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Post by scpg02 on Jan 31, 2010 22:20:06 GMT
I'm excited about the trip to Pluto. We should get some interesting stuff with that as well.
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Post by Bob k6tr on Feb 1, 2010 6:58:41 GMT
I'm excited about the trip to Pluto. We should get some interesting stuff with that as well.  NewHorizons won't arrive at Pluto for another 5 and a 1/2 years. Talk about delayed gratification you have a great deal of self discipline. |
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Post by scpg02 on Feb 1, 2010 7:12:37 GMT
you have a great deal of self discipline. LOL you may be the only one who thinks so. |
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Post by Bob k6tr on Feb 3, 2010 17:50:00 GMT
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Post by George Kominiak on Feb 4, 2010 3:27:59 GMT
Hey Bob, Thanks for putting this up. Let's hope all goes well! G. |
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Post by Bob k6tr on Feb 4, 2010 5:38:38 GMT
Hey Bob, Thanks for putting this up. Let's hope all goes well! G. Well it looks like the weather will hold up to get the shuttle out on time but it doesn't look so good for SDO. Right now the long range forecast says bad weather will move in next Tuesday. Bob |
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Post by Bob k6tr on Feb 5, 2010 14:34:18 GMT
A close up view of the booster that will lift GOES P into orbit. www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1582.htmlGOES P is the third and final satellite in the GOES N Series. It is slated for launch on March 1 and will be redesignated GOES 15 once in orbit. The first GOES R series satellite is scheduled for launch in 2015. |
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Post by scpg02 on Feb 5, 2010 15:14:14 GMT
GOES P? That's just brilliant. I'm glad they will redesignate it.  |
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Post by Bob k6tr on Feb 5, 2010 23:40:50 GMT
Here is NASA' s plan to reconcile the launches of The Space Shuttle Endeavour and SDO per an article posted on SpaceFlightNow's website. "Forecasters are predicting a 70 percent chance of acceptable weather Sunday, improving to 90 percent "go" Monday and dropping back to 80 percent favorable Tuesday. NASA can make two attempts to launch Endeavour during that three-day period.
If the shuttle tries Sunday and Monday and doesn't make it, launch would slip to Feb. 13, after the Feb. 10 launch of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory science satellite. If Endeavour tries Sunday and Tuesday and doesn't make it, launch would slip to Feb. 14 and NASA would try to launch the SDO mission Feb. 11. If the shuttle takes off on schedule Sunday, SDO would go on Feb. 9."www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts130/100205preview/ |
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Post by Bob k6tr on Feb 7, 2010 9:34:17 GMT
The Sunday Morning Launch of the Shuttle was scrubbed and rescheduled for Monday Morning. This means the launch of SDO will be delayed until at least Wednesday Morning.
Update SDO is now scheduled to launch on 10 - Feb - 2010 at 1526 utc. That is 10:26 AM EST, 7:26 AM PST
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Post by Bob k6tr on Feb 8, 2010 9:38:52 GMT
Space Shuttle Endeavour launched successfully Monday Morning. SDO' s Launch is slated for Wednesday Morning. However the current weather forecast calls for High Winds which may force a postponement of it's launch for 24 hours.
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Post by Bob k6tr on Feb 10, 2010 22:02:02 GMT
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Post by Bob k6tr on Feb 12, 2010 0:56:21 GMT
Now that SDO is up there is one more important launch coming in a few weeks. The last in the GOES N Series of Weather Satellites will is scheduled to launch from Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral on March 1, 2010. It will be carrying a suite of equipment to photograph and monitor X-Ray Emissions from the sun. Once in orbit GOES P will be renamed GOES 15. And when checkout is complete NOAA will ramp-up the phase out of the GOES K Series (GOES 10 - 12).
This will be the last launch of any heliospheric missions until 2015 when Solar Orbiter/Solar Probe and the GOES R Series are launch and that date could slip to 2018.
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Post by shadow on Feb 12, 2010 2:29:32 GMT
Hi I wondered if someone has an idea of what the images sent from SDO will look like compared to SOHO? How big an improvement will there be? I could search on google for it but I'm lazy right now  Can someone care to share how big an improvement SDO will be over its predecessors perhaps by providing a comparative between them? Thanks |
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Post by Bob k6tr on Feb 12, 2010 3:15:40 GMT
Hi I wondered if someone has an idea of what the images sent from SDO will look like compared to SOHO? How big an improvement will there be? I could search on google for it but I'm lazy right now Can someone care to share how big an improvement SDO will be over its predecessors perhaps by providing a comparative between them? Thanks The cameras on AIA are 4K x 4K which comes out to 16 Mega Pixels. Which is 4 times better than HDTV. I don't know what the resolution on SOHO is but it probably was the best technology available in 1990 when SOHO was designed and built. But just as important they will operate differently because they are in different orbits. SOHO is in a Heliocentric Orbit so it has to buffer it's data and wait for a DSN Station to become available.. SDO will be in geostationary orbit and will beam it's images down directly to a dedicated ground station in real time. This also will also improve the quality of the images returned because Data Compression used on SOHO will not be necessary. AIA will beam down a new image every 10 Seconds SOHO' s rate is one every 3 minutes. That is for one instrument. Want more ? |
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NewHorizons won't arrive at Pluto for another 5 and a 1/2 years. Talk about delayed gratification you have a great deal of self discipline.
Can someone care to share how big an improvement SDO will be over its predecessors perhaps by providing a comparative between them?