| Atlas/SDO Launch Replays: UCS 12 tracker |
Date: February 11, 2010
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Launch of the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft aboard an Atlas 5 rocket is captured in this angle from the UCS 12 tracking camera positioned northwest of the pad. (Includes live launch audio!) |  |
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| Atlas/SDO Launch Replays: VIF camera |
Date: February 11, 2010
Duration: 28 sec
Launch of the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft aboard an Atlas 5 rocket is captured in this angle from a camera positioned atop the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41. (Includes live launch audio!) |  |
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| Atlas/SDO Launch Replays: Pad umbilicals |
Date: February 11, 2010
Duration: 19 sec
Launch of the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft aboard an Atlas 5 rocket is captured in this angle from a camera positioned to watch the the pad umbilicals separate from the vehicle. (Includes live launch audio!)
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| Atlas/SDO Launch Replays: Pad south |
Date: February 11, 2010
Duration: 24 sec
Launch of the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft aboard an Atlas 5 rocket is captured in this angle from a camera positioned east of the pad at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41. (Includes live launch audio!) |  |
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| Atlas/SDO Launch Replays: Pad east |
Date: February 11, 2010
Duration: 28 sec
Launch of the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft aboard an Atlas 5 rocket is captured in this angle from a camera positioned east of the pad at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41. (Includes live launch audio!) |  |
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| Atlas/SDO: Winds thwart first countdown |
Date: February 10, 2010
Duration: 3 min 48 sec
The first attempt to launch the Solar Dynamics Observatory was scrubbed on February 10 due to high winds blowing out of limits at the Complex 41 pad. |  |
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| Atlas/SDO: Satellite's pre-launch campaign |
Date: February 10, 2010
Duration: 5 min 10 sec
This narrated movie compiles the highlights of the Solar Dynamics Observatory undergoing its pre-launch preparation campaign in Cape Canaveral, Florida. |  |
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| Atlas/SDO: Rocket's pre-launch campaign |
Date: February 10, 2010
Duration: 8 min 44 sec
This narrated movie compiles the highlights from the Atlas 5 rocket's pre-flight campaign at Cape Canaveral in preparation to launch the Solar Dynamics Observatory. |  |
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| Atlas/SDO: Launch preview |
Date: February 10, 2010
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
This narrated animation previews the key events for the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory into space from Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral. |  |
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| Atlas/SDO: Mission science briefing |
Date: February 9, 2010
Duration: 50 min 32 sec
Scientists working on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory mission hold this science briefing to explain and preview the work at this new spacecraft will perform in orbit as a Sun-watching satellite. |  |
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| Atlas/SDO: Pre-launch news conference |
Date: February 9, 2010
Duration: 37 min 6 sec
On the eve of launch, officials hold the pre-launch news conference for the Atlas 5 rocket and Solar Dynamics Observatory from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. |  |
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| Atlas/SDO: Rocket rolls to the launch pad |
Date: February 9, 2010
Duration: 5 min 42 sec
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket that will deliver NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory into orbit journeys from the 30-story Vertical Integration Facility to Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 pad for launch. |  |
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| Atlas/SDO: Sun-watching satellite put atop its rocket for launch |
Date: January 26, 2010
Duration: 4 min 58 sec
The spacecraft NASA is calling the "crown jewel" mission for probing solar physics is delivered to the rocket assembly building at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 and mounted aboard its Atlas 5 launcher. |  |
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| Atlas/SDO: All aboard the transporter |
Date: January 23, 2010
Duration: 6 min 25 sec
Inside the airlock of the cleanroom facility at Astrotech, the encapsulated SDO spacecraft is placed aboard the transporter trailer for its trip to the launch site. |  |
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| Atlas/SDO: Pre-flight briefing |
Date: January 21, 2010
Duration: 38 min 53 sec
The scientists and leaders of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory project preview the spacecraft's mission and objectives during this pre-flight introduction briefing held in Washington and the Kennedy Space Center on January 21. |  |
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| Atlas/SDO: Payload encapsulated |
Date: January 21, 2010
Duration: 6 min 50 sec
At a satellite-readying hangar outside the Kennedy Space Center on January 21, NASA's sophisticated new Sun-studying probe was enclosed within the giant metal fairing that will shroud the craft during ascent to space atop an Atlas 5 booster. |  |
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| Atlas/SDO: Spacecraft fueled up |
Date: January 7, 2010
Duration: 8 min 22 sec
The ground team loads maneuvering fuel into the Solar Dynamics Observatory while wearing protective SCAPE suits during this hazardous operation. |  |
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| Atlas/SDO: Centaur upper stage stacked |
Date: December 21, 2009
Duration: 6 min
The Centaur upper stage that will propel NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory into geosynchronous transfer orbit is mounted atop the Atlas 5 rocket's first stage. |  |
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| Atlas/SDO: First stage erected |
Date: December 15, 2009
Duration: 6 min 54 sec
The Atlas 5 rocket's first stage is moved from the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center to the Vertical Integration Facility where it is hoisted upright for stacking atop a mobile launch platform. |  |
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| Atlas/SDO: Appendages extended in auto test |
Date: November 16, 2009
Duration: 3 min 5 sec
The communications booms and the power-generating solar wings of the Solar Dynamics Observatory are deployed in an autonomous test. |  |
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