Omar Baez, the NASA Launch Manager, received a “go” from his launch team to load the cryogenic propellants. The United Launch Alliance will next poll the Atlas V team. Everything remains on schedule to launch at 1:28 p.m. EST.
Good morning from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida where the weather is warm, the sky is blue with some thin cloud streaks and MAVEN stands atop an Atlas V rocket poised to head to Mars! The launch teams here report everything is on track for a liftoff at 1:28 p.m. EST. If some …
At T-2 hours, the countdown clocks have paused for 30 minutes. Everything remains on schedule for launch at 1:28 p.m. EST. The countdown will resume at 11:18 EST and the launch team will begin the steps to load cryogenic propellants into the Atlas V first stage and Centaur upper stage.
Here’s a look at the Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida this morning where the Atlas V with MAVEN aboard is going through launch preparations. Our continuous coverage here on the NASA Launch Blog and NASA TV’s coverage of the countdown will begin at 11 a.m.
Take a look at the rollout of the Atlas V rocket carrying MAVEN from the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
MAVEN’s launch team began today’s countdown on schedule at 6:28 a.m. Managers from NASA and United Launch Alliance are overseeing today’s preparations and launch of the MAVEN spacecraft to Mars atop an Atlas V-401 and Centaur upper stage. Liftoff remains on schedule for 1:28 p.m. EST, the start of a 2-hour launch window. Our continuous countdown …
Diapason Experiment: Flight Engineer (FE)-5 Mastracchio set up and powered on the Diapason instrument for the final test run. This experiment studies nano-particle migration and capture achieved by very small thermal gradients. The particle size range allows the monitoring of combustion-generated pollution and the identification of atmospheric contaminants on-board ISS. Ocular Health (OH) Measurements: FE-6 …
The Atlas V rocket with MAVEN aboard will be rolled from the Vertical Integration Facility or VIF, pictured with the Atlas V inside, to the launch pad at Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Saturday morning. Technicians will connect a battery of umbilicals and make the other connections necessary to set …
From installing the solar arrays and instruments to covering the high-gain antenna and packaging the spacecraft inside its payload fairing – not to mention all the intensive testing involved – see in about two minutes what took MAVEN engineers months of careful, precise work to accomplish before the spacecraft is sent into space.
There will be a prelaunch press conference for MAVEN at 1 p.m. EST today on NASA TV. Participants are Geoffrey Yoder, NASA deputy associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate; Omar Baez, NASA launch director; Vernon Thorp, United Launch Alliance’s program manager for NASA missions; David Mitchell, NASA’s MAVEN project manager; Guy Beutelschies, Lockheed Martin’s MAVEN project manager; and Clay Flinn, launch weather officer, …
