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ten percent uh concern about ground

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a 10 percent violation but mick those

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good shape and environments on all

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pad but this is the day it moved out it

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standing just alongside the path there

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as the atlas 5 190 foot tall rocket went

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evening and in fact that's actually been

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who use the metric system but when that

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rollout show yesterday it was great to

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unique configuration in just a bit but

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everything is looking good we will

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off nominal readings from a ground

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support sensor northrop grumman and nasa

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to tune in in just a few days we are

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understand more about the incredible

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happening between esa and nasa nasa's

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laura aguiar is live with members of

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teams to find out more thank you joshua

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directorate and professor gunter

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hassinger who's with the european space

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agency his director of science so

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suite of missions out there in the solar

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collaboration and when we think about

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solar orbiter is going to study the sun

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at the asoc joshua let us know what's

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to capture debut images of its poles or

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a cutting edge rover and helicopter to

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further explore mars

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and that's just the year 2020. let's

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take a closer look at this year's flight

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lots of great signs ahead for lsp this

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year kicking off tonight with this

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launch darling make over to you for a

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launch countdown update yeah that's

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right josh well we just entered a few

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moments ago the planned

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four-minute hold this is a 15-minute

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period of time

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where

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they hold up everything and and make

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some evaluations at this point in time

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that's correct the team will use this 15

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minutes to

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take a last look at all their systems

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make sure everything's good make sure

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everything's ready to go verify they've

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all their red line limits and

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operational limits and that they're

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ready to proceed with the count so this

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is their last time to do that while

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we're in this hold and so far we're not

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working any issues and and things are

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going well and uh chief engineer for

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nasa's launch services program dave

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sober pulled his team and they're ready

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to enter the terminal count after

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getting out of this hold so things are

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looking good a very smooth count up

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until this point and as you look at the

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camera views that we're showing you you

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can see that condensation coming off the

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rocket as the wind blows by in fact the

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middle portion of the rocket is white it

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was tan before just where it lines up

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with the ul and a that is all ice

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covering that portion of the rocket

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which has been chilled down to minus 300

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degrees fahrenheit minus 184 degrees

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celsius roughly that's right mick's got

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his little professor calculator here and

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he's doing on-the-fly metric

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calculations appreciate that hey you

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know this uh this is an interesting

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rocket because it is configured in a

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very unique way tell us a little bit

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more about that yeah the atlas 5 411

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vehicle we're flying this evening is a

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unique configuration and the fact that

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it has one

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solid rocket booster on the vehicle

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that's a unique configuration for ula

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and this vehicle this configuration has

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flown uh five times including nasa's

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osiris-rex mission so tonight will be

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the

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sixth mission

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our first stage or our booster

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is powered by

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rd-180 engine

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this engine burns rp1 and liquid oxygen

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as it's fueled or rp1 is a highly

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purified

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kerosene so that

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helps deliver the thrust we need and

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delivering that thrust tonight above

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about 860 000 pounds or

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1.2 million pounds with the solid rocket

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booster that's 5.2 million newtons just

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in case you're wondering okay

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but we would do move on up the stage to

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the second stage which is centaur using

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an rl10a engine this will be the last

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single rl10a flown on this configuration

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from here on out they'll use two engines

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to fly on an atlas vehicle so we're very

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proud of that this evening the rl10

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engine is a cryogenic engine so it uses

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liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen as its

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fuel in the upper stage producing about

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22 000 pounds of thrust or 99.2

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kilonewtons i was hoping you had that

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electric conversion well unique unique

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configuration that we're happy to fly

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tonight all right very good thank you

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mick and you know to this point the

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count has gone very smooth we've heard

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nothing but good reports so we'll turn

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it back over to joshua in the studio and

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we'll continue the monitor account here

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joshua thank you gentlemen appreciate

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that look forward to hearing more from

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you soon hopefully still lots of good

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news ahead let's take a look at what to

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expect going forward obviously that

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rocket is poised on the pad uh but

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here's what's going to happen after

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and

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liftoff of the united launch alliance

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atlas v rocket

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the atlas v rd 180 main engine and one

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solid rocket booster ignite to generate

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more than 5.3 million newtons of thrust

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to lift the rocket on its way towards a

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hyperbolic escape trajectory

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shortly after liftoff atlas begins a

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pitchover to attain the proper flight

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path while minimizing the dynamic

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pressure the vehicle experiences during

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flight

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the atlas v reaches mach 1 the speed of

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sound at 58 seconds

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the single srb is jettisoned at 2

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minutes 20 seconds

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at 4 minutes 3 seconds the propellant

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levels deplete and the booster engine

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shuts down

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six seconds later the atlas centaur

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separation system activates to release

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the booster stage the vehicle now weighs

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less than 14 percent of what it did at

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liftoff

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ten seconds later the first burn of the

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centaur main engine begins this burn

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guides the centaur into a near circular

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parking orbit

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approaching payload fairing jettison the

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centaur is burning propellant at a rate

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of 23 kilograms per second traveling at

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more than seventeen thousand seven

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hundred kilometers per hour and located

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nearly 134 kilometers in altitude and

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470 kilometers downrange

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at four minutes 27 seconds the payload

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fairing is jettisoned the vehicle now

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weighs less than seven percent of what

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it did at liftoff four and a half

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minutes earlier

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twelve minutes fourteen seconds into

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flight cutoff of the centaur main engine

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or miko one occurs the mission now

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enters a coast phase in preparation for

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the second burn

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because this targeted earth escape

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trajectory varies from day to day the

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coast and the second burn will vary to

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accommodate this

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the centaur main engine is restarted at

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42 minutes 58 seconds for the second and

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final engine burn

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nearly seven minutes later final cut off

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of the centaur main engine occurs

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at 52 minutes 40 seconds centaur

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releases solar orbiter for the european

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space agency and nasa to begin its

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nearly two year journey to the sun

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after using gravity assist maneuvers at

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earth and venus solar orbiter will help

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us understand how our star creates and

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controls the heliosphere a giant bubble

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of charged particles blown by the solar

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wind that permeates the whole solar

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system and influences the planets within

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for those of you just joining us welcome

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to team coverage of the launch of the

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solar orbiter mission destined for

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unprecedented views of the poles of our

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star the sun

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we're now just about 12 and a half

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minutes away from launch here are a few

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things that you need to know about this

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groundbreaking mission

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the atlas v rocket for this mission is

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in a 4-1-1 configuration

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sending solar orbiter to a high latitude

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orbit

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enabling the first ever images of the

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sun's poles

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this single launch will deliver 10

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state-of-the-art instruments to study

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our star gravity assist flybys of both

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venus and earth will enable the highly

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elliptical orbit

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after liftoff it will take just under 2

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years to reach its operational orbit for

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we do have a two-hour launch window

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tonight but launch is still on track for

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liftoff at 1103 pm eastern time from

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space launch complex 41 at the cape

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canaveral air force station there you

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see on screen solar orbiter will take

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off on a united launch alliance atlas v

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rocket again they're poised and nearly

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fueled ready for flight

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this is an international collaborative

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mission between the european space

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agency and nasa the spacecraft has been

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developed by airbus defense and space

