Tag: NOAA
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Boats in safety zone, technical problem combine to scrub Delta 2 launch
Credit: ULA/Jeff Spotts United Launch Alliance called off the launch of a Delta 2 rocket from California’s Central Coast early Tuesday after boats ventured into a restricted safety exclusion zone and engineers ran out of time to resolve a technical problem on the launcher. The Delta 2 rocket had only 66 seconds to take off…
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Delta 2 launch timeline with JPSS 1
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 9 a.m. EST (1400 GMT) on Nov. 14 after launch scrub and on Nov. 17 in advance of third launch attempt. A Delta 2 rocket boosted by nine strap-on motors and two liquid-fueled stages will launch NOAA’s JPSS 1 weather satellite into a 511-mile-high (822-kilometer) orbit following liftoff from Vandenberg Air…
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Delta 2 launch timeline with JPSS 1
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 9 a.m. EST (1400 GMT) on Nov. 14 after launch scrub and on Nov. 17 in advance of third launch attempt. A Delta 2 rocket boosted by nine strap-on motors and two liquid-fueled stages will launch NOAA’s JPSS 1 weather satellite into a 511-mile-high (822-kilometer) orbit following liftoff from Vandenberg Air…
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Photos: Delta 2 rocket revealed after mobile gantry rollback
Ground crews at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California retracted a mobile gantry away from the Delta 2 rocket Monday afternoon, revealing the 128-foot-tall (39-meter) booster on its launch pad awaiting liftoff with a new polar-orbiting weather observatory. The United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket is set for blastoff at 1:47:02 a.m. PST (4:47:02 a.m.…
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Photos: Delta 2 rocket revealed after mobile gantry rollback
Ground crews at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California retracted a mobile gantry away from the Delta 2 rocket Monday afternoon, revealing the 128-foot-tall (39-meter) booster on its launch pad awaiting liftoff with a new polar-orbiting weather observatory. The United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket is set for blastoff at 1:47:02 a.m. PST (4:47:02 a.m.…
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Live coverage: Delta 2 launches from California on third try
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Delta 2 rocket with the JPSS 1 weather satellite for NOAA. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. NASA TV’s live broadcast of the Delta 2 launch begins at 1:15 a.m. PST (4:15 a.m. EST; 0915 GMT).
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Live coverage: Delta 2 launches from California on third try
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Delta 2 rocket with the JPSS 1 weather satellite for NOAA. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. NASA TV’s live broadcast of the Delta 2 launch begins at 1:15 a.m. PST (4:15 a.m. EST; 0915 GMT).
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Battery changeout delays weather satellite launch from California
The JPSS 1 satellite, closed inside a transport container, arrived at the Delta 2 launch pad at Vandenberg on Oct. 24 after being fueled and prepared for flight at a nearby processing facility. Credit: NASA/Billy Vinnedge The launch of a new U.S. weather satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California has been delayed at…
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Polar-orbiting weather satellite joined up with Delta 2 rocket in California
File photo of the Delta 2 rocket’s second stage lifted atop the launcher. Credit: NASA/NOAA The first in NOAA’s new series of polar-orbiting weather satellites has been lifted atop United Launch Alliance’s second-to-last Delta 2 rocket on a launch pad in California, ready for encapsulation and final checkouts ahead of a predawn launch set for…
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Suomi NPP sees Hurricane Maria’s startling effect on Puerto Rico power grid
These side-by-side, before-and-after images of Puerto Rico show the effect of Hurricane Maria on the island’s electrical grid. Credit: NOAA A scanning instrument aboard NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite sensitive to city lights, wildfires and volcanic eruptions has returned views of Puerto Rico before and after the passage of Hurricane Maria, showing the island’s electrical grid…