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good afternoon everyone this is the

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pre-launch news conference for the

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landsat data continuity mission to be

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launched

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on a united launch alliance atlas 5

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and here to talk about the spacecraft

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the mission

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and the launch coming up

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is david jarrett the ldcm program

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omar baez the nasa launch director from

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vernon thorpe the program manager for

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nasa missions from the united launch

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ken schwer the ldcm project manager from

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and first lieutenant jennifer kelly the

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launch weather officer from the 30th

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operation support squadron at vandenberg

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air force base

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and we'll begin with opening remarks

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from david jarrett

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dave thanks george it's a great day to

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be here at the vandenberg air force base

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the entire ldcm team is really excited

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to be launching our new observatory in

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just a few days a lot of people from all

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over the country have done an awesome

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job in getting our spacecraft ready to

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on behalf of nasa's earth science

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division i would like to thank you all

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for joining us here today to share in

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that excitement

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the landsat data continuity mission

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is a collaboration between nasa and the

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u.s geological survey

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this partnership has been going strong

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now for over 40 years

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and ldcm is the next in a long line of

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landsat satellites as shown in this

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timeline please show the timeline

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it's begun in 1972 with the launch of

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landsat 1 the landsat program has been

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providing under uninterrupted

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observations ever since

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with its evolutionary new instruments

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ldcm will be the best landsat spacecraft

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yet in terms of improved capabilities

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and the amount of data returned compared

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with previous landsat missions

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after launch ldcm will join 16 other

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nasa research satellites in our earth

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ldcm together with terra aqua

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monitoring understanding and managing

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the land resources needed to sustain

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and forests and will help us study and

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understand the effects of both natural

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as well as the impact of a population of

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seven billion people on these critical

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the nasa earth science program aims to

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understand the earth as a complex

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ldcm uniquely provides accurate

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measurements of the land and coastal

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that are not provided by other nasa

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when coupled with the broad array

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of other nasa satellite measurements of

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change processes are occurring and what

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for life and land on land and in coastal

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in maintaining our ability to monitor

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for earth surface observations because

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of the stringent calibrations that we

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the lane will continue the landsat

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legacy well into the future

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go ldcm

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thank you dave and now to omar baez the

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nasa launch director from kennedy for

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launch coming up omar thank you george

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good afternoon everyone and thank you

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for attending today's brief

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i am again fortunate to be representing

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uh scores of men and women from nasa's

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launch services program

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the goddard space flight center

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and our partners united launch alliance

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and orbital science corporation these

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folks have been dedicated to analyzing

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we're utilizing the atlas 5.

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it's a two-stage mission

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could we roll the short video we have on

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and this is the erection sequence

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nasa launch readiness review

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back to you george all right thank you

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we are privileged and happy to be here

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today just three days from the launch of

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nearly two years ago during that time

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the ability to successfully execute this

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than two weeks as a testament to our

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dedicated skilled and experienced

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effectiveness of our partnership with

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that partnership has allowed us to work

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disciplined and rigorous process to

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ensure continued mission success one

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the result will be the tdrs-k launched

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orbit and be able to provide important

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services and data that will benefit the

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this will be ula's second launch of

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this will also be our first atlas launch

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they'll be generating about 900 000

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pounds of thrust to get the vehicle off

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the ground and since since this vehicle

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does not have any srbs

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the first major event that you'll see

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during flight

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will happen about four minutes after

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liftoff

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uh

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four minutes in we will have used up all

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the propellants in that booster stage

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and we will

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give the command to shut down the

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booster engine what we call booster

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engine cutoff you'll see that coming up

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here in a moment

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after we shut down that booster engine

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about six seconds later

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we'll give the command to separate from

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the centaur upper state upper stage

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we will then begin preparing the centaur

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engine for the first of several burns

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that first burn will last approximately

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11 minutes

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after it lights we'll jettison the

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payload fairing about

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eight seconds after start of the engine

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and that first 11 minute burn will place

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uh centaur with the ldcm satellite into

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a slightly elliptical orbit

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about a 90 nautical mile by 370 nautical

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mile altitude we'll then have a coast

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phase of 55 minutes to get into position

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for the second burn second burn will be

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a little bit less than two minutes and

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that will raise the orbit to

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approximately a 360

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nautical mile circular orbit

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we will then separate from the

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spacecraft a few minutes later

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and begin the usual series of maneuvers

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to back away from the spacecraft and

