OSIRIS-Rex – Atlas V 411 (AV-067) – Canaveral SLC-41 – 08.09.2016 23:05 UTC

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Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  8 ч.8 часов назад  
Long-range forecast estimates 80% of acceptable weather for Thursday evening's Atlas 5/OSIRIS-REx launch: http://bit.ly/2bLZu7D 

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http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/09/04/weather-forecast-favorable-for-atlas-5-to-launch-nasa-asteroid-probe-thursday/

Weather forecast favorable for Atlas 5 to launch NASA asteroid probe Thursday             
 September 4, 2016 Justin Ray
 
File photo of Atlas 5. Credit: United Launch Alliance

CAPE CANAVERAL — Prognosticators are predicting favorable weather conditions to launch an Atlas 5 rocket Thursday and send NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on its interplanetary journey to interrogate an asteroid and collect a surface sample for return to Earth.
The Air Force's 45th Weather Squadron at Cape Canaveral forecasts an 80 percent chance of acceptable launch conditions. The primary concerns for launch will be cumulus and anvil clouds.
The United Launch Alliance vehicle will have 24 split-second opportunities to launch, one coming every five minutes throughout a two-hour window from 7:05 to 9:00 p.m. EDT (2305-0100 GMT).
The flight will originate from Cape Canaveral's Complex 41. The rocket will be rolled from its assembly building to the pad on Wednesday morning.
The specifics for the launch window include scattered low- and high-level clouds, good visibility, winds from the east at 10 to 15 knots, a relative humidity of 80 percent and a temperature of 83 degrees F.
"Afternoon and evening thunderstorms continue to favor the interior with a coastal shower threat during the evening and overnight hours. Winds from the east with gusts in the mid to upper teens during the count. Upper level winds from the west will act to transport anvil cloud from interior thunderstorms back toward the East Coast," Air Force meteorologists said today.
If the launch slips to 24 hours for some reason, the two-hour window on Friday opens at 7:10 p.m. EDT (2310 GMT) with a 70 percent chance of acceptable weather.
"In the event of a 24-hour delay, moisture continues to recover with an increased coastal shower threat associated with an upper level trough. The primary concerns for a 24-hour delay are cumulus clouds and anvil clouds," forecasters report.
Given the time-critical nature of the launch, with only 34 days to depart Earth while the planet is aligned with Asteroid Bennu, the Air Force-controlled Eastern Range has reserved three consecutive days for OSIRIS-REx instead of the usual two days before negotiating for more, if needed.
Weather for Saturday's launch opportunity opening at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 GMT) calls for another 70-percent chance of meeting the criteria.
OSIRIS-REx will reach Bennu two years after launch, enter orbit around the mountain-sized space rock to use its instruments to intimately map the chemistry and terrain of the asteroid and sel ect a target accessible and scientifically-rich sample site.
In the summer of 2020, the spacecraft will deploy its robot arm and grab up to four pounds of primordial surface material that could hold organics and the ingredients of life left over fr om the formation of the solar system.
After stowing the pristine soil into a contamination-free landing pod, the spacecraft will fly back to Earth and eject the canister to land in Utah on Sept. 24, 2023, completing a 4.4-billion-mile trek.
On Saturday, launch site workers completed special cleaning procedures on the vehicle. The precautionary task followed the nearby SpaceX rocket explosion that sent a dark cloud of smoke billowing toward the Atlas 5 rocket's assembly building for several hours Thursday.
Otherwise, it is a quiet holiday weekend for the OSIRIS-REx team. The next key event occurs Tuesday morning when the Launch Readiness Review is held.
"Spacecraft is healthy, Atlas 5 is ready, and team is in high spirits," mission leader Dante Lauretta tweeted on Saturday.

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File photo of Atlas 5. Credit: United Launch Alliance

Шикарное фото .

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https://ria.ru/science/20160906/1476252563.html

Зонд OSIRIS-REx пока не потерял возможности "обрести вторую жизнь" после сбора образцов пород с астероида Бенну, однако участники проекта пока не решили, куда он может отправиться, сообщили ученые на пресс-конференции в Центре космических полетов НАСА имени Кеннеди.
"Подобный вариант действительно существует. С другой стороны, у нас пока нет конкретных планов насчет того, что мы будем делать с OSIRIS-REx после завершения миссии, и зонд изначально будет отправлен на стабильную орбиту и будет вращаться вокруг Солнца", — заявили участники миссии.
Американский "астероидный проект" OSIRIS-REx (Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer) будет для США первой программой исследования астероида с помощью автоматического зонда. "Осирис" будет запущен в четверг, 8 сентября 2016 года и приблизится к астероиду Бенну (1999 RQ36) в 2020 году.