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is engineering and test center in the

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netherlands is managing the development

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and the european space operation center

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in germany will operate solar orbiter

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after launch

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solar orbiter's flight will take it to

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roughly 26 million miles from the sun or

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about 42 million kilometers that's just

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over one quarter of the distance from

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the sun to the earth

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and we'll experience sunlight 13 times

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more intense than we feel here on earth

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and to survive it is equipped with a

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heat shield capable of withstanding

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temperatures over 900 degrees fahrenheit

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or about 500 degrees celsius

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the signs to be conducted will range

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from analyzing solar winds and solar

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magnetic fields to remote sensing and

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high resolution imaging of the sun's

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atmosphere the corona and even solar

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one phenomenon to be explored is that

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the sun goes through an 11-year cycle

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that evolve involves emerging and

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vanishing sunspots as well as a flipping

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of its entire magnetic field

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why does all of this happen well we're

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hoping solar orbiter will shed some

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light on that

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the mission intends to answer some

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fundamental cause and effect questions

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like how do how do flares and coronal

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mass ejections impact our solar system

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and how do the energetic particles

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originate that lead to extreme space

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weather

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the answers to these questions can not

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only have a direct impact on our daily

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life and electronics you rely on but

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also impact future exploration as we

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pioneer to the moon mars and beyond

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let's head back now over to daryl and

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mick to take us through the rest of the

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count gentlemen count us down thank you

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very much joshua we look forward to

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getting on with the count in just a few

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minutes we are of course in a hold at

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this very moment t minus four minutes

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and holding but we've got a little bit

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of business to do as we go through here

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so far nothing to report in terms of the

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count itself and the teams everything

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working pretty smooth to this point mick

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yeah everything is good uh ula launch

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conductor scott barney is uh giving his

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briefing right now to his team of what's

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going to happen as they get ready to

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pick up the uh

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poll at t minus four and counting but uh

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while we see the teams here in all

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different places daryl we have them all

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over the world what we see on the screen

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here is the team in the mission director

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center here at ae

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which has our esa folks up front

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and then just across the way just a few

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miles away is the atlas space flight

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operation center that is where the ula

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launch team is uh going through their

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count and then of course uh in denver uh

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we have a team out there as well

