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Post by George Kominiak on Feb 23, 2010 13:05:12 GMT
Ohhh NOOO!!! Let's hope this doesn't bode ill for the mission!!! G.  Thanks Bob, Much better! Glad to hear it!! G. Relax George A report just released states that Sunday Night's burn was completed successfully using the Satellite's manuevering engines. The perigee was raised 900 miles. Goddard suspects the problem lies with the initial thrust of the main engine causing the fuel to slosh. They are working on devising a solution. The satellite is operating fine. All of the instruments are powered although their doors are closed and the manuevering system rolls the craft between sun pointing and boost attitudes when called upon just fine. |
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Post by Bob k6tr on Feb 24, 2010 21:42:27 GMT
GSFC has reported SDO has completed it's 3rd burn using it's ACS Engines. The satellites perigee now has been raised to 5200 miles. After separation from it's Centaur Booster SDO's Perigee was 1500 miles.
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Post by Bob k6tr on Mar 5, 2010 0:13:12 GMT
The launch of GOES P is underway. The launch was delayed 40 minutes to ascertain an alarm that ground controllers were recieving was errant.
The rocket left the pad at 6:57 PM
First burn proceeded without problems.
The first burn of the second stage also went well.
The second burn of the second stage has been completed successfully.
GOES is in another coast period of 3 hours and 43 minutes awaiting the third burn and final burn.
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Post by scpg02 on Mar 5, 2010 2:03:13 GMT
The launch of GOES P is underway. Good, then they can change the name and be done with this silliness. |
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Post by Bob k6tr on Mar 5, 2010 5:07:02 GMT
The launch of GOES P is underway. Good, then they can change the name and be done with this silliness. Maggie you' re going to have to hang in there a little longer. The GOES Satellites are usually renamed early in their checkout procedure. That is little more than a month away. |
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Post by Bob k6tr on Mar 5, 2010 5:15:52 GMT
SpaceFlight Now is reporting the RL-10 carrying GOES p successfully completed its third and final burn and then released GOES P into Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
NASA/Boeing will commence a series of burns to boost GOES P into it's permament orbit. That task will be completed in the next 3 weeks. NASA will then proceed with checkout of GOES P.
First Light for the visible image weather camera is slated for March 31. The first X-Ray Images of the Sun are expected on April 17th.
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Post by Bob k6tr on Mar 5, 2010 5:36:00 GMT
For those that are interested here is the progress of SDO as it is boosted from GTO into Geostationery Orbit. The firings come in small burst at orbit Apogee. As the orbit increases so does it's period. Thus the proces of boosting the satellite slows down As of March 4 the orbital period for SDO is 17 hours.  |
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Post by kerogre256 on Mar 9, 2010 18:46:14 GMT
AMF-8 Moves SDO Perigee Altitude to 34.6 Mm
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
Apogee Motor Firing #8, the last orbit raising maneuver, was successfully completed Monday night. This burn raised the SDO perigee altitude to about 34,600 km for a period of about 23 hr. With this orbit SDO will appear to drift eastward toward our final longitude.
Now that we are close to our final orbit the main engine plumbing will be vented to exhaust fuel and oxidizer from the lines. The first Trim Motor Firing (TMF #1) is planned for Thursday evening. [/blockquote] Can't wait for first SDO images.... |
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Post by Bob k6tr on Mar 10, 2010 0:13:29 GMT
AMF-8 Moves SDO Perigee Altitude to 34.6 Mm
Tue, 09 Mar 2010
Apogee Motor Firing #8, the last orbit raising maneuver, was successfully completed Monday night. This burn raised the SDO perigee altitude to about 34,600 km for a period of about 23 hr. With this orbit SDO will appear to drift eastward toward our final longitude.
Now that we are close to our final orbit the main engine plumbing will be vented to exhaust fuel and oxidizer from the lines. The first Trim Motor Firing (TMF #1) is planned for Thursday evening. [/blockquote] Can't wait for first SDO images.... [/quote] I estimate Goddard will open the doors on AIA late next week. |
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Post by George Kominiak on Mar 10, 2010 3:10:25 GMT
Hey Bob!
How in the world are they (the SDO Team) going to handle all of this data? Are they planning to make it all available to the public??
G.
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Post by Bob k6tr on Mar 10, 2010 15:17:17 GMT
Hey Bob! How in the world are they (the SDO Team) going to handle all of this data? Are they planning to make it all available to the public?? G. To answer your first question. (sorry about the ad) To answer your second question it is my understanding the public will have access to a substantial part of it. There is a detailed Public Use policy section on the SDO Webpage so it appears a great deal of it will be out there. Like you I have very few details at this time. I do know there will be an Iphone/Mobile Phone App. The Section Head of LMSAL involved with AIA stated in a prelaunch news conference that LMSAL will make available free of charge to any Planetarium with necessary equipment an HD Feed. And I would imagine a great deal will appear on SDO's Goddard Website. I'm interested in the EVE Data and have yet to find out how it will be distributed if at all. We will just have to wait and see. It shouldn't be much longer. |
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Post by lsvalgaard on Mar 10, 2010 16:07:20 GMT
Hey Bob! How in the world are they (the SDO Team) going to handle all of this data? Are they planning to make it all available to the public?? G. To answer your first question. We will just have to wait and see. It shouldn't be much longer. Yes, many computers... But the image shown is NOT of our actual computer complex. It is a NASA stock image. We have complained, but NASA PR-department doesn't care. |
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Post by Bob k6tr on Mar 17, 2010 1:48:39 GMT
SDO has completed all of it's boost motor firings and is now on station. The SDO website is reporting the next action will be to open the instrument doors. sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/We could have images tomorrow. Keep tabs on that site over the next few days. |
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Post by George Kominiak on Mar 17, 2010 16:50:15 GMT
SDO has completed all of it's boost motor firings and is now on station. The SDO website is reporting the next action will be to open the instrument doors. sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/We could have images tomorrow. Keep tabs on that site over the next few days. Hey Bob! Let's hope everything on board is in good health!! G. |
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Post by Bob k6tr on Mar 18, 2010 2:52:31 GMT
SDO has completed all of it's boost motor firings and is now on station. The SDO website is reporting the next action will be to open the instrument doors. sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/We could have images tomorrow. Keep tabs on that site over the next few days. Hey Bob! Let's hope everything on board is in good health!! G. George All of the preliminary reports have indicated that everything is OK. They said all three instruments were taking power and their static parameters had checkout out ok. They also said the Fine guidance system checkout out ok and the satellite can maintain position within tolerance in Science Mode. They also stated EVE was sending back good data with the doors closed as it passed through the Van Allen Belt. Everything has been upbeat so far. I have a sneeky suspicion somebody is peeking before they pull the big switch. |
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