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Dante Lauretta ‏@DSLauretta  19 мин.19 минут назад  
Meanwhile, spacecraft successfully powered on, battery and other enable plugs installed, final thermal blankets complete. @OSIRISREx ready!
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  2 ч.2 часа назад  
Christina Richey, deputy program scientist: 75% of sample set aside for future, whether #OSIRISREx returns 60 grams or many times that.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  2 ч.2 часа назад  
Dworkin: don't do any more science once we collect the sample; it's all about keeping that precious sample safe. #OSIRISREx
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  2 ч.2 часа назад  
Jason Dworkin, NASA/GSFC: samples returned by #OSIRISREx will allow us to answer questions unanticipated at the time of launch.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  2 ч.2 часа назад  
Last panel: nearly all jackets and ties. This (science) panel: all matching #OSIRISREx polos.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  3 ч.3 часа назад  
Lauretta: sometimes, seeing the spacecraft prepared for launch, I had to pinch myself to convince myself I'm not dreaming. #OSIRISREx
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  3 ч.3 часа назад  
Dunn: assessment completed over weekend about any commonality btwn SLC-40 accident and this launch; determined no elevated risk. #OSIRISREx
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  3 ч.3 часа назад
Messer: did an extensive walk down of the pad after last week's SLC-40 incident; no damage or concerns found. #OSIRISREx
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  3 ч.3 часа назад  
Lauretta: "absolutely not nervous" about the launch, but am anxious since I've been working on this for 12 years. #OSIRISREx
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  3 ч.3 часа назад  
Flinn: 70% chance of acceptable weather of launch slips to Friday or Saturday. #OSIRISREx
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  3 ч.3 часа назад  
Clay Flinn, launch weather officer: 80% chance of acceptable weather for launch, cumulus clouds coming off the ocean key concern #OSIRISREx
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  3 ч.3 часа назад  
Michael Donnelly, NASA #OSIRISREx program manager: 17 minutes after spacecraft separation should have stable communications established.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  3 ч.3 часа назад  
Scott Messer, ULA: #OSIRISREx has a 115-minute launch window, with launch opportunities every 5 minutes throughout.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  3 ч.3 часа назад  
Tim Dunn, NASA launch manager: launch campaign has been going well. Launch Readiness Review passed this morning. #OSIRISREx
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  3 ч.3 часа назад  
Lauretta: when starting #OSIRISREx, thought the "resource identification" was really futuristic sci-fi. But now plans for asteroid mining.
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  3 ч.3 часа назад  
Dante Lauretta: #OSIRISREx is an "awesome" acronym. "It's also my fault."
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  3 ч.3 часа назад  
On NASA TV at 1pm EDT: an #OSIRISREx pre-launch briefing from NASA KSC, followed by a science briefing at 2: http://go.nasa.gov/2cxUrI2 

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James Dean ‏@flatoday_jdean  51 мин51 минуту назад
Atlas V, @OSIRISREx are rolling to LC41 pad for 7:05pm Thursday launch from Cape Canaveral AFS.

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Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust 21 мин.21 минуту назад
Pulling up to the pad. #OSIRISREx
 
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust 25 мин.25 минут назад
Photographers at the press site distracted by a small crab. Don't think he's badged to cover the launch. #OSIRISREx
 
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust 37 мин.37 минут назад
Halfway (maybe a bit more) to the pad. #OSIRISREx
 
 
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  SpaceNews ‏@SpaceNews_Inc 1 ч.1 час назад
.@NASA's #OSIRISREx cleared for Thursday launch http://spacenews.com/osiris-rex-cleared-for-thursday-launch/ ...
 
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust 53 мин.53 минуты назад
Atlas on the move to the pad. #OSIRISREx
 
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust 1 ч.1 час назад
Waiting for the Atlas 5 to roll from the building on the left to the pad on the right. #OSIRISREx
 
 
  Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust 2 ч.2 часа назад
Back at KSC this morning to see the Atlas 5 rollout to the pad for #OSIRISREx (which is just up the road from SLC-40...)