554
00:20:38,950 --> 00:20:35,120
the denver operations support center in

555
00:20:40,870 --> 00:20:38,960
denver colorado where ula is based in

556
00:20:42,549 --> 00:20:40,880
addition to that we have a european

557
00:20:44,950 --> 00:20:42,559
space operation

558
00:20:47,510 --> 00:20:44,960
germany absolutely we have issa teams

559
00:20:48,390 --> 00:20:47,520
supporting as you heard earlier from

560
00:20:49,990 --> 00:20:48,400
germany

561
00:20:51,830 --> 00:20:50,000
where they will operate and control the

562
00:20:52,950 --> 00:20:51,840
spacecraft after it separates this

563
00:20:55,029 --> 00:20:52,960
evening so

564
00:20:56,630 --> 00:20:55,039
big collaboration of teams that have put

565
00:20:58,310 --> 00:20:56,640
this mission together and get ready for

566
00:20:59,990 --> 00:20:58,320
launch this evening and we've had some

567
00:21:02,230 --> 00:21:00,000
fun talking about the conversions

568
00:21:04,710 --> 00:21:02,240
between standard and metric but we were

569
00:21:07,350 --> 00:21:04,720
talking earlier mick um there's actually

570
00:21:10,070 --> 00:21:07,360
that played a role in working with this

571
00:21:12,070 --> 00:21:10,080
uh international collaboration because

572
00:21:14,630 --> 00:21:12,080
much of what our teams here in america

573
00:21:17,190 --> 00:21:14,640
do is on standard and overseas they're

574
00:21:19,029 --> 00:21:17,200
on metrics so there was a bit of a you

575
00:21:20,630 --> 00:21:19,039
know conversion that had to go between

576
00:21:22,230 --> 00:21:20,640
yeah absolutely it's been really fun

577
00:21:24,149 --> 00:21:22,240
working with our international partners

578
00:21:26,549 --> 00:21:24,159
on this mission and there have been some

579
00:21:29,190 --> 00:21:26,559
challenges uh with the with the unit

580
00:21:31,270 --> 00:21:29,200
conversions and some communications but

581
00:21:33,590 --> 00:21:31,280
that has been key is communication

582
00:21:35,750 --> 00:21:33,600
between the teams all of us

583
00:21:37,830 --> 00:21:35,760
has been done very well and

584
00:21:40,149 --> 00:21:37,840
as tim dunn put it our launch manager

585
00:21:42,070 --> 00:21:40,159
from nasa at our readiness review last

586
00:21:43,430 --> 00:21:42,080
week we all speak the universal language

587
00:21:45,430 --> 00:21:43,440
of mission success and that's what's

588
00:21:46,870 --> 00:21:45,440
gotten us here uh this evening so

589
00:21:49,350 --> 00:21:46,880
working with our industrial partners has

590
00:21:50,310 --> 00:21:49,360
been fun we're very excited to see seoul

591
00:21:52,310 --> 00:21:50,320
orbiter

592
00:21:53,270 --> 00:21:52,320
get off the earth tonight and head on

593
00:21:55,430 --> 00:21:53,280
its way

594
00:21:57,669 --> 00:21:55,440
to the sun to start its science and it's

595
00:21:59,590 --> 00:21:57,679
going to do some big science once once

596
00:22:01,669 --> 00:21:59,600
it's there and in orbit for now we are

597
00:22:02,870 --> 00:22:01,679
looking at a shot of the rocket on the

598
00:22:05,029 --> 00:22:02,880
ground as

599
00:22:08,710 --> 00:22:05,039
the water vapor condenses around the

600
00:22:10,950 --> 00:22:08,720
super cooled liquid oxygen in just a few

601
00:22:14,230 --> 00:22:10,960
seconds we are going to get

602
00:22:17,029 --> 00:22:14,240
a status poll from launch director scott

603
00:22:20,549 --> 00:22:17,039
barney of ula and he's going to give

604
00:22:23,190 --> 00:22:20,559
that and a final check before we begin

605
00:22:26,549 --> 00:22:23,200
to resume the count let's listen in now

606
00:22:28,789 --> 00:22:26,559
as scott conducts that poll over at

607
00:22:30,549 --> 00:22:28,799
united launch alliance

608
00:22:33,270 --> 00:22:30,559
status check to proceed with terminal

609
00:22:37,430 --> 00:22:33,280
count atlas systems propulsion go

610
00:22:39,029 --> 00:22:37,440
hydraulic go pneumatics go lo2

611
00:22:41,990 --> 00:22:39,039
go water

612
00:22:43,669 --> 00:22:42,000
go centaur systems propulsion

613
00:22:48,630 --> 00:22:43,679
pneumatic

614
00:22:52,789 --> 00:22:48,640
lo2 go lh2 go has gas go electrical

615
00:22:54,789 --> 00:22:52,799
systems airborne go ground go facility

616
00:22:56,870 --> 00:22:54,799
go rffts

617
00:22:58,149 --> 00:22:56,880
go flight control

618
00:22:58,870 --> 00:22:58,159
gcq

619
00:23:17,750 --> 00:22:58,880
go

620
00:23:20,630 --> 00:23:17,760
anomaly

621
00:23:21,909 --> 00:23:20,640
go range coordinator clear to proceed

622
00:23:24,070 --> 00:23:21,919
launch direct

623
00:23:25,830 --> 00:23:24,080
you have permission to launch

624
00:23:30,230 --> 00:23:25,840
proceeding with account

625
00:23:33,830 --> 00:23:32,310
verified

626
00:23:34,950 --> 00:23:33,840
and so we are

627
00:23:41,350 --> 00:23:34,960
on

628
00:23:43,750 --> 00:23:41,360
1103 eastern time there you just got the

629
00:23:45,590 --> 00:23:43,760
confirmed account from scott barney

630
00:23:48,070 --> 00:23:45,600
that's good news oh absolutely i tell

631
00:23:50,470 --> 00:23:48,080
you my heart's beating really good

632
00:23:52,070 --> 00:23:50,480
it's awesome to hear the team give a go

633
00:23:53,590 --> 00:23:52,080
and everything's clear that means

634
00:23:55,669 --> 00:23:53,600
they've been working all their stuff and

635
00:23:59,110 --> 00:23:55,679
everything looks good on the vehicle

636
00:24:01,590 --> 00:23:59,120
targeting an 1103 pm eastern time

637
00:24:04,070 --> 00:24:01,600
liftoff um i can't tell you how excited

638
00:24:05,990 --> 00:24:04,080
i am to hear that poll that's right and

639
00:24:08,789 --> 00:24:06,000
now they're configuring the spacecraft

640
00:24:10,950 --> 00:24:08,799
to go on to internal power off of its

641
00:24:12,390 --> 00:24:10,960
shore power it's land power talk about

642
00:24:13,510 --> 00:24:12,400
that yeah in parallel with the launch

643
00:24:15,269 --> 00:24:13,520
team getting the launch vehicle right

644
00:24:17,909 --> 00:24:15,279
the spacecraft team is preparing the

645
00:24:20,230 --> 00:24:17,919
solar orbiter satellite to get ready and

646
00:24:21,830 --> 00:24:20,240
we just heard over our nets that the

647
00:24:23,590 --> 00:24:21,840
spacecraft is on internal power

648
00:24:25,029 --> 00:24:23,600
configured for launch everything looks

649
00:24:26,950 --> 00:24:25,039
green and go

650
00:24:28,630 --> 00:24:26,960
so we've heard from the spacecraft and

651
00:24:30,149 --> 00:24:28,640
from the launch vehicle that things look

652
00:24:32,149 --> 00:24:30,159
really good tonight

653
00:24:33,990 --> 00:24:32,159
to get solar orbiter off the ground

654
00:24:35,590 --> 00:24:34,000
that's a that's a beautiful thing to

655
00:24:37,830 --> 00:24:35,600
hear on the net that we're moving

656
00:24:40,710 --> 00:24:37,840
forward and working no issues and now

657
00:24:43,990 --> 00:24:40,720
tim duns nasa's launch director

658
00:24:46,630 --> 00:24:44,000
will begin to to look at his team and uh

659
00:24:48,549 --> 00:24:46,640
conduct uh his portion of the business

660
00:24:50,710 --> 00:24:48,559
yes he'll he'll check in with his nasa

661
00:24:53,590 --> 00:24:50,720
chief engineer dave solberger and

662
00:24:56,310 --> 00:24:53,600
lsp chuck duvall and make sure the nasa

663
00:24:58,230 --> 00:24:56,320
team is ready to support and

664
00:24:58,950 --> 00:24:58,240
proceed forward so we'll hear how things

665
00:25:01,350 --> 00:24:58,960
go

666
00:25:03,110 --> 00:25:01,360
it's a beautiful evening outside if you

667
00:25:04,870 --> 00:25:03,120
are in the area and

668
00:25:06,470 --> 00:25:04,880
ready to watch this rocket launch it's

669
00:25:08,789 --> 00:25:06,480
going to be a beauty we've got a full

670
00:25:10,950 --> 00:25:08,799
moon tonight here in florida and

671
00:25:12,149 --> 00:25:10,960
across the area and as well we're going

