Thursday, February 11, 2010

new solar observatory away

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) atop an Atlas V launched from Florida today.

This was the second launch attempt. Yesterday's launch was scrubbed due to weather violations.

The RASC Toronto Centre expedition to the Cape tried for the original launch date yesterday. Sadly, their trip had ended so they missed today's launch--live.

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They used an interesting simulator to show what's going on with the craft and payload.

It gives a good sense of what is going on, along with the narration.

Cool.

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