Launch Date Friday March 6th: 6 March 2009 22:49:00 EST
The Kepler spacecraft launches tomorrow and that is pure
Watch Live!
What is the Kepler spacecraft you say?
An artists rendering of what our galaxy might look as viewed from outside our Galaxy. Our sun is about 25,000 light years
from the center of our galaxy. The cone illustrates the neighborhood of our galaxy that the Kepler Mission will search to find habitable planets.
One of the 42 charged couple devices (CCDs) used in the Kepler focal plane array
mounted in its shipping container. Each CCD is 2.8 by 3.0 cm with 1024 by 1100 pixels.
The entire focal plane contains 95 mega pixels.
ARES DROUGE PARACHUTE TEST
Under brilliant blue Arizona skies, NASA and industry engineers successfully completed the second drop test of the drogue parachute for the Ares I rocket on Saturday, Feb. 28, at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz.
Engineers from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manage the team that conducted the test of the 68-foot-diameter drogue parachute and its 50,000-pound load -- simulating the rocket's spent first-stage motor -- from a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft flying at an altitude of 25,000 feet. The parachute and all test hardware functioned properly and landed safely.
+2 for NASA.
The Kepler spacecraft launches tomorrow and that is pure
Watch Live!
What is the Kepler spacecraft you say?
An artists rendering of what our galaxy might look as viewed from outside our Galaxy. Our sun is about 25,000 light years
from the center of our galaxy. The cone illustrates the neighborhood of our galaxy that the Kepler Mission will search to find habitable planets.
One of the 42 charged couple devices (CCDs) used in the Kepler focal plane array
mounted in its shipping container. Each CCD is 2.8 by 3.0 cm with 1024 by 1100 pixels.
The entire focal plane contains 95 mega pixels.
ARES DROUGE PARACHUTE TEST
Under brilliant blue Arizona skies, NASA and industry engineers successfully completed the second drop test of the drogue parachute for the Ares I rocket on Saturday, Feb. 28, at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz.
Engineers from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manage the team that conducted the test of the 68-foot-diameter drogue parachute and its 50,000-pound load -- simulating the rocket's spent first-stage motor -- from a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft flying at an altitude of 25,000 feet. The parachute and all test hardware functioned properly and landed safely.
Ares I is an in-line, two-stage rocket configuration topped by the Orion crew vehicle and its launch abort system. In addition to the vehicle's primary mission -- carrying crews of four to six astronauts to Earth orbit -- Ares I may also use its 25-ton payload capacity to deliver resources and supplies to the International Space Station, or to "park" payloads in orbit for retrieval by other spacecraft bound for the moon or other destinations.
+2 for NASA.
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