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

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Stephen Clark

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MarCO

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Брифинг завершен

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Tory Bruno‏Подлинная учетная запись @torybruno 9 ч. назад

Let's go to Mars. #InSight

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InSight Countdown to T-Zero, Episode 2: Into the Fairing

NASAKennedy

Опубликовано: 3 мая 2018 г.

The launch campaign heats up for NASA's InSight spacecraft and United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Mars-bound probe is secured inside its protective payload fairing, then moved overnight to the launch pad, where it's lifted into position atop the waiting Atlas V. Also on board are two small communications-relay satellites - MarCO-A and MarCO-B - intended to become the first CubeSats to venture into deep space.

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NASAJPL Live: InSight Launch Week

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Трансляция началась 2 часа назад

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InSight Prelaunch Briefing

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Опубликовано: 4 мая 2018 г.

InSight, the first planetary mission to take off from the West Coast, is targeted to launch at 4:05 a.m. PDT (7:05 a.m. EDT) on May 5 from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California, aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. The agency hosted a prelaunch briefing on May 3 at VAFB.
Presenters included:

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

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/insight/2018/05/03/insight-teams-proceed-toward-launch-may-5/

InSight Teams Proceed Toward Launch May 5

Stephanie Martin
Posted May 3, 2018 at 8:55 pm



The InSight mission and launch teams today concluded a successful Launch Readiness Review. There are no technical issues being worked at this time. Teams are proceeding for liftoff on Saturday, May 5, at 4:05 a.m. PDT/7:05 a.m. EDT on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA's InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) spacecraft. The launch will be the first interplanetary launch from the West Coast.

A marine layer fog is expected over the launch pad and will reduce visibility on launch day to 3/4 – 1 1/2 miles. This Range Safety constraint of launch visibility is the only area of concern. The 30th Space Wing weather officer indicated the launch visibility requirement may be waived by Range Safety pending confirmation that all ground telemetry systems are operational during the countdown.

All other range safety constraints have a zero probability of violation.

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Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 11 ч. назад

The new @NASA Mars probe, @NASAInsight, is scheduled for launch at 1105 UTC May 5. It will enter a 185 x 185 km x 63.5 deg parking orbit and then be boosted to a C3=8.2 km2/s2 escape trajectory, passing lunar orbit 30 hours after launch

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Insight will leave the Earth-Moon system on May 10 to enter a 1.0 x 1.4 AU solar orbit inclined 2.3 deg to the ecliptic. It will enter Mars' Hill sphere on Nov 22 and land on Nov 26.

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05/04/2018 05:40 Stephen Clark

Launch officials do not expect a layer of fog expected during Saturday's two-hour launch window to prevent liftoff of NASA's InSight spacecraft from California's Central Coast on the way to Mars.

The official weather outlook issued today from the 30th Space Wing calls for an 80 percent chance of violating range safety constraints related to visibility during the launch of the InSight spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. But Col. Michael Hough, commander of the 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg Air Force Base, said the launch team has other ways of meeting the visibility requirement.

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"We have a lot of things that monitor the rocket, and if one of those things should fail and ... we have to have visibility from a safety standpoint, then the Air Force would say, yes, now we have to have visibility," Hough said in a pre-launch briefing with reporters and launch guests Thursday.

Nevertheless, the fog in the forecast during the InSight mission's two-hour launch window Saturday, which opens at 4:05 a.m. PDT (7:05 a.m. EDT; 1105 GMT), could spoil the view for spectators in the area.

"I'm saying there's an 80 percent chance you will not be able to see the rocket launch at liftoff," said Lt. Kristina Williams, weather officer at the 30th Space Wing.

Members of the public looking for the rocket from farther away, such as in Los Angeles, may have better luck once the Atlas 5 clears the low-altitude fog layer, which is expected around 200 to 600 feet above the launch pad.

Fog is common at Vandenberg and typically does not prevent launches.

The official weather outlook issued Thursday predicts a shallow marine layer over the Atlas 5 launch pad, visibility of one-half to one mile, northerly winds of 7 to 10 knots, and a temperature in the lower 50s Fahrenheit.

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Atlas V InSight Mission Profile

United Launch Alliance

Опубликовано: 4 мая 2018 г.

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Старый пишет:
Во сколько старт по московскому времени?

