To monitor energetic solar photons, NASA is going to launch a sensor named "EVE," short for EUV Variability Experiment, onboard SDO this winter.
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EVE: Measuring the Sun's Hidden Variability
Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report
09.18.09
To accommodate readiness of the STSS Demo spacecraft, the launch of the Delta II has been rescheduled for no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 8 a.m. EDT. The launch window is 60 minutes in duration...
Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report
09.11.09
The Space Tracking and Surveillance System - Demonstrators Program spacecraft Interface Verification Test with the Delta II rocket and the spacecraft functional test that followed are both complete.
SDO Past Features
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Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report
Prelaunch preparations at Pad 17B for the Space Tracking and Surveillance System - Demonstrators Program are going well and are on schedule.
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Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report
The Delta II for launch of the Space Tracking and Surveillance System - Demonstrators Program was powered on last week for state of health checks and associated testing. Configuring of Launch Pad 17-B for launch also is under way.
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Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report
Configuring Launch Pad 17-B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for launch of the Space Tracking and Surveillance System - Demonstrators Program is under way.
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Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report
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.
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Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report
Ground support equipment for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft will arrive at Vandenberg on Monday, Aug. 10.
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This series of videos shows SDO as engineers put it through the paces at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
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