NASA selects explorer mission of opportunity investigations
June 21st, 2008 by
NASA has selected two science proposals to be the agency’s next Explorer Program Mission of Opportunity investigations.
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Archive for June 21st, 2008
In-orbit checkout of second SBIRS HEO payload completed
June 21st, 2008 by
A joint U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin team announced that it has successfully completed on-orbit checkout of the second Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO-2) payload in the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) constellation.
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GLAST check-out proceeding well
June 21st, 2008 by
NASA’s Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is safely up-and-running well in orbit approximately 565 kilometers above Earth’s surface, the agency said.
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Jason 2 in good health after launch from Vandenberg
June 21st, 2008 by
Rocket: Delta II 7320-10; Payload: Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM/Jason 2); Date: 20 June 2008, 0746 UTC; Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, USA. Separation from the launcher and injection of the satellite into orbit occurred 55 minutes after launch, followed by the deployment of the solar array using a pre-defined on-board command sequence.
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