Curiosity MSL (Mars Science Laboratory) - Atlas V 541 - Canaveral SLC-41 - 26.11.2011

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[Дмитрий Виницкий]

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Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

The Mars Science Laboratory was moved from NASA Kennedy Space Center's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) to Space Launch Complex 41 during the early morning of Nov. 3 and hoisted atop the Atlas V rocket.

The Mars Science Laboratory was hoisted atop the payload transporter in the PHSF on Nov. 2 after being integrated into the Atlas V rocket payload fairing.

Curiosity has 10 science instruments to search for evidence about whether Mars has had environments favorable for microbial life, including chemical ingredients for life. The unique rover will use a laser to look inside rocks and release the gasses so that its spectrometer can analyze and send the data back to Earth.

More information about Curiosity is online at: http://www.nasa.gov/msl or http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl .

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1176

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Mars Science Lab Launch Windows

The Mars Science Laboratory's planetary launch period opens Nov. 25 and extends through Dec. 18, providing 24 days for the Atlas 5 rocket to blast off with the Curiosity rover.

Times listed in Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5)

Launch Date.....Window Open...Window Close...Window Duration

Nov. 25..........10:25 a.m.....12:08 p.m.......1hr 43min
Nov. 26..........10:02 a.m.....11:45 a.m.......1hr 43min
Nov. 27...........9:41 a.m.....11:24 a.m.......1hr 43min
Nov. 28...........9:19 a.m.....10:59 a.m.......1hr 40min
Nov. 29...........9:03 a.m.....10:43 a.m.......1hr 40min
Nov. 30...........8:48 a.m.....10:33 a.m.......1hr 45min
Dec. 1............8:35 a.m.....10:23 a.m.......1hr 48min
Dec. 2............8:22 a.m.....10:10 a.m.......1hr 48min
Dec. 3............8:11 a.m......9:59 a.m.......1hr 48min
Dec. 4............8:00 a.m......9:48 a.m.......1hr 48min
Dec. 5............7:50 a.m......9:37 a.m.......1hr 47min
Dec. 6............7:40 a.m......9:27 a.m.......1hr 47min
Dec. 7............7:31 a.m......9:16 a.m.......1hr 45min
Dec. 8............7:23 a.m......9:08 a.m.......1hr 45min
Dec. 9............7:15 a.m......8:57 a.m.......1hr 42min
Dec. 10...........7:12 a.m......8:49 a.m.......1hr 37min
Dec. 11...........7:05 a.m......8:40 a.m.......1hr 35min
Dec. 12...........7:03 a.m......8:38 a.m.......1hr 35min
Dec. 13...........6:47 a.m......8:21 a.m.......1hr 34min
Dec. 14...........6:46 a.m......8:13 a.m.......1hr 27min
Dec. 15...........6:45 a.m......8:03 a.m.......1hr 18min
Dec. 16...........6:43 a.m......7:53 a.m.......1hr 10min
Dec. 17...........6:42 a.m......7:42 a.m.......1hr 00min
Dec. 18...........6:46 a.m......7:30 a.m.......0hr 44min

See our Mission Status Center for the latest news on the launch.

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av028/launchwindows.html

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The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover was moved from NASA Kennedy Space Center's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) to Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station early this morning. It arrived at the launch complex at about 4:35 a.m. EDT. Teams then hoisted MSL on top of the Atlas V rocket.

MSL was placed on the payload transporter on Nov. 2 in the PHSF after being integrated into the Atlas V payload fairing.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html

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SFN: Mars rover joins Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral[/size]

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NASA to Hold Media Briefing About Mars Rover Launch

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST), Thursday, Nov. 10, to discuss the upcoming launch of the Mars Science Laboratory, with the largest and most capable rover going to another planet. The televised event will take place at NASA Headquarters in Washington and will be carried live on NASA TV and Ustream.

The Mars Science Laboratory mission is scheduled to launch at 7:25 a.m. PST (10:25 a.m. EST), on Nov. 25. The launch period extends to Dec. 18. The spacecraft will deliver a car-size rover named Curiosity to the surface of Mars in August 2012.

