| GRAIL: Satellites' pre-launch campaign |
Date: September 8, 2011
Duration: 7 min 15 sec
This narrated movie compiles the highlights of the GRAIL spacecraft undergoing its pre-launch preparation campaign in Cape Canaveral, Florida. |  |
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| GRAIL: PI interview |
Date: September 8, 2011
Duration: 5 min 50 sec
This is a pre-launch interview with Maria Zuber, the GRAIL principal investigator from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |  |
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| GRAIL: Previewing Delta's ascent |
Date: September 8, 2011
Duration: 4 min 35 sec
Learn about the United Launch Alliance Delta 2-Heavy rocket's flight trajectory to deploy the GRAIL spacecraft on their trans-lunar voyage. |  |
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| GRAIL: Science preview briefing |
Date: September 7, 2011
Duration: 49 min 34 sec
Learn all about the goals and objectives of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior and Laboratory mission from scientists working on the GRAIL project to the Moon. |  |
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| GRAIL: Pre-launch news conference |
Date: September 6, 2011
Duration: 42 min 11 sec
NASA, United Launch Alliance, Lockheed Martin and Air Force officials hold the pre-launch news conference to preview the Delta 2-Heavy rocket flight carrying the Moon-bound GRAIL spacecraft. |  |
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| GRAIL: Launch animation |
Date: September 3, 2011
Duration: 57 sec
This animation depicts the Delta 2-Heavy rocket launching the twin GRAIL spacecraft and the satellites flying away from Earth on their voyage to the Moon. |  |
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| GRAIL: Roadmap to the Moon |
Date: September 3, 2011
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
David Lehman, GRAIL project manager from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, describes the circuitous route the satellites will take from Earth to the Moon. |  |
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| GRAIL: How gravity measures are made |
Date: September 3, 2011
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Maria Zuber, GRAIL principal investigator from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explains how the twin satellites will map the lunar gravity field. |  |
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| GRAIL: Moon mapping animation |
Date: September 3, 2011
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
This animation illustrates the GRAIL spacecraft working in tandem around the Moon to precisely measure the lunar gravity field. |  |
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| GRAIL: Pre-flight overview briefing |
Date: August 25, 2011
Duration: 41 min 52 sec
Project officials and scientists from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission preview this Moon-bound spacecraft and their objectives to map the lunar gravity field. |  |
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| GRAIL: Nose cone attached |
Date: August 24, 2011
Duration: 8 min 46 sec
Installation of the Delta 2 rocket's nose cone is accomplished at launch pad 17B. The 10-foot-diameter composite fairing shrouds the GRAIL spacecraft during the climb through Earth's atmosphere in the initial five minutes of flight. |  |
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| GRAIL: Satellites moved to Delta rocket's launch pad |
Date: August 18, 2011
Duration: 12 min 7 sec
After 55 years of launches, the historic Complex 17 at the Cape Canaveral receives what could be its final satellite payload when NASA's twin Moon-mapper probes arrive for mounting atop the Delta 2 rocket. |  |
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| GRAIL: Second satellite put on launch deployer |
Date: August 10, 2011
Duration: 5 min 44 sec
Inside the Astrotech satellite processing facility, the GRAIL-A spacecraft is installed aboard the launch dispenser system that will deploy the satellite from the Delta 2 rocket during flight. |  |
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| GRAIL: First satellite put on launch deployer |
Date: August 10, 2011
Duration: 6 min 59 sec
The GRAIL-B spacecraft is hoisted atop the launch dispenser system that will deploy the satellite from the Delta 2 rocket during flight. |  |
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| GRAIL: Solar arrays unfurled for checks |
Date: June 18, 2011
Duration: 7 min 35 sec
The power-generating solar arrays on the Moon-bound GRAIL spacecraft are unfurled for pre-launch testing at the Astrotech processing facility. |  |
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| GRAIL: Satellites readied to begin pre-launch testing |
Date: May 23, 2011
Duration: 6 min 15 sec
The GRAIL lunar mapper tandem are placed onto rotating work fixtures at the Astrotech facility following arrival in Florida so pre-flight preparations can begin. |  |
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| GRAIL: Unboxing the satellites |
Date: May 23, 2011
Duration: 8 min 4 sec
Inside the commercially-run Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, the shipping container is opened to unpack the GRAIL spacecraft. |  |
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| GRAIL: Unloading at the Cape |
Date: May 20, 2011
Duration: 10 min 20 sec
The Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory spacecraft are unloaded from the Air Force transport aircraft at Kennedy Space Center following shipment from Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver. |  |
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| GRAIL: Spacecraft shipped to Florida |
Date: May 20, 2011
Duration: 7 min 7 sec
NASA's twin GRAIL lunar probes touch down on Runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida to begin final preparations for launch. |  |
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| GRAIL: Second stage installed |
Date: May 10, 2011
Duration: 9 min 3 sec
Technicians hoist the hypergolic second stage into the launch pad 17B tower for installation onto the Delta 2 rocket as assembly continues for the GRAIL mission.9 |  |
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