672
00:25:15,269 --> 00:25:12,159
to see this

673
00:25:17,510 --> 00:25:15,279
beautiful launch um this spot right here

674
00:25:20,710 --> 00:25:17,520
is our banana creek viewing area we can

675
00:25:23,510 --> 00:25:20,720
see um we've got several hundred people

676
00:25:25,430 --> 00:25:23,520
out there in total probably about a

677
00:25:27,190 --> 00:25:25,440
thousand four thousand

678
00:25:29,590 --> 00:25:27,200
across the entirety area let's count it

679
00:25:30,470 --> 00:25:29,600
in to the terminal count three two and

680
00:25:32,470 --> 00:25:30,480
one

681
00:25:34,390 --> 00:25:32,480
and we have begun

682
00:25:37,269 --> 00:25:34,400
our account and resumed it

683
00:25:39,190 --> 00:25:37,279
we are now three minutes and 53 seconds

684
00:25:41,750 --> 00:25:39,200
away from liftoff that's correct and we

685
00:25:43,830 --> 00:25:41,760
did hear uh our nasa launch manager tim

686
00:25:45,430 --> 00:25:43,840
dunn say that the nasa team is go he

687
00:25:46,470 --> 00:25:45,440
reported that out to ula's launch

688
00:25:49,269 --> 00:25:46,480
director

689
00:25:51,110 --> 00:25:49,279
lou mangeri and so that's a good good

690
00:25:52,870 --> 00:25:51,120
call out for us too to hear that the

691
00:25:54,470 --> 00:25:52,880
vehicle is ready to proceed tonight and

692
00:25:56,950 --> 00:25:54,480
as you said it was a beautiful sight of

693
00:25:59,029 --> 00:25:56,960
the atlas out there on the pad and

694
00:26:00,630 --> 00:25:59,039
things are looking really well for 1103

695
00:26:01,990 --> 00:26:00,640
lift off this evening

696
00:26:04,070 --> 00:26:02,000
and this is you mentioned this earlier

697
00:26:05,669 --> 00:26:04,080
about the configuration with that one

698
00:26:07,750 --> 00:26:05,679
solid rocket booster on this side

699
00:26:09,669 --> 00:26:07,760
sometimes people have asked you know how

700
00:26:11,669 --> 00:26:09,679
does that work with having one booster

701
00:26:13,350 --> 00:26:11,679
on the side of the rocket doesn't it

702
00:26:15,430 --> 00:26:13,360
kind of push the rocket over yeah it

703
00:26:17,190 --> 00:26:15,440
does actually uh but i will say we

704
00:26:21,190 --> 00:26:17,200
talked about the first stage booster

705
00:26:23,350 --> 00:26:21,200
engine the rd180 the rd180 has a lot of

706
00:26:26,310 --> 00:26:23,360
control margin left that it can offset

707
00:26:29,590 --> 00:26:26,320
that asymmetrical setup of the one solid

708
00:26:31,909 --> 00:26:29,600
on the 411 vehicle the 411 vehicle is a

709
00:26:33,669 --> 00:26:31,919
unique configuration that will provide a

710
00:26:36,149 --> 00:26:33,679
great ride for solar orbit this evening

711
00:26:38,789 --> 00:26:36,159
as it has done for five other missions

712
00:26:40,789 --> 00:26:38,799
in this configuration so yeah rd180

713
00:26:42,789 --> 00:26:40,799
takes over and works really well to make

714
00:26:45,110 --> 00:26:42,799
sure the vehicle gets off the pad and

715
00:26:47,669 --> 00:26:45,120
heads the space we're supposed to two

716
00:26:49,750 --> 00:26:47,679
minutes and 45 seconds until liftoff

717
00:26:51,750 --> 00:26:49,760
here as we get down to the final minutes

718
00:26:54,549 --> 00:26:51,760
of the count the launch teams and a

719
00:26:56,630 --> 00:26:54,559
flurry of activity right now as they are

720
00:26:58,630 --> 00:26:56,640
listening in and talking to their

721
00:26:59,669 --> 00:26:58,640
various team members before this launch

722
00:27:01,990 --> 00:26:59,679
takes off

723
00:27:04,710 --> 00:27:02,000
it's an exciting moment as we get down

724
00:27:06,870 --> 00:27:04,720
now here to the final few minutes talk

725
00:27:08,710 --> 00:27:06,880
about the teams and the activity that's

726
00:27:10,310 --> 00:27:08,720
going on right now yeah it takes a lot

727
00:27:11,990 --> 00:27:10,320
of uh con

728
00:27:13,750 --> 00:27:12,000
control between the teams make sure

729
00:27:15,350 --> 00:27:13,760
they're all talking together they're

730
00:27:17,110 --> 00:27:15,360
actually preparing their final preps of

731
00:27:18,950 --> 00:27:17,120
getting the tanks to fly pressures

732
00:27:20,789 --> 00:27:18,960
getting all the valves in the right

733
00:27:23,750 --> 00:27:20,799
position making sure avionics is ready

734
00:27:25,350 --> 00:27:23,760
to go and the vehicle is is all green as

735
00:27:27,269 --> 00:27:25,360
it continues to

736
00:27:29,909 --> 00:27:27,279
be topped off and basically putting that

737
00:27:33,190 --> 00:27:29,919
last little bit of fuel into the tanks

738
00:27:35,750 --> 00:27:33,200
for a centaur and booster and uh things

739
00:27:38,630 --> 00:27:35,760
are going well vehicle has to go on

740
00:27:40,789 --> 00:27:38,640
internal power just prior to liftoff and

741
00:27:43,430 --> 00:27:40,799
so the team is continuing to work all of

742
00:27:45,350 --> 00:27:43,440
that uh as they get ready for liftoff at

743
00:27:47,990 --> 00:27:45,360
1103.

744
00:27:51,029 --> 00:27:48,000
very good and the count now going uh

745
00:27:53,909 --> 00:27:51,039
under one minute and 40 seconds

746
00:28:02,389 --> 00:27:53,919
let's listen in as the activity uh

747
00:28:06,630 --> 00:28:04,389
we just heard that fts was armed flight

748
00:28:09,269 --> 00:28:06,640
termination system which uh our friends

749
00:28:11,590 --> 00:28:09,279
at the united states force uh will

750
00:28:13,190 --> 00:28:11,600
follow the launch from receiving

751
00:28:17,830 --> 00:28:13,200
fcs

752
00:28:23,830 --> 00:28:20,149
110

753
00:28:27,190 --> 00:28:25,430
locking the vent valves will bring the

754
00:28:29,430 --> 00:28:27,200
uh booster tank

755
00:28:31,029 --> 00:28:29,440
tanks up to flight pressure getting

756
00:28:32,710 --> 00:28:31,039
everything ready for

757
00:28:34,149 --> 00:28:32,720
launch this evening

758
00:28:36,549 --> 00:28:34,159
we just heard from the range officer

759
00:28:37,990 --> 00:28:36,559
that the range is green and ready to

760
00:28:39,990 --> 00:28:38,000
move forward

761
00:28:41,590 --> 00:28:40,000
the range is green that is a big step

762
00:28:43,430 --> 00:28:41,600
moving forward

763
00:28:45,029 --> 00:28:43,440
everything's clear basically mean there

764
00:28:46,870 --> 00:28:45,039
there is no

765
00:28:48,070 --> 00:28:46,880
nothing to impede launch nothing out

766
00:28:55,269 --> 00:28:48,080
there in the water

767
00:28:59,430 --> 00:28:56,389
t minus

768
00:29:02,950 --> 00:28:59,440
30 seconds as we count down to the

769
00:29:03,990 --> 00:29:02,960
liftoff of an atlas v rocket

770
00:29:07,830 --> 00:29:04,000
25

771
00:29:11,990 --> 00:29:07,840
status check go atlas gopro

772
00:29:15,510 --> 00:29:13,510
you heard the final status check for

773
00:29:18,789 --> 00:29:15,520
booster centaur and spacecraft

774
00:29:22,230 --> 00:29:18,799
everything is go and so here we go

775
00:29:23,269 --> 00:29:22,240
t minus 10 seconds nine eight

776
00:29:24,310 --> 00:29:23,279
seven

777
00:29:25,269 --> 00:29:24,320
six

778
00:29:27,110 --> 00:29:25,279
five

779
00:29:28,070 --> 00:29:27,120
four three

780
00:29:28,950 --> 00:29:28,080
two

781
00:29:30,950 --> 00:29:28,960
one

782
00:29:32,710 --> 00:29:30,960
zero

783
00:29:35,190 --> 00:29:32,720
and liftoff

784
00:29:37,750 --> 00:29:35,200
of our solar orbiting and international

785
00:29:39,350 --> 00:29:37,760
collaboration to give us new images and

786
00:29:52,090 --> 00:29:39,360
a better understanding of our

787
00:29:57,350 --> 00:29:53,990
[Music]

788
00:29:59,190 --> 00:29:57,360
now 25 seconds into flight

789
00:30:00,389 --> 00:29:59,200
chamber pressure on the srv looks good

790
00:30:02,470 --> 00:30:00,399
that's not bringing parameters in the

791
00:30:05,590 --> 00:30:02,480
already also good

792
00:30:07,510 --> 00:30:05,600
good report so far atlas 5.

