Aqua 10 Years After Launch
A little over ten years ago, in the early morning hours of May 4, 2002, crowds of spectators stood anxiously watching as the Delta II rocket carrying NASA's Aqua spacecraft lifted off from its launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 2:55 a.m. The rocket quickly went through a l...
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ftnasantrs:oai:casi.ntrs.nasa.gov:20130013087 2023-05-15T13:33:56+02:00 Aqua 10 Years After Launch Parkinson, Claire L. Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available February 26, 2013 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20130013087 unknown Document ID: 20130013087 http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20130013087 No Copyright CASI Earth Resources and Remote Sensing GSFC-E-DAA-TN8070 The Earth Observer; 24; 6; 4-17 2013 ftnasantrs 2019-07-21T00:37:06Z A little over ten years ago, in the early morning hours of May 4, 2002, crowds of spectators stood anxiously watching as the Delta II rocket carrying NASA's Aqua spacecraft lifted off from its launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 2:55 a.m. The rocket quickly went through a low-lying cloud cover, after which the main portion of the rocket fell to the waters below and the rockets second stage proceeded to carry Aqua south across the Pacific, onward over Antarctica, and north to Africa, where the spacecraft separated from the rocket 59.5 minutes after launch. Then, 12.5 minutes later, the solar array unfurled over Europe, and Aqua was on its way in the first of what by now have become over 50,000 successful orbits of the Earth. Other/Unknown Material Antarc* Antarctica NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Pacific |
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A little over ten years ago, in the early morning hours of May 4, 2002, crowds of spectators stood anxiously watching as the Delta II rocket carrying NASA's Aqua spacecraft lifted off from its launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 2:55 a.m. The rocket quickly went through a low-lying cloud cover, after which the main portion of the rocket fell to the waters below and the rockets second stage proceeded to carry Aqua south across the Pacific, onward over Antarctica, and north to Africa, where the spacecraft separated from the rocket 59.5 minutes after launch. Then, 12.5 minutes later, the solar array unfurled over Europe, and Aqua was on its way in the first of what by now have become over 50,000 successful orbits of the Earth. |
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