antares,,,

T0 target time, if able to clear range issue, is now 6:55 #Antares

New launch time will be 6:55:04pm ET if we are able to clear the range for the #Antares launch tonight.

New launch time will be 6:55:04pm ET if we are able to clear the range for the #Antares launch tonight.
T-12 & counting...#Antares launch team is 'GO' pending resolution of the boat in the range for a 6:55:04pm ET

Launch count is resuming. #Antares

New Antares launch time is 6:55 p.m. Range is still red working a boat issue.

Aborting today's launch attempt due to red range safety issue #Antares 

Launch Antares rocket has been scrubbed for tonight.

We're aborting today's launch attempt of #Antares due to a boat downrange in the hazard area.

 Range is red NASA_Wallops due to boat in area. Antares launch with Cygnus ISScargo craft scrubbed tonight.

40 minute antares

#Antares launch countdown holding at T-12 mins due to a boat within the range area

 

 

 

Launch of Antares holding at T-12 minutes because of a boat in the mariner avoidance area.

 

 

Antares launch countdown holding at T-12 mins due to a boat within the range area 40minute

Antares launch countdown

#Antares launch countdown holding at T-12 mins due to a boat within the range area

Range is red

Range is red @NASA_Wallops due to boat in area. #Antares launch with #Cygnus #ISScargo craft scrubbed tonight.

Rango es redNASA_Wallops debido al barco en la zona. #Antares Lanzamiento con #Cygnus #ISScargo nave fregado esta noche.

Antares launch

Tonight's #Antares launch with #Cygnus #ISScargo craft scrubbed 10mins, 15sec before liftoff. Boat in range safety area


#Antares Lanzamiento de esta noche con #Cygnus #ISScargo nave restregó 10 minutos antes del despegue, 15sec. Barco en area

Vamos a hacer otro intento

Vamos a hacer otro intento #Antares lanzamiento mañana, martes, 28 de octubre a 18:19 EDT

Antares ,,

We will make another #Antares launch attempt tomorrow, Tuesday, October 28 at 6:19 p.m. EDT #Orb3

Stephen Hawking

Reaching for the Stars with Stephen Hawking: Professor Hawking, one of the most prominent cosmologists of our time, has given voice to the great heights humanity can achieve. He explains the need for space exploration in this video. For more with Hawking and actor Eddie Redmayne, who plays him in the film “The Theory of Everything," visit: http://go.nasa.gov/1rMos3c

ANTARES

The countdown is progressing smoothly today for the launch of Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Antares rocket, with the Cygnus cargo spacecraft on top. There are no technical concerns with the rocket or spacecraft being worked. The weather for this evening’s launch is predicted to be 99 percent favorable.

Liftoff is scheduled for 6:45 p.m. EDT from the Mid-Atlantic Spaceport's Pad 0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Live coverage of the launch on NASA TV will begin at 5:45 p.m.

Cygnus is loaded with about 5,000 pounds of science investigations, food, supplies and hardware for the space station and its crew.

A launch this evening will result in Cygnus catching up to the space station on Sunday, Nov. 2. Cygnus will be grappled at approximately 4:58 a.m. by NASA crew members Reid Wiseman and Barry “Butch” Wilmore. Cygnus will be attached to the Earth-facing port of the station's Harmony node and will remain in place approximately one month. It is scheduled depart the space station on Dec. 3.

This is Orbital's third mission to the International Space Station under its Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

For more information about tonights launch

#Antares

Live now: Coverage of tonight's 6:45pm ET/22:45 UTC #Antares launch to the International Space Station.

 

The Antares rocket will carry Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus cargo spacecraft, loaded with some 5,000 pounds of supplies and experiments, to the International Space Station. CRS-3 (short for “Commercial Resupply Services”) will be the fourth Cygnus flight, including a demonstration flight in 2013, and the first night launch of an Antares rocket.

While an assessment of a boat in a range

While an assessment of a boat in a range area is conducted, the countdown to Antares’ launch is being held at T-minus 12 minutes.

Launch is now targeted for 6:55:04 p.m. EDT.

The launch of Orbital Sciences

The launch of Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket carrying its Cygnus cargo spacecraft has been scrubbed. The range remained red because of a boat down range in the trajectory Antares would have flown had it lifted off.