793
00:30:10,389 --> 00:30:07,520
vehicle is completing the pitch over

794
00:30:15,029 --> 00:30:13,190
now 41 seconds into flight

795
00:30:17,830 --> 00:30:15,039
45 seconds into flight everything is

796
00:30:37,590 --> 00:30:19,750
we heard that the rd-180 engine was

797
00:30:41,750 --> 00:30:39,190
vehicles now passing through max q

798
00:30:45,350 --> 00:30:41,760
maximum dynamic pressure

799
00:30:47,190 --> 00:30:45,360
of maximum mechanical stress on the

800
00:30:49,350 --> 00:30:47,200
rocket because it's reached its highest

801
00:30:54,230 --> 00:30:49,360
velocity and resistance created by the

802
00:31:03,269 --> 00:30:55,590
made it through and they're throttling

803
00:31:07,350 --> 00:31:04,870
and we have burnout on the solid rocket

804
00:31:09,350 --> 00:31:07,360
booster atlas will hold on to the srb

805
00:31:10,549 --> 00:31:09,360
for an additional 47 seconds prior to

806
00:31:11,750 --> 00:31:10,559
jettison

807
00:31:13,909 --> 00:31:11,760
they're going to let that thing go at

808
00:31:16,149 --> 00:31:13,919
two minutes and 19 seconds

809
00:31:18,230 --> 00:31:16,159
45 seconds into flight

810
00:31:19,909 --> 00:31:18,240
rd180 continues to perform well at full

811
00:31:23,269 --> 00:31:19,919
thrust pump speeds and injector

812
00:31:26,470 --> 00:31:25,029
all right stand by now for booster

813
00:31:28,070 --> 00:31:26,480
jettison

814
00:31:29,590 --> 00:31:28,080
and now coming up on two minutes into

815
00:31:35,669 --> 00:31:29,600
flight the atlas v vehicle now weighs

816
00:31:38,789 --> 00:31:36,870
already

817
00:31:44,950 --> 00:31:38,799
down slightly as expected

818
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:49,509
and standing by for srp jettison shortly

819
00:31:54,950 --> 00:31:51,750
now look to your screen indication

820
00:31:56,789 --> 00:31:54,960
of the solid rocket booster

821
00:31:58,870 --> 00:31:56,799
atlas 5 has gone to q alpha limited

822
00:32:01,669 --> 00:31:58,880
closed loop steering vehicle body rates

823
00:32:03,909 --> 00:32:01,679
look good

824
00:32:05,830 --> 00:32:03,919
now the next major milestone is now two

825
00:32:17,669 --> 00:32:05,840
minutes 35 seconds into flight three

826
00:32:21,269 --> 00:32:19,590
and the second stage rcs system press

827
00:32:22,630 --> 00:32:21,279
valve is opened

828
00:32:25,669 --> 00:32:22,640
system now pressurizing the flight

829
00:32:30,310 --> 00:32:29,110
flying it over 5000 miles per hour

830
00:32:31,990 --> 00:32:30,320
now three minutes into flight

831
00:32:33,669 --> 00:32:32,000
approximately one minute remaining until

832
00:32:35,750 --> 00:32:33,679
vico

833
00:32:38,070 --> 00:32:35,760
he's talking about main engine cutoff

834
00:32:39,190 --> 00:32:38,080
one minute rd-180 continues to look good

835
00:32:40,870 --> 00:32:39,200
at

836
00:32:44,310 --> 00:32:40,880
uh pump speeds and injector pressures

837
00:32:49,750 --> 00:32:47,509
three minutes 15 seconds in

838
00:32:59,830 --> 00:32:49,760
right about to cut that booster vehicle

839
00:33:04,230 --> 00:33:02,470
now three minutes 30 seconds in

840
00:33:06,470 --> 00:33:04,240
rd180 now throttling to maintain a

841
00:33:13,830 --> 00:33:06,480
constant 5g acceleration limit engine

842
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:20,470
and we've begun boost chill down