News conference participants are:
-- Doug McCuistion, director, Mars Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington
-- Ashwin Vasavada, Mars Science Laboratory deputy project scientist, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
-- Pete Theisinger, Mars Science Laboratory project manager, JPL

NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information is at: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv . The news conference will also be carried on JPL's Ustream channel, with a moderated chat, at http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl .

For more information about the new rover, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl .

JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory mission for NASA.

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NASA Ready for November Launch of Car-Size Mars Rover

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's most advanced mobile robotic laboratory, which will examine one of the most intriguing areas on Mars, is in final preparations for a launch from Florida's Space Coast at 10:25 a.m. EST (7:25 a.m. PST) on Nov. 25.

The Mars Science Laboratory mission will carry Curiosity, a rover with more scientific capability than any ever sent to another planet. The rover is now sitting atop an Atlas V rocket awaiting liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

"Preparations are on track for launching at our first opportunity," said Pete Theisinger, Mars Science Laboratory project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "If weather or other factors prevent launching then, we have more opportunities through Dec. 18."

Scheduled to land on the Red Planet in August 2012, the one-ton rover will examine Gale Crater during a nearly two-year prime mission. Curiosity will land near the base of a layered mountain 3 miles (5 kilometers) high inside the crater. The rover will investigate whether environmental conditions ever have been favorable for development of microbial life and preserved evidence of those conditions.

"Gale gives us a superb opportunity to test multiple potentially habitable environments and the context to understand a very long record of early environmental evolution of the planet," said John Grotzinger, project scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "The portion of the crater where Curiosity will land has an alluvial fan likely formed by water-carried sediments. Layers at the base of the mountain contain clays and sulfates, both known to form in water."

Curiosity is twice as long and five times as heavy as earlier Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. The rover will carry a set of 10 science instruments weighing 15 times as much as its predecessors' science payloads.

A mast extending to 7 feet (2.1 meters) above ground provides height for cameras and a laser-firing instrument to study targets from a distance. Instruments on a 7-foot-long (2.1-meter-long) arm will study targets up close. Analytical instruments inside the rover will determine the composition of rock and soil samples acquired with the arm's powdering drill and scoop. Other instruments will characterize the environment, including the weather and natural radiation that will affect future human missions.

"Mars Science Laboratory builds upon the improved understanding about Mars gained from current and recent missions," said Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "This mission advances technologies and science that will move us toward missions to return samples from, and eventually send humans to, Mars."

The mission is challenging and risky. Because Curiosity is too heavy to use an air-bag cushioned touchdown, the mission will use a new landing method, with a rocket-powered descent stage lowering the rover on a tether like a kind of sky-crane.

The mission will pioneer precision landing methods during the spacecraft's crucial dive through Mars' atmosphere next August to place the rover onto a smaller landing target than any previously for a Mars mission. The target inside Gale Crater is 12.4 miles (20 kilometers) by 15.5 miles (25 kilometers). Rough terrain just outside that area would have disqualified the landing site without the improved precision.

No mission to Mars since the Viking landers in the 1970s has sought a direct answer to the question of whether life has existed on Mars. Curiosity is not designed to answer that question by itself, but its investigations for evidence about prerequisites for life will steer potential future missions toward answers.

The mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Curiosity was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. Launch management for the mission is the responsibility of NASA's Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA's Space Network, managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will provide space communications services for the rocket. NASA's international Deep Space Network will provide MSL spacecraft acquisition and communication throughout the mission.

For more information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl . You can also follow the mission on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity and on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity .

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20111110.html

[sas]

Они бы его не вывозили бы, пока наш не уйдет с опорной...
У нашего народа знатные снайперские традиции.

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Они бы его не вывозили бы, пока наш не уйдет с опорной...
У нашего народа знатные снайперские традиции.

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[Llevellyn]

а у скайкрана стропы не запутаются/перекрутятся?

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Скоро узнаем.

[Vj.Sj]

А MSL застрахован, никто не знает?

[Дмитрий Виницкий]

Нет, конечно, у них это невозможно - уголовщина.