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ensure no re-contact or contamination

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and then one thing that's a little bit

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unusual about this mission is we will

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conduct a third burn of centaur

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and that will actually place the centaur

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into an earth escape orbit we always try

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to put the centaur into some sort of a

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disposal orbit so it won't interfere

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with anything in the future

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ldcm incorporates sensing and data

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capture improvements that will benefit

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many nations and we're proud of the role

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that ula will play in helping to

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continue landsat's important legacy of

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earth observation

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ula is proud to serve a critical role in

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delivering government and commercial

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payloads to orbit and we are focused on

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perfect product delivery for this and

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every mission we launched for nasa and

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all of our other customers

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and once again i'd like to say thank you

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to all of our mission partners all the

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people who have helped us get to this

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point

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and the entire ula team looks forward to

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a successful launch on monday back to

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you george thank you vern

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and now to ken schwer the ldcm project

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manager from goddard space flight center

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thank you george

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sixteen thousand seven hundred sixty

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miles an hour

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that's how fast the landsat satellite is

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begun going to be going in three days

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once on station 300 438 miles above our

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homes

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the ldcm satellite will orbit our planet

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every 99 minutes

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ldcm's imagery

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resolution or pixel size is about the

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size of a baseball infield

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and the imaging track on earth is a 115

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mile swath

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which leads to the ldcm satellite

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observing the entire earth every 16 days

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once the ldcm satellite separates from

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the launch vehicle the satellite goes

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through an automated sequence where the

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control system will maneuver the

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satellite for solar array deployment

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the next the satellite communications

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will be configured for ground contact

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this allows the mission operations team

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to verify the state of the health of the

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satellite this all happens in just about

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20 minutes after separating from the

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launch vehicle

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the ldcm spacecraft was built by orbital

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sciences in gilbert arizona where both

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the oli and tears instruments were

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delivered and integrated to the

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spacecraft

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the operational land imager oli was

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built by ball aerospace in boulder

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colorado

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and the thermal infrared sensor tiers

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was built by nasa's goddard space flight

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center in greenbelt maryland the ldcm

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satellite was shipped from phoenix

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arizona

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vandenberg air force base california on

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december 19th

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since then we've been preparing the

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satellite for launch

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here you can see our thermally

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controlled

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transporter sitting inside the astrotech

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processing facility at vandenberg

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lifting the lid pulling out the

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strongback and the spacecraft which is

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bag for contamination purposes

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then we place it on the stand so we can

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do all our post shipment operations and

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make sure everything is fired properly

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one of the very critical aspects when we

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get on orbit right away is to deploy our

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solar ray so this is one last time that

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we do we call release

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first motion and release of the solar

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array you can see it popping out there

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we don't walk it all the way out we just

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want to make sure that that mechanism

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operated we then fold it back in and

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after the spacecraft is fueled and all

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the testing is done

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we actually

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mount it to the payload attach fitting

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which is actually the fitting that will

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install to the atlas v launch vehicle

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here you can see the atlas 5 fairings

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being brought into the clean room

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the two halves will then be prepared

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to encapsulate the satellite

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here you can see this is kind of a

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bittersweet moment this is the last time

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we ever get to see our satellite that

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we've been

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working on for years

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after the encapsulation the team goes

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through the whole process to to prepare

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environmental systems inside purging the

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instruments this is all to make sure

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that our satellite stays clean

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all in preparation to be uh transported

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out to the pad

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you can see here it happened the wee

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the nasa goddard space flight center

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role for ldcm is to manage the entire

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mission for nasa nasa's earth science

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division which includes acquiring the

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spacecraft the instruments the launch

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vehicle overall mission systems

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engineering and early orbit operations

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the u.s department of interior through

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the u.s geological survey usgs

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is responsible for the ground system

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mission operations and the data

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processing and archive system

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after launch in about three months of

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nasa checkout usgs takes over

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operational control of the satellite in

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the mission

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at which time ldcm will be renamed

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landsat 8. can you roll the next video

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the ldcm satellite will be controlled

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from the nasa goddard space flight

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center in greenbelt maryland

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the satellite

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will send down about 400 images a day to

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ground stations in sioux falls south

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dakota

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fairbanks alaska and svalbard norway

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back in 2008 usgs made the landsat data

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records

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free to the public

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which resulted in yearly downloads going

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from thousands to millions

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this has spawned an explosion in the

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necessary and exciting local to global