843
00:33:25,269 --> 00:33:22,870
now throttling to a 4.6 g acceleration

844
00:33:31,830 --> 00:33:25,279
limit boost phase till down has ended

845
00:33:38,149 --> 00:33:33,430
and we have b booster and cutoff

846
00:33:42,230 --> 00:33:39,590
and we have good indication of atlas

847
00:33:44,149 --> 00:33:42,240
centaur separation

848
00:33:45,830 --> 00:33:44,159
we have pre-start on the rl10 standing

849
00:33:48,149 --> 00:33:45,840
by for ignition

850
00:33:50,230 --> 00:33:48,159
next major milestone is the payload

851
00:33:52,070 --> 00:33:50,240
fairing when that comes off ignition and

852
00:33:56,710 --> 00:33:52,080
full thrust on the rl10 chamber pressure

853
00:34:00,630 --> 00:33:58,310
that payload and we have good indication

854
00:34:03,350 --> 00:34:00,640
of payload fairing jettison

855
00:34:14,389 --> 00:34:04,870
this first burn of today's mission will

856
00:34:18,230 --> 00:34:16,149
and the rcs system is now performing

857
00:34:27,829 --> 00:34:18,240
initial firings to warm up the rcs motor

858
00:34:33,190 --> 00:34:30,470
and the centaur is now 100 miles in

859
00:34:34,389 --> 00:34:33,200
altitude 450 miles downrange distance

860
00:34:35,990 --> 00:34:34,399
traveling at

861
00:34:38,869 --> 00:34:36,000
eleven thousand eight hundred miles per

862
00:34:42,550 --> 00:34:41,430
five minutes ten seconds into flight

863
00:34:44,470 --> 00:34:42,560
and you're listening to the voice of

864
00:34:45,669 --> 00:34:44,480
patrick moore you always

865
00:34:53,909 --> 00:34:45,679
launch

866
00:35:01,109 --> 00:34:55,589
since our propellant utilization system

867
00:35:06,230 --> 00:35:03,030
flight is looking

868
00:35:09,910 --> 00:35:08,470
an rcs system now performing periodic

869
00:35:21,829 --> 00:35:09,920
firing for thermal conditioning of the

870
00:35:26,069 --> 00:35:23,510
and initial review of booster

871
00:35:27,190 --> 00:35:26,079
performance shows the booster performed

872
00:35:36,470 --> 00:35:27,200
close to

873
00:35:41,990 --> 00:35:39,190
so the next major milestone will be the

874
00:35:43,349 --> 00:35:42,000
centaur first main engine cutoff and

875
00:35:46,150 --> 00:35:43,359
we've got about

876
00:35:48,470 --> 00:35:46,160
uh let's say five to six minutes before

877
00:35:50,710 --> 00:35:48,480
that let's bring nick woltman back in um

878
00:35:52,550 --> 00:35:50,720
what did you think about uh the liftoff

879
00:35:53,670 --> 00:35:52,560
and and the flight and separation looked

880
00:35:58,550 --> 00:35:53,680
pretty good from here as we were

881
00:36:02,310 --> 00:36:00,069
here all the mark events that were hit

882
00:36:04,390 --> 00:36:02,320
and it seems like first stage performed

883
00:36:06,710 --> 00:36:04,400
very nominal and rd1e performed very

884
00:36:07,990 --> 00:36:06,720
well to get the first stage and centaur

885
00:36:09,349 --> 00:36:08,000
on its way so

886
00:36:10,790 --> 00:36:09,359
things are looking really well on this

887
00:36:13,910 --> 00:36:10,800
flight

888
00:36:17,030 --> 00:36:13,920
at centaur uh performing uh uh thrusts

889
00:36:18,390 --> 00:36:17,040
of about 22 000 pounds

890
00:36:20,870 --> 00:36:18,400
and flying

891
00:36:24,069 --> 00:36:20,880
and what mick has been described to me

892
00:36:25,430 --> 00:36:24,079
is a very exact entry into orbit it's

893
00:36:26,710 --> 00:36:25,440
not going all the way around the earth

894
00:36:28,230 --> 00:36:26,720
but it does have to have a certain

895
00:36:29,270 --> 00:36:28,240
amount of precision because it's a

896
00:36:31,430 --> 00:36:29,280
partial

897
00:36:34,150 --> 00:36:31,440
orbit around earth yeah this first burn

898
00:36:37,349 --> 00:36:34,160
will get centaur and solar orbiter into

899
00:36:39,030 --> 00:36:37,359
a semi-circular orbit as we

900
00:36:40,790 --> 00:36:39,040
come around the earth and then we will

901
00:36:43,270 --> 00:36:40,800
get ready for our

902
00:36:45,670 --> 00:36:43,280
main engine start number two

903
00:36:47,910 --> 00:36:45,680
and that will get us onto our transfer

904
00:36:50,310 --> 00:36:47,920
trajectory orbit so our transfer

905
00:36:52,470 --> 00:36:50,320
trajectory to head off toward the sun so

906
00:36:53,670 --> 00:36:52,480
yeah centaur has to perform very well on

907
00:36:55,990 --> 00:36:53,680
this first

908
00:36:57,190 --> 00:36:56,000
burn to get into that semi-circular park

909
00:36:59,349 --> 00:36:57,200
orbit

910
00:37:01,030 --> 00:36:59,359
and it's a lot of power that's needed

911
00:37:01,910 --> 00:37:01,040
in order to get this thing going because

912
00:37:04,390 --> 00:37:01,920
uh

913
00:37:10,870 --> 00:37:04,400
she's going off into the deeper part of

914
00:37:13,829 --> 00:37:11,990
we're getting a report of good

915
00:37:17,829 --> 00:37:13,839
performance so far and that's uh

916
00:37:22,310 --> 00:37:20,470
the team here mick talk about

917
00:37:24,310 --> 00:37:22,320
the reaction at this point for the

918
00:37:26,390 --> 00:37:24,320
launch team we heard a little bit of a

919
00:37:28,470 --> 00:37:26,400
celebration behind us yeah the team

920
00:37:30,470 --> 00:37:28,480
doesn't really get too excited here but

921
00:37:32,870 --> 00:37:30,480
it is a mark event of first stage

922
00:37:34,950 --> 00:37:32,880
separation is important getting mains

923
00:37:37,030 --> 00:37:34,960
engine start uh is a very important too

924
00:37:39,030 --> 00:37:37,040
as you said getting centaur on its way

925
00:37:42,230 --> 00:37:39,040
the aerojet rocketdyne rl10 performing

926
00:37:43,990 --> 00:37:42,240
very well right now on this first burn

927
00:37:45,370 --> 00:37:44,000
but the team is starting to look at

928
00:37:46,630 --> 00:37:45,380
their data continuing to

929
00:37:48,470 --> 00:37:46,640
[Music]

