Tracking and Surveillance System - Demonstrators
Program (STSS-Demo)
Launch Vehicle: Delta II 7920-10
Launch Pad: Launch Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
Launch Date: Sept. 15, 2009
Launch Window: 8 - 9 p.m. EDT
At Pad 17-B, work has been on hold while the launch team focused on
an
Air Force Delta II on adjacent Pad 17-A. The vehicle launched at 6:35
a.m. EDT with the final Air Force Global Positioning System
navigation satellite in the current GPS IIR series. This week the
launch team will begin processing for STSS-Demo.
Spacecraft: Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
Launch Vehicle: Atlas V-401
Launch Pad: Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
Launch Date: Dec. 4, 2009
The SDO full observatory comprehensive performance test has been
conducted to fully test all of the spacecraft science instruments.
The test is the last major evaluation before launch.
The Ka-band RF downlink checkouts are complete. The instrument module
has been cleaned, and a visual inspection for the Extreme Ultraviolet
Variability Experiment was performed.
Spacecraft: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
Launch Vehicle: Delta II 7320
Launch Pad: SLC-2, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
Launch Date: Dec. 10, 2009 (tentative)
Ground support equipment for the WISE spacecraft arrived at
Vandenberg
on Aug. 10 and will be processed in the Astrotech payload processing
facility located on north Vandenberg. WISE arrived on Aug. 14 and was
offloaded and lifted out of its transportation canister on Saturday.
This week, the spacecraft is scheduled to be transferred to a work
stand to begin processing for launch.
WISE will survey the entire sky in the mid-infrared with far greater
sensitivity than any previous mission ever has. The WISE survey will
capture over a million images, from which hundreds of millions of
astronomical objects will be catalogued, providing a vast storehouse
of knowledge about the Solar System, the Milky Way, and the Universe.
Previous status reports are available at:
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/...tus/index.html
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