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SDO Pre-Launch Reports From KSC

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Feb 12, 2010
RELEASE

Kennedy Space Center’s SDO Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Reports from July 2009 through Feb. 2010.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

    02.12.10 – NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory was launched successfully by the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Feb. 11 at 10:23:00 a.m. EST.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

    02.05.10 – At Launch Complex 41, preparations for the launch of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, aboard the Atlas V continue to go well and are on schedule.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

    01.29.10 – The SDO spacecraft rolled out of the Astrotech payload processing facility at 12:50 a.m. on Jan. 26.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

    01.22.10 – At Launch Complex 41, integrated testing of the Atlas and Centaur stages of the Atlas V for NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory is continuing.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

    01.08.10 – The mating of the Centaur stage to the Atlas was delayed several days before the holiday break by high wind causing more time to be consumed than the contingency days which were available.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

    12.23.09 – The Centaur upper stage, the second stage of the Atlas V rocket scheduled to launch NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, was transported from the hangar at the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center (ASOC), to the Vertical Integration Facility located at Launch Complex 41.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

    12.18.09 – At the Astrotech payload processing facility, Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) solar arrays were inspected and cleaned.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

    12.01.09 – At Space Launch Complex 2, work to install the Delta II payload fairing around NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft was completed as planned on Nov. 25.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

    11.24.09 – NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft was transported from the Astrotech payload processing facility to Space Launch Complex 2 on Nov. 20.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

    11.17.09 – The launch of NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) aboard the Delta II is being rescheduled by approximately two days. A launch date of Dec. 9 currently is under review.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

    10.30.09 – Build-up of the Delta II rocket at Space Launch Complex 2 was completed last week as planned.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

    10.16.09 – At the Astrotech payload processing facility on north Vandenberg, work has been under way this week to set up the necessary ground support equipment for loading of the cryogenic hydrogen which will be used to supercool the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

    10.02.09 – At the Astrotech payload processing facility on north Vandenberg, WISE spacecraft processing is going well and continues on schedule. The spacecraft instrument closeouts are under way.

  • 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.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

    08.31.09 – 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.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

    08.21.09 – 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.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

    08.17.09 – 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.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

    08.07.09 – Ground support equipment for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft will arrive at Vandenberg on Monday, Aug. 10.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

    07.31.09 – At Pad 17-B, no significant work is being undertaken to allow the launch team to work on the Air Force Delta II on adjacent Pad 17-A.

  • Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

    07.17.09 – At Pad B on Launch Complex 17, liquid oxygen leak checks of the first stage of the Delta II for the STSS-Demo mission are scheduled next week on July 20. For this test, the first stage will be filled with liquid oxygen during a simulated countdown.