930
00:37:50,790 --> 00:37:48,480
follow the centaur in flight on

931
00:37:52,710 --> 00:37:50,800
real-time data the booster team is

932
00:37:54,150 --> 00:37:52,720
looking at their data after a first

933
00:37:55,510 --> 00:37:54,160
stage separated to make sure everything

934
00:37:57,109 --> 00:37:55,520
performed well

935
00:37:58,470 --> 00:37:57,119
doing a quick look of everything to make

936
00:37:59,829 --> 00:37:58,480
sure there's no anomalies in the flight

937
00:38:01,430 --> 00:37:59,839
so far and so far we haven't seen

938
00:38:03,589 --> 00:38:01,440
anything or heard so things are

939
00:38:05,589 --> 00:38:03,599
performing very well for this flight for

940
00:38:08,470 --> 00:38:05,599
solar orbiter on its way and that's good

941
00:38:11,030 --> 00:38:08,480
news certainly for our european partners

942
00:38:12,470 --> 00:38:11,040
who are collaborating in this effort the

943
00:38:14,870 --> 00:38:12,480
solar orbiter

944
00:38:17,030 --> 00:38:14,880
plans to unlock quite a few mysteries of

945
00:38:18,870 --> 00:38:17,040
the sun as we have learned in the weeks

946
00:38:21,270 --> 00:38:18,880
rolling up to this there's been a lot of

947
00:38:22,310 --> 00:38:21,280
time and effort that the teams have put

948
00:38:23,910 --> 00:38:22,320
into

949
00:38:24,790 --> 00:38:23,920
building the spacecraft and then of

950
00:38:27,510 --> 00:38:24,800
course

951
00:38:29,430 --> 00:38:27,520
preparing for launch many years

952
00:38:31,589 --> 00:38:29,440
in the making

953
00:38:34,550 --> 00:38:31,599
as we listen in now we are

954
00:38:35,990 --> 00:38:34,560
we're getting a little more of an update

955
00:38:39,510 --> 00:38:36,000
so far

956
00:38:40,950 --> 00:38:39,520
continues to have good flight

957
00:38:42,710 --> 00:38:40,960
this orbit

958
00:38:45,829 --> 00:38:42,720
you were talking a little bit about this

959
00:38:47,190 --> 00:38:45,839
transfer orbit it's using a planetary

960
00:38:49,910 --> 00:38:47,200
assist

961
00:38:51,670 --> 00:38:49,920
to get to its location ultimately right

962
00:38:53,430 --> 00:38:51,680
ultimately once we get into our transfer

963
00:38:55,270 --> 00:38:53,440
orbit and solar orbiters on its way to

964
00:38:57,349 --> 00:38:55,280
the sun eventually they'll use the

965
00:39:00,390 --> 00:38:57,359
gravitational assist from venus

966
00:39:02,630 --> 00:39:00,400
and uh to get uh into their

967
00:39:04,150 --> 00:39:02,640
orbit and trajectory heading for sun so

968
00:39:05,829 --> 00:39:04,160
they can study the poles of the sun and

969
00:39:07,190 --> 00:39:05,839
that as we heard earlier from josh

970
00:39:09,589 --> 00:39:07,200
that'll be a couple years into the

971
00:39:12,069 --> 00:39:09,599
mission as they're doing that to

972
00:39:14,630 --> 00:39:12,079
maintain their trajectory and keep going

973
00:39:16,790 --> 00:39:14,640
um as you had said earlier uh centaur

974
00:39:19,589 --> 00:39:16,800
performing very well here uh on this

975
00:39:21,430 --> 00:39:19,599
first burn and the teams are continuing

976
00:39:24,790 --> 00:39:21,440
to look at data and how how it's uh

977
00:39:27,510 --> 00:39:24,800
performing and uh you know we're happy

978
00:39:29,589 --> 00:39:27,520
to be at this part in the flight but

979
00:39:31,670 --> 00:39:29,599
as you said important to our issa

980
00:39:33,670 --> 00:39:31,680
friends and solar orbiter and nasa we

981
00:39:35,190 --> 00:39:33,680
still have a long way to go for payload

982
00:39:37,430 --> 00:39:35,200
separation so

983
00:39:38,790 --> 00:39:37,440
mission is going well so far and then we

984
00:39:40,630 --> 00:39:38,800
will continue to

985
00:39:42,950 --> 00:39:40,640
follow this and see how centaur performs

986
00:39:44,950 --> 00:39:42,960
to get our payload deployed successfully

987
00:39:47,430 --> 00:39:44,960
the spacecraft teams certainly watching

988
00:39:50,150 --> 00:39:47,440
every moment of this very closely as

989
00:39:51,190 --> 00:39:50,160
this is a as a very tense time for them

990
00:39:53,750 --> 00:39:51,200
but

991
00:39:55,270 --> 00:39:53,760
no need to worry because at this point

992
00:39:57,829 --> 00:39:55,280
centaur is

993
00:39:59,829 --> 00:39:57,839
taken taken her to the spot that she

994
00:40:01,270 --> 00:39:59,839
needs to go and uh

995
00:40:03,589 --> 00:40:01,280
this centaur we were talking a little

996
00:40:04,630 --> 00:40:03,599
bit earlier it uh it's the last of its

997
00:40:07,750 --> 00:40:04,640
kind

998
00:40:10,550 --> 00:40:07,760
that is um in flight now but it's

999
00:40:12,630 --> 00:40:10,560
getting some upgrades um it is

1000
00:40:14,550 --> 00:40:12,640
performing great but um

1001
00:40:16,309 --> 00:40:14,560
what kind of improvements yeah is it

1002
00:40:18,870 --> 00:40:16,319
getting yeah i would say not centaur

1003
00:40:21,670 --> 00:40:18,880
mainly but the rl10 for engine right

1004
00:40:23,910 --> 00:40:21,680
yeah it's the last uh single version of

1005
00:40:25,990 --> 00:40:23,920
rl10a that will fly

1006
00:40:28,630 --> 00:40:26,000
all vehicles in single stick from here

1007
00:40:32,630 --> 00:40:28,640
on out will fly an upgraded rl10c

1008
00:40:35,109 --> 00:40:32,640
however the rl-104a will be used for

1009
00:40:37,589 --> 00:40:35,119
human spaceflight we need dual engine

1010
00:40:40,069 --> 00:40:37,599
configurations on centaur for human

1011
00:40:42,309 --> 00:40:40,079
space flight to get astronauts back to

1012
00:40:43,030 --> 00:40:42,319
the moon and then on to mars

1013
00:40:46,630 --> 00:40:43,040
so

1014
00:40:48,550 --> 00:40:46,640
rl10 4a will still be flown and and used

1015
00:40:50,829 --> 00:40:48,560
but in a dual configuration set of

1016
00:40:53,510 --> 00:40:50,839
singles so we're very happy to fly this

1017
00:40:55,670 --> 00:40:53,520
last 4a in this single configuration

1018
00:40:57,670 --> 00:40:55,680
with solar orbiter it was very well

1019
00:40:59,750 --> 00:40:57,680
suited for this mission and to perform

1020
00:41:02,150 --> 00:40:59,760
the task that seems to be done and that

1021
00:41:05,270 --> 00:41:02,160
dual engine has to provide a lot of

1022
00:41:07,829 --> 00:41:05,280
power when it comes to as you mentioned

1023
00:41:09,829 --> 00:41:07,839
the astronauts who are going to be going

1024
00:41:12,550 --> 00:41:09,839
back up to the international space

1025
00:41:14,950 --> 00:41:12,560
station from american soil once uh

1026
00:41:17,670 --> 00:41:14,960
boeing gets the go ahead to fly that

1027
00:41:19,750 --> 00:41:17,680
dual engine that's that power is needed

1028
00:41:21,990 --> 00:41:19,760
because it's going to be a lot heavier a

1029
00:41:23,430 --> 00:41:22,000
lot heavier and we want you know more

1030
00:41:24,470 --> 00:41:23,440
energy and controllability from the

1031
00:41:27,030 --> 00:41:24,480
centaur

1032
00:41:29,589 --> 00:41:27,040
we also have that

1033
00:41:32,390 --> 00:41:29,599
you know dual engine setup for

1034
00:41:33,750 --> 00:41:32,400
redundancy and controllability there

1035
00:41:35,430 --> 00:41:33,760
we're going to get an update in just a

1036
00:41:38,150 --> 00:41:35,440
moment from uh

1037
00:41:40,309 --> 00:41:38,160
ula scott messer but until then we are

1038
00:41:42,710 --> 00:41:40,319
tracking this flight and the successful

1039
00:41:45,910 --> 00:41:42,720
flight that it has been so far you're

1040
00:41:47,109 --> 00:41:45,920
looking at a graphical representation of

1041
00:41:49,430 --> 00:41:47,119
exactly

1042
00:41:51,910 --> 00:41:49,440
what we're expecting the flight to look

1043
00:41:53,990 --> 00:41:51,920
like and everything is looking good at

1044
00:41:56,630 --> 00:41:54,000
this point a matter of fact darrell we

1045
00:41:59,190 --> 00:41:56,640
just heard we've got main engine cut off

1046
00:42:01,190 --> 00:41:59,200