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research

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landsat will send down more than 700

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additional images

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to go into usgs's three and a half

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million image archive

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just this past july the landsat program

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celebrated its 40th anniversary of

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continuous coverage

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my team is so excited to play a vital

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role in continuing this

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data record and nasa and usgs

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partnership

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ldcm will continue to describe

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the human impact on earth

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and the impact of earth on humanity

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which is vital for accommodating 7

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billion people on our planet

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i encourage all of you to stay tuned

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for the ldcm science briefing

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immediately following this press

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conference

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over the past year my ldcm team

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has rose to several challenges and

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stayed within cost schedule and

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technical excellence

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i am so proud of my team

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and ldcm is ready for launch

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back to you george thank you ken

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and now we'll look at monday's weather

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forecast

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with first lieutenant jennifer kelly

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launch weather officer from the 30th

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operation support squadron here at

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vandenberg lieutenant kelly

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thank you sir good afternoon

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february is the most atmospherically

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dynamic month for the central california

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coast marked by an alternating pattern

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of high and low pressure systems moving

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through the area currently we have a low

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pressure sister system moving through

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vandenberg air force base producing rain

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strong winds and possible lightning

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strikes the clouds associated with this

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low pressure system will depart tomorrow

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as high pressure builds in behind it

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this will provide improving conditions

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clearing side skies and an end to

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precipitation

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looking at the satellite image

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you can see from our ir image you can

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see the cloud cover associated with that

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low system over southern california

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upstream or to the northwest you can see

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the clearing associated with that high

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pressure system

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by monday high pressure will be well

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established with only thin cirrus clouds

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remaining overhead

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a thermal trough will provide a slight

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offshore flow early in the morning

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preventing the development of the marine

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layer

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models are agreeing that weather

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conditions for the launch will be

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favorable

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the forecast for the launch window of

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102 to 1050 local on february 11th will

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be serious clouds of 1 8 coverage from

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20 000 to 22 000 feet unlimited

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visibility winds out of the east at 8 to

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12 knots

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and temperatures in the mid to low 50s

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providing an overall probability of

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violation at t 0 for zero percent

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and finally the 24 hour scrub forecast

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for february 12 will see little change

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to conditions as the high pressure

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remains the dominant feature

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serious clouds of 1 8 coverage from 20

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to 22 000 feet unlimited visibility

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winds remain out of the east at 8 to 12

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knots and temperatures in the low 50s

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providing an overall probability of

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violation at t 0 of 0 percent thank you

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george thank you lieutenant kelly

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and we're ready now to take questions

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we'll take questions here in the room

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and then we'll also take questions on

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twitter twitter hashtag asknasa but

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let's begin here in the room please uh

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give your name an affiliation when the

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microphone comes to you and we'll start

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here with justin ray

570
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thanks uh justin wright with

571
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spaceflightnow.com for omar i wonder if

572
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you could talk a little bit about the

573
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two engineering

574
00:23:42,149 --> 00:23:40,320
topics that remain open and if those are

575
00:23:43,269 --> 00:23:42,159
potential showstoppers for launching on

576
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monday

577
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i don't believe that they're show

578
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stoppers one of them

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deals with

580
00:23:52,950 --> 00:23:49,600
some bench testing that occurred on the

581
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fdinu a test or a unit that was being

582
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tested

583
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uh the other item is a revisit of the

584
00:24:02,310 --> 00:24:01,440
rl10 anomaly that occurred on the gps

585
00:24:05,110 --> 00:24:02,320
mission

586
00:24:06,950 --> 00:24:05,120
last fall and it's an update on the

587
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ongoing investigation that's going on

588
00:24:14,789 --> 00:24:12,789
hi nora wallace the santa barbara news

589
00:24:16,789 --> 00:24:14,799
press can someone address the overall

590
00:24:19,909 --> 00:24:16,799
cost of the mission

591
00:24:22,269 --> 00:24:19,919
uh yes the overall overall cost for uh

592
00:24:24,710 --> 00:24:22,279
nasa's contribution to the mission is

593
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855 million dollars

594
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that was from the beginning of uh

595
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the formulation of the mission all the

596
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way through hand over to usgs

597
00:24:37,990 --> 00:24:35,200
janine scully santa maria times the long

598
00:24:40,149 --> 00:24:38,000
poke record so when is the next meet up

599
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in terms of when you're going to

600
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reconvene and assess if you can