Окно в 14:05-16:05 отсюда:5 мая – InSight, MarCO-A, MarCO-B [Mars Cube One] – Atlas V 401 (AV-078 ) – Ванденберг SLC-3E - 14:05-16:05
И ТАСС тоже наверно форум читает: 

http://tass.ru/kosmos/5175892

Изучать сейсмическую активность на Марсе будет новый посадочный модуль InSight, который планируется запустить в субботу с базы Ванденберг (штат Калифорния). Старт ракеты-носителя Altas-V401 намечен на 04:05 по времени Тихоокеанского побережья (14:05 мск). Сначала станция будет выведена на полярную орбиту вокруг Земли, а затем, после включения двигателей, выйдет на траекторию полета к Марсу.

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NASA_EDGE‏ @NASA_EDGE 23 ч. назад

We are getting closer to the rollback of the Mobile Service Tower that protects @ulalaunch Atlas V launch vehicle and @NASAInSight. Check out our InSight Rollback show on May 5 form 2:30 - 3:00 am EDT on NASA TV and Facebook Live (http://www.facebook.com/nasaedgefan ). #InSight #NASASocial

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https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/news/2018/nasas-first-mission-to-study-the-interior-of-mars-awaits-may-5-launch

MAY 3, 2018
NASA's First Mission to Study the Interior of Mars Awaits May 5 Launch



All systems are go for NASA's next launch to the Red Planet.

The early-morning liftoff on Saturday of the Mars InSight lander will mark the first time in history an interplanetary launch will originate from the West Coast. InSight will launch from the U.S. Air Force Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 3E. The two-hour launch window will open on May 5 at 4:05 a.m. PDT (7:05 a.m. EDT).

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InSight, for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, will launch aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. InSight will study the deep interior of Mars to learn how all rocky planets formed, including Earth and its Moon. The lander's instruments include a seismometer to detect marsquakes, and a probe that will monitor the flow of heat from the planet's interior.

The ULA rocket will carry the spacecraft over the Channel Islands just off the California Coast and continue climbing out over the Pacific, shadowing the coastline south beyond Baja California. InSight's Atlas will reach orbit about 13 minutes after launch, when the rocket is about 1,200 miles (1,900 kilometers) northwest of Isabella Island, Ecuador.

"For those Southern Californians who are interested in rockets or space exploration, or have insomnia, we hope to put on a great show this Saturday," said Tom Hoffman, InSight project manager from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "But for those who want to sleep in on Saturday, there will be another opportunity to engage with this historic mission. We will be landing on Mars in the western Elysium Planitia region on Monday, Nov. 26, around noon Pacific time. You will be able to watch a live stream of this landing while working on your holiday shopping."

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Getting a Mars mission flying requires a great many milestones. Among those still to come are the official start of the countdown to launch -- which comes on Friday, May 4 at 10:14 p.m. PDT (Saturday, May 5, 1:14 a.m. EDT). A little over an hour later, at about 11:30 p.m. PDT (May 5, 2:30 a.m. EDT), the 260-foot-tall (80-meter) Mobile Service Tower -- a structure that has been protecting the Atlas V launch vehicle and its InSight payload during their vertical assembly -- will begin a 20-minute long, 250-foot (about 80-meter) roll away from the Atlas. Four hours and 25 minutes later, the launch window will open.

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"I've been to several rocket launches, but it is a whole different vibe when there is something you've been working on for years sitting in the nose cone waiting to get hurled beyond our atmosphere," said Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator at JPL. "But as exciting as launch day will be, it's just a first step in a journey that should tell us not only why Mars formed the way it did, but how planets take shape in general."

InSight's launch period is May 5 through June 8, 2018, with multiple launch opportunities over windows of approximately two hours each date. Launch opportunities are set five minutes apart during each date's window. Whichever date the launch occurs, InSight's landing on Mars is planned for Nov. 26, 2018, around noon PST (3 p.m. EST).

JPL manages InSight for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The InSight spacecraft, including cruise stage and lander, was built and tested by Lockheed Martin Space in Denver. NASA's Launch Services Program at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida provides launch management. United Launch Alliance of Centennial, Colorado, is NASA's launch service provider of the Atlas 5 rocket. A number of European partners, including France's Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), are supporting the InSight mission. In particular, CNES provided the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, with significant contributions from the Max Planck Institute for Solar Systems Research (MPS). DLR provided the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) instrument.

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