Originally planned for launch on Tuesday, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory was delayed once again on Wednesday due to high winds. The new planned launch for the device from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida is Thursday, Feb. 11; the launch window is between 10:23 a.m. and 11:23 a.m. EST. The SDO will undertake a five-year mission to investigate in unprecedented detail the energy processes driving the sun’s stormy activity. The 6,555-pound spacecraft will return 1.5 terabytes of data every day — equal to half a million downloaded songs.
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Sun-Gazing Observatory Set for Launch
Posted by: Katherine Noyes February 11, 2010 05:00 AMOriginally planned for launch on Tuesday, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory was delayed once again on Wednesday due to high winds. The new planned launch for the device from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida is Thursday, Feb. 11; the launch window is between 10:23 a.m. and 11:23 a.m. EST. The SDO will undertake a five-year mission to investigate in unprecedented detail the energy processes driving the sun’s stormy activity. The 6,555-pound spacecraft will return 1.5 terabytes of data every day — equal to half a million downloaded songs.