601
00:24:46,710 --> 00:24:44,559
keep moving forward is it tonight i

602
00:24:48,470 --> 00:24:46,720
think i got a little lost okay so so

603
00:24:50,870 --> 00:24:48,480
what we're trying to do is do our final

604
00:24:53,029 --> 00:24:50,880
ordnance connects and we can't do that

605
00:24:53,990 --> 00:24:53,039
while we're in a lightning

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watch

607
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so if we get that release

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by around four o'clock this afternoon

609
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we've got about three hours of work we

610
00:25:06,149 --> 00:25:03,600
have to complete

611
00:25:08,630 --> 00:25:06,159
any later in that and our team that

612
00:25:10,470 --> 00:25:08,640
specializes in doing that times out and

613
00:25:12,630 --> 00:25:10,480
would we'd have to

614
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reschedule that event for tomorrow

615
00:25:16,870 --> 00:25:15,360
hoping that the weather cleans up we do

616
00:25:19,590 --> 00:25:16,880
have a uh

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lr reconvene tomorrow at 9 00 a.m

618
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and that will assess the the items that

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00:25:25,190 --> 00:25:24,159
i mentioned

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and

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it will also um

622
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if if in case we don't get the ordinance

623
00:25:34,789 --> 00:25:32,320
connected tonight we might have to

624
00:25:38,230 --> 00:25:34,799
reassess whether monday is a viable date

625
00:25:42,390 --> 00:25:39,830
any further questions here in the room

626
00:25:43,909 --> 00:25:42,400
we have one down from nora again

627
00:25:44,789 --> 00:25:43,919
uh justin again i was wondering if you

628
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could talk a little bit about the

629
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weekend schedule what other work would

630
00:25:49,909 --> 00:25:47,919
be going on at the pad and if you had to

631
00:25:51,750 --> 00:25:49,919
delay ordinance into the weekend what

632
00:25:54,310 --> 00:25:51,760
does that mean to finish up our our

633
00:25:57,029 --> 00:25:54,320
final closeouts justin uh

634
00:25:59,269 --> 00:25:57,039
you know lift all the deck plates and so

635
00:26:01,350 --> 00:25:59,279
forth reposition all the stuff that

636
00:26:03,750 --> 00:26:01,360
might be affected by blast and and that

637
00:26:06,710 --> 00:26:03,760
takes uh

638
00:26:10,390 --> 00:26:06,720
about a shift's work um during daylight

639
00:26:15,190 --> 00:26:12,789
any additional questions

640
00:26:16,390 --> 00:26:15,200
maybe for ken um we've seen the

641
00:26:18,789 --> 00:26:16,400
information about the number of

642
00:26:21,350 --> 00:26:18,799
downloads uh by the public spiking in

643
00:26:23,590 --> 00:26:21,360
the last few years on this imagery can

644
00:26:25,830 --> 00:26:23,600
you explain what your views are on the

645
00:26:27,590 --> 00:26:25,840
the fascination with this information by

646
00:26:29,269 --> 00:26:27,600
the public we understand why you're

647
00:26:30,789 --> 00:26:29,279
interested in why the science guys are

648
00:26:32,230 --> 00:26:30,799
interested but

649
00:26:33,830 --> 00:26:32,240
well that's probably a good two-part

650
00:26:35,590 --> 00:26:33,840
question i'll address that but for the

651
00:26:37,029 --> 00:26:35,600
science briefing uh

652
00:26:39,430 --> 00:26:37,039
they can go in a lot to the science

653
00:26:42,230 --> 00:26:39,440
aspect from the engineering side if you

654
00:26:45,590 --> 00:26:42,240
go to the usgs website and just start

655
00:26:47,590 --> 00:26:45,600
exploring all the different images

656
00:26:50,149 --> 00:26:47,600
throughout the world you know whether

657
00:26:53,750 --> 00:26:50,159
it's associated with cities growing or

658
00:26:55,430 --> 00:26:53,760
are changes in in water concentration

659
00:26:57,590 --> 00:26:55,440
and what the scientists and everyone do

660
00:26:59,510 --> 00:26:57,600
with that to help manage and let people

661
00:27:01,350 --> 00:26:59,520
know it's just i mean

662
00:27:03,590 --> 00:27:01,360
i get on that website and look at these

663
00:27:07,350 --> 00:27:03,600
images and it's just fascinating to

664
00:27:10,070 --> 00:27:07,360
think that all of this now is free to

665
00:27:11,830 --> 00:27:10,080
everyone so we now we have so many

666
00:27:14,070 --> 00:27:11,840
people throughout the world doing

667
00:27:15,830 --> 00:27:14,080
research and investigations where it

668
00:27:17,990 --> 00:27:15,840
used to cost a good chunk of money just

669
00:27:19,909 --> 00:27:18,000
to get the data so now the researchers

670
00:27:21,350 --> 00:27:19,919
can spend all of that on their systems

671
00:27:23,750 --> 00:27:21,360
and everything to do that instead of

672
00:27:25,510 --> 00:27:23,760
acquiring the data i mean it's just

673
00:27:27,350 --> 00:27:25,520
it's fascinating and to think that

674
00:27:29,590 --> 00:27:27,360
there's a 40-year data record and we get

675
00:27:32,630 --> 00:27:29,600
to continue that it's what really really

676
00:27:34,310 --> 00:27:32,640
makes landsat to me such a special

677
00:27:37,990 --> 00:27:34,320
mission out of all the missions i've

678
00:27:43,350 --> 00:27:39,909
what is the future for landsat is there

679
00:27:46,230 --> 00:27:43,360
a landsat 9 on the books or

680
00:27:48,630 --> 00:27:46,240
right now nasa and the usgs are in

681
00:27:51,190 --> 00:27:48,640
discussions with the administration as

682
00:27:53,510 --> 00:27:51,200
well as our other stakeholders trying to

683
00:27:57,669 --> 00:27:53,520
determine exactly uh what path we're

684
00:28:01,190 --> 00:27:59,510
all right i think we have some twitter

685
00:28:08,630 --> 00:28:01,200
questions

686
00:28:12,630 --> 00:28:10,630
okay thank you george uh first question

687
00:28:15,430 --> 00:28:12,640
is at launch is the initial what is the

688
00:28:17,590 --> 00:28:15,440
initial heading of the ldcm satellite is

689
00:28:19,750 --> 00:28:17,600
it going towards the north or the south

690
00:28:21,430 --> 00:28:19,760
as it leaves vandenberg

691
00:28:23,269 --> 00:28:21,440
sure i can take

692
00:28:25,350 --> 00:28:23,279
do you want to go sure sure when we

693
00:28:27,190 --> 00:28:25,360
first launch we are going to be heading

694
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just west of south i think on the

