Четыре MMS - Atlas V 421 - Canaveral SLC-41 - 13.03.2015 - 02:44 UTC

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Сразу мои поздравления Энергомашу!

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LIFTOFF!  -  0244 GMT (10:44 p.m. EDT)
Here's a look at some stats about today's mission. This will be:

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• The 635th launch for Atlas program since 1957
• The 341st Atlas launch from Cape Canaveral
• The 224th mission of a Centaur upper stage
• The 201st use of Centaur by an Atlas rocket
• The 43rd Atlas 5 launch from Cape Canaveral
• The 456th production RL10 engine to be launched
• The 59th flight of the RD-180 main engine
• The 53rd launch of an Atlas 5 since 2002
• The 12th NASA mission aboard an Atlas 5
• The 81st Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle flight
• The 94th United Launch Alliance flight overall
• The 63rd United Launch Alliance flight from Cape Canaveral
• The 45th Atlas 5 under United Launch Alliance
• The 35th 400-series flight of the Atlas 5
• The 4th Atlas 5 to fly in the 421 configuration
• The 2nd Atlas 5 launch of 2015
  

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Вроде даже второе включение прошло

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А нет, должно должно вроде через 30мин

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Включился

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Вроде отделяются по-тихоньку

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Последний отделился

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Да все хлопают и поздравляют друг друга

[azeast]

us2-star пишет:
The 59th flight of the RD-180 main engine

С чем и поздравляю!

[che wi]

Поздравляю с успешным запуском!

United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches Solar Probes to Study Space Weather for NASA
http://www.ulalaunch.com/ula-successfully-launches-nasa-mms.aspx


Liftoff of MMS

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[Space Alien]

Ми поздравления !

MMS Spacecraft Separates from Centaur

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KBOB пишет:

ZOOR пишет:
Круто, что сказать.
Интересно, "запасной план" на случай отказа одного-двух из тетраэдра имеется?

MMS 1 (John)
MMS 2 (Paul)
MMS 3 (George)
MMS 4 (Ringo)
какое отношение они имеют к Ливерпульской четверке?

идею спёрли у взорвавшихся на Ariana 5 Clusters: Rumba, Tango, Salsa & Samba.

[che wi]

07.09.15

As of 8 p.m. EDT on July 9, 2015, the four spacecraft of NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission were moved into the mission's initial tetrahedron formation — that is, a formation in which the spacecraft sit at the points of a four-sided pyramid.  The spacecraft are separated by a distances of 100 miles: MMS is now flying the tightest, most precise formation in the history of spaceflight.  Future configurations will have MMS spacecraft flying even closer — within four miles of each other.

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/mms-post-launch-mission-highlights/index.html

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NASA Spacecraft Discovers New Magnetic Process in Turbulent Space

NASA Goddard

Опубликовано: 9 мая 2018 г.

Though close to home, the space immediately around Earth is full of hidden secrets and invisible processes. In a new discovery reported in the journal Nature, scientists working with NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft — MMS — have uncovered a new type of magnetic event in our near-Earth environment by using an innovative technique to squeeze extra information out of the data.

Magnetic reconnection is one of the most important processes in the space — filled with charged particles known as plasma — around Earth. This fundamental process dissipates magnetic energy and propels charged particles, both of which contribute to a dynamic space weather system that scientists want to better understand, and even someday predict, as we do terrestrial weather. Reconnection occurs when crossed magnetic field lines snap, explosively flinging away nearby particles at high speeds. The new discovery found reconnection where it has never been seen before — in turbulent plasma.

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Exploring Turbulent Space Around Earth

NASA Video

Опубликовано: 9 мая 2018 г.

Earth is surrounded by a protective magnetic environment — the magnetosphere — shown here in blue, which deflects a supersonic stream of charged particles from the Sun, known as the solar wind. As the particles flow around Earth's magnetosphere, it forms a highly turbulent boundary layer called the magnetosheath, shown in yellow. Scientists, like those involved with NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, are studying this turbulent region to help us learn more about our dynamic space environment.

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Explosive Magnetic Reconnection in Turbulent Plasma

NASA Video

Опубликовано: 9 мая 2018 г.

In a turbulent magnetic environment, magnetic field lines become scrambled. As the field lines cross, intense electric currents (shown here as bright regions) form and eventually trigger magnetic reconnection (indicated by a flash), which is an explosive event that releases magnetic energy accumulated in the current layers and ejects high-speed bi-directional jets of electrons. NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission witnessed this process in action as it flew through the electron jets the turbulent boundary just at the edge of Earth's magnetic environment.

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