United Space Alliance technician Don Pataky

United Space Alliance technician Don Pataky repairs hail-inflicted damage in the foam insulation on the external tank of Space Shuttle Discovery. The Shuttle was rolled back from Pad 39B to the Vehicle Assemby Building for repairs because access to all of the damaged areas was not possible at the pad. The work is expected to take two to three days, allowing Discovery to roll back to the pad late this week for launch of mission STS-96, the 94th launch in the Space Shuttle Program. Liftoff will occur no earlier than May 27. STS-96 is a logistics and resupply mission for the International Space Station, carrying such payloads as a Russian crane, the Strela; a U.S.-built crane; the Spacehab Oceaneering Space System Box (SHOSS), a logistics items carrier; and STARSHINE, a student-shared experiment. 05/18/1999

In the Vehicle Assembly Building, Ken Strite, NASA Quality Control

In the Vehicle Assembly Building, Ken Strite, NASA Quality Control, inspects the connection between Space Shuttle Discovery and the external tank that will be used to launch mission STS-103 in early December. This 10-day mission is designed to replace aging parts on the nine-year-old Hubble Space Telescope and to upgrade some of its functioning systems. During the flight, the astronaut crew will replace all six of the observatory's gyroscopes, a fine guidance sensor, its main computer, and other equipment. 11/05/1999

The orbiter Discovery rolls along the tow-way to the Vehicle Assembly

The orbiter Discovery rolls along the tow-way to the Vehicle Assembly Building where it will be mated with an external tank and solid rocket boosters for its launch on mission STS-103. The launch date is currently under review for early December. STS-103, the third Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, is a "call-up" due to the need to replace portions of the pointing system, the gyros, which have begun to fail on the Hubble Space Telescope. Although Hubble is operating normally and conducting its scientific observations, only three of its six gyroscopes are working properly. The gyroscopes allow the telescope to point at stars, galaxies and planets. The STS-103 crew will also be replacing a Fine Guidance Sensor and an older computer with a new enhanced model, an older data tape recorder with a solid-state digital recorder, a failed spare transmitter with a new one, and degraded insulation on the telescope with new thermal insulation. The crew will also install a Battery Voltage/Temperature Improvement Kit to protect the spacecraft batteries from overcharging and overheating when the telescope goes into a safe mode. 11/04/1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Space Shuttle Discovery makes the turn toward Launch Pad 39B

Space Shuttle Discovery makes the turn toward Launch Pad 39B on its trek atop the mobile launcher platform and crawler transporter. Once at the pad, the orbiter, external tank and solid rocket boosters will undergo final preparations for the STS-103 launch targeted for Dec. 6, 1999, at 2:37 a.m. EST. The mission is a "call-up" due to the need to replace and repair portions of the Hubble Space Telescope. Although Hubble is operating normally and conducting its scientific observations, only three of its six gyroscopes are working properly. Four EVA's are planned to make the necessary repairs and replacements on the telescope. The STS-103 crew members are Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr., Pilot Scott J. Kelly, Steven L. Smith, C. Michael Foale (Ph.D.), John M. Grunsfeld (Ph.D.), and Claude Nicollier of Switzerland and Jean-François Clervoy of France, both with the European Space Agency. 11/13/1999

nspecciona el cable de seguridad rango entre el tanque externo y cohetes de combustible sólido (SRB) en la misión STS-103 / transbordador espacial Discovery.

Rodney Wilson, with United Space Alliance, inspects the range safety cable between the external tank and solid rocket boosters (SRB) on STS-103/Space Shuttle Discovery. The cable, which relays a redundant emergency destruction signal between the SRBs in the unlikely event of a contingency, was damaged during close-out operations and is being replaced. Discovery's processing schedule leads to a target launch date of Dec. 6. 11/09/1999

 

 Rodney Wilson, con United Space Alliance, inspecciona el cable de seguridad rango entre el tanque externo y cohetes de combustible sólido (SRB) en la misión STS-103 / transbordador espacial Discovery. El cable, que transmite una señal de destrucción de emergencia redundante entre los SRB en el caso improbable de una contingencia, fue dañada durante las operaciones de cierre de salida y está siendo reemplazado. horario procesamiento del Discovery lleva a una fecha de lanzamiento del objetivo 6 de diciembre 11/09/1999

 

NASA's Earth Minute: Earth Has a Fever

vudeo climate

Earth has a fever and needs our care to get better: [video] http://youtu.be/nAuv1R34BHA

#EarthRightNow #ActOnClimate

California Drying: Satellite data reveals

California Drying: Satellite data reveals the extent of water storage loss in the state since 2002. http://go.nasa.gov/1tkM0ME

For more information on the GRACE mission that made this observation possible, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/grace

captured this image

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (Little SDO) captured this image today of a solar flare. The flare is the bright flash of light on the right limb of the sun. A burst of solar material erupting out into space can be seen just below it. Details: http://1.usa.gov/1yB2Zm

 

nasa

nasa pink

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Spread the word, wear pink and show your support.
We'll start with our NASA Goes Pink Flickr Gallery.
#BreastCancer

NASA Goes Pink

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A growing set of pink-hued NASA images, compiled in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. From Earth's topography to far away moons and supernovas...these are a few ways that NASA thinks about pink....