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ULA ‏@ulalaunch  56 мин.56 минут назад  
There she rolls!! #AtlasV with @OSIRISREx rolls to the launch pad. #ToBennuAndBack
 

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Jeff Foust ‏@jeff_foust  1 ч1 час назад  
Good look at the Atlas 5 on the pad at SLC-41 for tomorrow night's #OSIRISREx launch.
 

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http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/09/07/photos-asteroid-bound-nasa-probe-encapsulated-mounted-atop-atlas-5-for-launch/

Photos: Asteroid probe encapsulated, mounted atop Atlas 5 for launch
 September 7, 2016 Justin Ray
 
Technicians inched the two halves of the Atlas 5's aluminum nose cone around NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to package the asteroid sample return probe, then moved the satellite to the rocket's assembly building and hoisted it aboard the two-stage booster during the final days of August for the Sept. 8 launch.
The United Launch Alliance rocket will provide the boost that the probe needs for its Earth departure, embarking on a two-year outbound leg to reach Asteroid Bennu in August 2018.
After orbiting a mere 5,000 feet above the asteroid's surface, then closing to 3,300 feet to map and survey Bennu for more than a year, the craft will perform a touch-and-go maneuver to capture up to four pounds of soil in July 2020. The specimen will be stowed in a decent capsule that lands in Utah on Sept. 24, 2023.
With no problems being worked on the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft or Atlas 5 launch vehicle, encapsulation was accomplished on Wednesday, Aug. 24 inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
The payload fairing, measuring 14 feet in diameter and 39 feet long, shields the satellite during the climb through Earth's atmosphere. It will be jettisoned four minutes and 27 seconds into flight.
"It's the next major step in getting to the launch pad," said Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator with the University of Arizona.
"But I've come to really enjoy visiting the spacecraft and seeing it grow up. I mean literally, I was there when they were casting the composites for the decks and the core cylinder and saw it as a scattered bunch of pieces in the laboratory, which was the first time we had real hardware that wasn't just something on a PowerPoint chart.
On Friday, Aug. 26, the shrouded spacecraft was lifted aboard the transport trailer that would haul OSIRIS-REx to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Complex 41 and the doorway of Atlas 5's Vertical Integration Facility. That move and subsequent mating to the rocket occurred as planned on Monday, Aug. 29.
"It's a beautiful spacecraft, it really has behaved very well for us. So I'm happy to send it on the journey to Bennu and back, but I'm also going to miss just the awesome engineering that is the privilege of this position," Lauretta said.
Photo credit: NASA

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https://ria.ru/science/20160908/1476360857.html

Старт ракеты-носителя Atlas V 411 компании United Launch Alliance с космическим кораблем OSIRIS-Rex (Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer) состоится в 19:05 по времени Восточного побережья США (02:05 мск 9 сентября) с космодрома на мысе Канаверал (штат Флорида). НАСА называет предстоящую миссию на астероид Бенну (1999 RQ36) "уникальной" и возлагает на нее большие надежды как в отношении научных данных, так и отработки технических возможностей для будущих полетов в космос. В США отмечают, что впервые американский космический корабль доставит на Землю образцы с поверхности астероида.

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У Сергея не правильно?
8 сентября – OSIRIS-Rex – Atlas V 411 (AV-067) – Канаверал SLC-41 – 23:05-01:00

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Lanista пишет:
У Сергея не правильно?
8 сентября – OSIRIS-Rex – Atlas V 411 (AV-067) – Канаверал SLC-41 – 23:05-01:00

UTC

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Однорукий Атлас как то стрёмновато смотрится.  Как будто Союз с одной боковушкой.  

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[тавот]

Как погода во Флориде, каков прогноз на запуск ?

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тавот пишет:
Как погода во Флориде, каков прогноз на запуск ?

На 19:42 мск прогноз не очень хороший:http://www.accuweather.com/ru/us/miami-fl/33128/weather-forecast/347936 

[Андрей Суворов]

Чё-то давно "Центавр" не отказывал

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Андрей Суворов пишет:
Чё-то давно "Центавр" не отказывал

Ну нафиг, Фалкона хватило.  :evil: