InSight, MarCO-A, MarCO-B - Atlas V 401 - Vandenberg SLC-3E - 05.05.2018 - 11:05 UTC

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InSight Countdown to T-Zero: From the West Coast to the Red Planet

NASAKennedy

Опубликовано: 2 мая 2018 г.

NASA's next Red Planet explorer has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California - a big step forward in the countdown to T-zero. The spacecraft is called InSight - short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport - and it's being tested, fueled and encapsulated for launch aboard the powerful United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. The upcoming liftoff will mark the first time an interplanetary mission has launched from the West Coast.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/insight/2018/05/02/launch-weather-20-percent-go-for-saturday/

Launch Weather 20 Percent 'Go' For Saturday

Stephanie Martin
Posted May 2, 2018 at 6:57 pm

Meteorologists with the U.S. Air Force 30th Space Wing predict a 20 percent chance of favorable weather for liftoff of United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket with NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) spacecraft. The overall probability of violation will be 80 percent with the Range Safety constraint of launch visibility being the only area of concern.



The InSight launch is scheduled for Saturday, May 5, at 4:05 a.m. PDT/7:05 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Central California.

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KZLA
 
05/026 (A1020/18 ) - AIRSPACE DCC 2 ROPS DO-1806 ATLAS V STNR ALT
RESERVATION WI AN AREA DEFINED AS 3439N12038W TO 3440N12034W TO
3435N12027W TO 3317N11954W TO 3313N12002W TO POINT OF ORIGIN
SFC-UNL. 05 MAY 10:25 2018 UNTIL 05 MAY 13:27 2018. CREATED: 02 MAY 12:17 2018
 
05/032 (A1039/18 ) - AIRSPACE DCC 2 ROPS DO-1806 ATLAS V STNR ALT
RESERVATION WI AN AREA DEFINED AS 3439N12038W TO 3440N12034W TO
3435N12027W TO 3317N11954W TO 3313N12002W TO POINT OF ORIGIN SFC-UNL. 06 MAY
10:25 2018 UNTIL 06 MAY 13:27 2018. CREATED: 03 MAY 09:29 2018

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NASAInSight‏ @NASAInSight 1 ч. назад

Just 2 more days before I head to #Mars! Tune in today at 1 pm PT, to hear the latest from my mission team: http://youtube.com/NASAJPL/live 

https://www.youtube.com/NASAJPL/live

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Возможно, относится к предстоящему пуску

NAVAREA XII 182/2018 (21)

EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 051010Z TO 051343Z MAY,
   ALTERNATE 1010Z TO 1343Z DAILY 06 THRU 08 MAY
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   15-46N 110-30W, 15-21N 111-33W,
   18-43N 113-02W, 19-09N 111-57W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 081443Z MAY 18.

( 300350Z APR 2018 )

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/05/03/av-078-mission-status-center/

Live coverage: InSight set for Saturday launch from California to Mars
May 3, 2018 | Stephen Clark

05/03/2018 17:43 Stephen Clark

The first weather outlook for Saturday's launch of the InSight lander from California to Mars indicates just a 20 percent probability of favorable weather at Vandenberg Air Force Base, the Atlas 5 rocket's launch site on the Pacific coast northwest of Los Angeles.

Forecasters are concerned about the range safety constraint of launch visibility, NASA said in an update on the launch.

Launch is scheduled for a two-hour window opening at 4:05 a.m. PDT (7:05 a.m. EDT; 1105 GMT). If the mission can't take off Saturday, InSight has until June 8 to depart from Earth during this year's Mars launch opportunity. We have posted a list of launch windows for each day here.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/insight/2018/05/03/insight-prelaunch-briefing-live-today-may-3/

InSight Prelaunch Briefing Live Today, May 3

Linda Herridge
Posted May 3, 2018 at 11:21 am



With only two days remaining until the scheduled launch of NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) spacecraft, launch and mission managers will hold a prelaunch briefing today, May 3, at 4 p.m. EDT (1 p.m. PDT) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Watch the InSight Prelaunch Briefing live on NASA TV at www.nasa.gov/nasalive.

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Prelaunch briefing participants are:

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• Jim Green, chief scientist, NASA
• Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Tom Hoffman, InSight project manager at JPL
• Annick Sylvestre-Baron, deputy project manager for the InSight seismometer investigation at France's space agency, the Centre National d'Études Spatiales
• Philippe Lognonné, InSight seismometer investigation lead at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France
• Tilman Spohn, investigation lead at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Probe (HP3), an instrument on InSight
• Andrew Klesh, MarCO chief engineer at JPL
• Anne Marinan, MarCO systems engineer at JPL
• Stu Spath, InSight program manager at Lockheed Martin Space Systems
• Tim Dunn, launch director with NASA's Launch Services Program
• Scott Messer, ULA program manager for NASA launches
• Michael Hough, commander of the 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg
• 1st Lt. Kristina Williams, weather officer for the 30th Space Wing
  

Meteorologists with the U.S. Air Force 30th Space Wing predict a 20 percent chance of favorable weather for liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's InSight spacecraft. The overall probability of violation will be 80 percent with the Range Safety constraint of launch visibility being the only area of concern. Launch is scheduled for Saturday, May 5 at 7:05 a.m. EDT (4:05 a.m. PDT) from Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Central California.

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Во сколько старт по московскому времени?

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Atlas V InSight: Designing the Trajectory

United Launch Alliance

Опубликовано: 3 мая 2018 г.

Jen Krupp, ULA flight design engineer for the InSight mission to Mars, talks about working on the first interplanetary mission to launch from the West Coast of the U.S.

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Stephen Clark‏ @StephenClark1 12 мин. назад

Arrived at Vandenberg for InSight briefings. Just ran into Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator, who tells me the launch readiness review went well this morning. He feels the mission is in good hands for launch aboard an Atlas 5 rocket. More nervous about landing on Mars

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