All month, we're "going pink" in support of #BreastCancer

All month, we're "going pink" in support of #BreastCancer.
Here's our International Space Station Research Payload Ops team, who help astronauts and scientists research cancer on the #ISS.
#PinkUpMSFC #BreastCancer #BCaware — con Juliette Lambert.

#NASA's International Space Station provides a unique testing facility in the fight against cancer

#NASA's International Space Station provides a unique testing facility in the fight against cancer. Microgravity research investigations include protein crystal growth studies on cells related to leukemia, breast and skin cancer, etc.
#PinkUpMSFC #BCaware

ATLANTIC OCEAN - There are 2 low pressure areas that the National Hurricane

ATLANTIC OCEAN - There are 2 low pressure areas that the National Hurricane Center (NHC) is watching in the Atlantic, but both have low chances for development. In this image from NOAA's GOES-East satellite, the NHC marked the 2 areas with an "X."
Low #1: A non-tropical low pressure system located about 330 miles south-southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is producing gale force
winds and disorganized showers and thunderstorms. This low is
merging with a frontal system and is not expected to acquire
tropical cyclone characteristics. Little motion of this system is
expected during the next few days as it interacts with and becomes
absorbed by an upper-level low approaching from the northeast coast of the United States. It has a near ZERO chance for development.
Low #2 This small area of low pressure located about 840 miles northeast of Bermuda is moving rapidly toward the north-northeast and is producing disorganized showers. Tropical cyclone formation is not anticipated due to strong upper-level winds and cooler sea
surface temperatures. Also has a near ZERO chance of development.

 

CENTRAL PACIFIC- No tropical cyclones

 

 CENTRAL PACIFIC- No tropical cyclones are expected through late Friday night. Here's a look at the Pacific Ocean today from NOAA's GOES-West satellite. You can see Tropical Storm Simon near the southwestern Mexico coast (far right).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 southwestern Mexico coast (far right).

 

 

 

 

NW PACIFIC *Full Update* NASA Image Shows Typhoon Phanfone's

NW PACIFIC *Full Update* NASA Image Shows Typhoon Phanfone's Pinhole Eye
Typhoon Phanfone's eye appeared the size of a pinhole on visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite on Oct.3. On Thursday, Oct. 2, Typhoon Phanfone's maximum sustained winds strengthened to 100 knots (126.6 mph/ 203.7 kph). STORY/IMAGE:
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/phanfone-northwestern-pacific-ocean

NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN - System 90W Still Organizing

 

 

 

 

NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN - System 90W Still Organizing
System 90W still has an ill-defined center of circulation on satellite imagery today. Despite that, System 90W is generating a large area of strong thunderstorms (deep convection), so the Joint Typhoon Warning Center noted that it has a high chance for development into a tropical cyclone. It is centered near 6.0 north latitude and 163.7 east longitude, about 330 nautical miles east of Pohnpei in the Caroline Islands –one of the four Federated States of Micronesia. This satellite image provided by the Joint Typhoon Warning

 

 

 

 Center/SATOPS

EASTERN PACIFIC *Update and Video!*Satellite Animation

EASTERN PACIFIC *Update and Video!*Satellite Animation Shows Formation of Tropical Storm Simon Mexico's Southwestern Coast
Mexico's western coast is again dealing with rain, wind and rough surf from another tropical storm. NOAA's GOES-West satellite saw the formation of Tropical Storm Simon on Oct. 2. A NASA animation of NOAA's GOES-West satellite imagery shows the development of Simon over three days. UPDATE and VIDEO: 

PACÍFICO ORIENTAL * Actualización y Vídeo! * Animación satélite muestra la formación de costa del sudoeste de la tormenta tropical Simon México
La costa occidental de México está tratando de nuevo con la lluvia, el viento y el fuerte oleaje de otra tormenta tropical. De la NOAA satélite GOES-West vio la formación de la tormenta tropical Simon en octubre 2. Una animación de la NASA de la NOAA de imágenes de satélite GOES-West muestra el desarrollo de Simon durante tres días. UPDATE y VIDEO: http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/tropical-storm-simon-eastern-pacificsd/