695
00:28:33,510 --> 00:28:29,600
compass we'll be heading about 186

696
00:28:35,430 --> 00:28:33,520
degrees so this is a southern launch

697
00:28:38,710 --> 00:28:35,440
okay thank you the next question is will

698
00:28:41,510 --> 00:28:38,720
there be an underfly of ldcm with

699
00:28:42,950 --> 00:28:41,520
landsat 7 to cross calibrate the data

700
00:28:45,750 --> 00:28:42,960
between the missions

701
00:28:47,669 --> 00:28:45,760
yes we have that planned in our first 90

702
00:28:49,830 --> 00:28:47,679
days at checkout of course the first

703
00:28:51,350 --> 00:28:49,840
week we check out the spacecrafts

704
00:28:53,669 --> 00:28:51,360
the following couple weeks we check out

705
00:28:56,230 --> 00:28:53,679
the instruments we get them prepared for

706
00:28:58,310 --> 00:28:56,240
that and about day 38 is our first

707
00:29:01,430 --> 00:28:58,320
opportunity where we have the underfly

708
00:29:03,269 --> 00:29:01,440
with landsat 7 which is you know my

709
00:29:05,350 --> 00:29:03,279
project scientist says it is the best

710
00:29:07,510 --> 00:29:05,360
way to validate these sensors from

711
00:29:10,389 --> 00:29:07,520
previous missions so that isn't our plan

712
00:29:13,590 --> 00:29:12,230
all right that's all the questions we

713
00:29:16,470 --> 00:29:13,600
have on twitter

714
00:29:18,070 --> 00:29:16,480
follow up nora

715
00:29:20,070 --> 00:29:18,080
kind of a two-part question

716
00:29:23,430 --> 00:29:20,080
uh if the discussions are ongoing about

717
00:29:25,590 --> 00:29:23,440
landsat 9 what's your argument uh to the

718
00:29:26,950 --> 00:29:25,600
the people above you in terms of keeping

719
00:29:29,830 --> 00:29:26,960
the program

720
00:29:32,870 --> 00:29:29,840
um because of the the legacy of the data

721
00:29:34,230 --> 00:29:32,880
record and the the enormous use of it

722
00:29:36,470 --> 00:29:34,240
lately

723
00:29:38,310 --> 00:29:36,480
since the data went free

724
00:29:40,389 --> 00:29:38,320
uh worldwide we've had a lot more

725
00:29:42,230 --> 00:29:40,399
interest in using that data

726
00:29:44,950 --> 00:29:42,240
and it's very important to keep this

727
00:29:46,310 --> 00:29:44,960
this record going so that

728
00:29:48,389 --> 00:29:46,320
both

729
00:29:50,149 --> 00:29:48,399
the scientists can study land changes

730
00:29:51,750 --> 00:29:50,159
over time but there's also a lot of

731
00:29:53,830 --> 00:29:51,760
other applications

732
00:29:56,230 --> 00:29:53,840
being used and they'll go into those

733
00:29:58,710 --> 00:29:56,240
later this afternoon

734
00:30:00,950 --> 00:29:58,720
but we use it for forest management and

735
00:30:02,710 --> 00:30:00,960
water management and things like that

736
00:30:05,350 --> 00:30:02,720
not only in this country but around the

737
00:30:09,510 --> 00:30:06,950
so one more sorry

738
00:30:11,510 --> 00:30:09,520
so i i forgot who spoke about the

739
00:30:13,029 --> 00:30:11,520
the pixel imagery being about the size

740
00:30:14,310 --> 00:30:13,039
of a baseball field how does that

741
00:30:17,110 --> 00:30:14,320
compare to

742
00:30:20,070 --> 00:30:17,120
uh previous previous landsat missions in

743
00:30:22,950 --> 00:30:20,080
terms of advancement

744
00:30:24,630 --> 00:30:22,960
um i believe that's it's the same

745
00:30:25,350 --> 00:30:24,640
we continue that's the same and that is

746
00:30:27,190 --> 00:30:25,360
the

747
00:30:29,830 --> 00:30:27,200
appropriate swath that we want to be

748
00:30:31,990 --> 00:30:29,840
able to view basically lands change

749
00:30:35,590 --> 00:30:32,000
human impacts of the earth and allows us

750
00:30:38,950 --> 00:30:37,350
steve we've got some additional more

751
00:30:43,830 --> 00:30:38,960
questions that come in uh how will the

752
00:30:45,909 --> 00:30:43,840
ldcm orbit compared to that of landsat 7

753
00:30:47,510 --> 00:30:45,919
we're actually we're in the same orbits

754
00:30:50,389 --> 00:30:47,520
and we're actually going to follow eight

755
00:30:52,789 --> 00:30:50,399
days behind landsat 7.

756
00:30:54,470 --> 00:30:52,799
and that's to continue the data record

757
00:30:56,310 --> 00:30:54,480
and also have

758
00:30:58,549 --> 00:30:56,320
would be every eight days we have

759
00:31:00,710 --> 00:30:58,559
landsat imagery on the surface of the

760
00:31:02,470 --> 00:31:00,720
entire earth

761
00:31:05,430 --> 00:31:02,480
and the other question follow on from

762
00:31:09,909 --> 00:31:05,440
this person is will landsat 7 be

763
00:31:13,750 --> 00:31:12,070
well landsat 7 will be decommissioned

764
00:31:16,310 --> 00:31:13,760
when it's through

765
00:31:18,389 --> 00:31:16,320
but it's doing a great job

766
00:31:21,110 --> 00:31:18,399
landsat 5 has just finished what you're

767
00:31:22,950 --> 00:31:21,120
probably aware of 28 years on orbit

768
00:31:24,230 --> 00:31:22,960
which is just an incredible i think it

769
00:31:25,430 --> 00:31:24,240
may have set

770
00:31:26,950 --> 00:31:25,440
might be in the guinness book of world

771
00:31:28,549 --> 00:31:26,960
records is that right

772
00:31:30,070 --> 00:31:28,559
are we trying to

773
00:31:32,230 --> 00:31:30,080
but anyway uh

774
00:31:36,549 --> 00:31:32,240
yeah that we're we're bringing that that

775
00:31:36,559 --> 00:31:39,909
any additional questions

776
00:31:43,509 --> 00:31:41,909
all right in that event our next

777
00:31:45,669 --> 00:31:43,519
briefing which is going to be following