so centaur is

1047
00:42:03,349 --> 00:42:01,200
shut down its engine for the first

1048
00:42:05,670 --> 00:42:03,359
firing things look good body rates have

1049
00:42:07,589 --> 00:42:05,680
damped out and everything looks good on

1050
00:42:09,589 --> 00:42:07,599
this mission so far

1051
00:42:12,470 --> 00:42:09,599
so as we get ready to go

1052
00:42:14,390 --> 00:42:12,480
centaur will continue to its mission by

1053
00:42:16,790 --> 00:42:14,400
rolling and turning to the position it

1054
00:42:19,270 --> 00:42:16,800
needs to get ready for main engine start

1055
00:42:20,950 --> 00:42:19,280
2 that transfer orbit or transfer

1056
00:42:23,910 --> 00:42:20,960
trajectory that we talked about

1057
00:42:26,309 --> 00:42:23,920
the engine will need to get ready and

1058
00:42:28,309 --> 00:42:26,319
chill down and and get ready to fire up

1059
00:42:31,910 --> 00:42:28,319
this coast period that we're in

1060
00:42:35,190 --> 00:42:31,920
will be about uh 30 minutes uh to get

1061
00:42:38,150 --> 00:42:35,200
into position before we have to uh fire

1062
00:42:41,510 --> 00:42:38,160
up the centaur engine again uh that'll

1063
00:42:45,030 --> 00:42:41,520
be about 38 39 minutes into the mission

1064
00:42:47,990 --> 00:42:45,040
that we will do that and it will fire

1065
00:42:50,630 --> 00:42:48,000
for roughly six minutes to get into that

1066
00:42:52,870 --> 00:42:50,640
transfer orbit so uh

1067
00:42:55,270 --> 00:42:52,880
centaur performing very well atlas

1068
00:42:57,270 --> 00:42:55,280
centaur and solar orbit are on its way

1069
00:42:58,710 --> 00:42:57,280
so things are looking really good this

1070
00:43:00,630 --> 00:42:58,720
is a bit of a coast phase you would

1071
00:43:02,390 --> 00:43:00,640
describe coast coast phase yes centaur

1072
00:43:05,430 --> 00:43:02,400
perform well and and doing some

1073
00:43:07,990 --> 00:43:05,440
maneuvers here in this coast phase so

1074
00:43:10,470 --> 00:43:08,000
all right and so while we monitor

1075
00:43:12,870 --> 00:43:10,480
the coasting of the centaur

1076
00:43:14,470 --> 00:43:12,880
stage we will also be monitoring the

1077
00:43:16,150 --> 00:43:14,480
launch team so let you know when they

1078
00:43:18,710 --> 00:43:16,160
fire that engine back up but in the

1079
00:43:20,630 --> 00:43:18,720
meantime we are going to send it back to

1080
00:43:22,790 --> 00:43:20,640
the asoc with joshua santora who is

1081
00:43:24,630 --> 00:43:22,800
joined by scott messer

1082
00:43:25,750 --> 00:43:24,640
take it away joshua hey a lot more ahead

1083
00:43:27,270 --> 00:43:25,760
but we appreciate you both walking us

1084
00:43:29,670 --> 00:43:27,280
through those first few very dynamic

1085
00:43:31,670 --> 00:43:29,680
minutes of flight um again a lot

1086
00:43:33,109 --> 00:43:31,680
happened a lot to go and now with me is

1087
00:43:34,870 --> 00:43:33,119
scott messer you're the united launch

1088
00:43:36,710 --> 00:43:34,880
alliance program manager for nasa

1089
00:43:38,710 --> 00:43:36,720
missions i get that right yes you did

1090
00:43:40,710 --> 00:43:38,720
perfect awesome so scott got to feel

1091
00:43:42,470 --> 00:43:40,720
good like the boosters off the ground

1092
00:43:43,910 --> 00:43:42,480
we're on our way so what's what's all

1093
00:43:47,430 --> 00:43:43,920
happened so far

1094
00:43:49,270 --> 00:43:47,440
yeah so uh it is a beautiful count uh

1095
00:43:51,270 --> 00:43:49,280
one of the most quiet counts i've ever

1096
00:43:53,670 --> 00:43:51,280
been through indeed and

1097
00:43:56,150 --> 00:43:53,680
the liftoff was right on time

1098
00:43:57,589 --> 00:43:56,160
everything has looked good so far all

1099
00:43:58,950 --> 00:43:57,599
the data we're getting back is looking

1100
00:44:00,630 --> 00:43:58,960
really positive

1101
00:44:02,230 --> 00:44:00,640
yeah and so how are you feeling right

1102
00:44:04,230 --> 00:44:02,240
now because obviously like we've stolen

1103
00:44:05,829 --> 00:44:04,240
you away in the middle of like the job

1104
00:44:07,750 --> 00:44:05,839
is still happening um so appreciate

1105
00:44:09,750 --> 00:44:07,760
being here but how are you feeling i'm

1106
00:44:11,750 --> 00:44:09,760
super excited

1107
00:44:14,230 --> 00:44:11,760
it's always great to launch and get get

1108
00:44:16,309 --> 00:44:14,240
off but the beginning of the window and

1109
00:44:17,829 --> 00:44:16,319
uh everything looking great i'm i'm just

1110
00:44:19,910 --> 00:44:17,839
really excited and

1111
00:44:21,990 --> 00:44:19,920
thrilled to be meeting

1112
00:44:23,349 --> 00:44:22,000
customer requirements yeah i mean that's

1113
00:44:25,829 --> 00:44:23,359
the name of the game right yeah it

1114
00:44:28,069 --> 00:44:25,839
certainly is so what's ahead left for us

1115
00:44:29,990 --> 00:44:28,079
because obviously we're the the ula

1116
00:44:31,349 --> 00:44:30,000
portion of the day is not done yet so

1117
00:44:33,910 --> 00:44:31,359
what's still to come

1118
00:44:36,470 --> 00:44:33,920
yeah so we're in the middle uh now about

1119
00:44:38,470 --> 00:44:36,480
a 30 minute coast the second stage

1120
00:44:40,550 --> 00:44:38,480
engine will then start up again

1121
00:44:41,910 --> 00:44:40,560
burn for about another seven minutes a

1122
00:44:43,990 --> 00:44:41,920
short two minute coast and then

1123
00:44:46,069 --> 00:44:44,000
separation at about

1124
00:44:51,030 --> 00:44:46,079
11 55

1125
00:44:53,190 --> 00:44:51,040
another is that a typical timeline

1126
00:44:55,109 --> 00:44:53,200
because this is um a lot of times we see

1127
00:44:56,950 --> 00:44:55,119
for low earth orbit flights the booster

1128
00:44:58,630 --> 00:44:56,960
is only used for eight to twelve minutes

1129
00:45:00,630 --> 00:44:58,640
or so but this obviously we're we're

1130
00:45:03,190 --> 00:45:00,640
using this rocket for on the order of an

1131
00:45:05,990 --> 00:45:03,200
hour or so is that uh typical is that

1132
00:45:08,870 --> 00:45:06,000
atypical no it is very typical for nasa

1133
00:45:11,349 --> 00:45:08,880
missions uh i think probably

1134
00:45:12,309 --> 00:45:11,359
most of them last about an hour uh on

1135
00:45:14,870 --> 00:45:12,319
average

1136
00:45:16,790 --> 00:45:14,880
okay and so what's next for ula after we

1137
00:45:18,230 --> 00:45:16,800
so obviously we want today to go great

1138
00:45:19,510 --> 00:45:18,240
that's the focus right now but kind of

1139
00:45:22,150 --> 00:45:19,520
look into the future what's what's next

1140
00:45:24,870 --> 00:45:22,160
for ula well so uh

1141
00:45:28,390 --> 00:45:24,880
this is the first launch for ula in in

1142
00:45:30,390 --> 00:45:28,400
2020 yeah congrats the 137th successful

1143
00:45:31,670 --> 00:45:30,400
launch at least so far absolutely

1144
00:45:34,230 --> 00:45:31,680
everything we can expect everything to

1145
00:45:35,589 --> 00:45:34,240
go there so uh we've got several other

1146
00:45:37,270 --> 00:45:35,599
missions uh

1147
00:45:40,550 --> 00:45:37,280
for nasa coming down the line we've got

1148
00:45:43,430 --> 00:45:40,560
a mars mission uh in uh 20

1149
00:45:46,309 --> 00:45:43,440
in july and july march 2020. so that's

1150
00:45:48,790 --> 00:45:46,319
really exciting very exciting yeah it's

1151
00:45:49,829 --> 00:45:48,800
uh it's been a big big year for ula

1152
00:45:51,349 --> 00:45:49,839
awesome

1153
00:45:52,630 --> 00:45:51,359
and can you explain just a tiny bit more

1154
00:45:54,550 --> 00:45:52,640
kind of about your role is it just

1155
00:45:56,150 --> 00:45:54,560
focused on you're taking care of nasa

1156
00:45:58,150 --> 00:45:56,160
missions is that i mean that's kind of

1157
00:46:01,349 --> 00:45:58,160
what your description is is that true

1158
00:46:03,270 --> 00:46:01,359
it is i work with all the nasa science

1159
00:46:06,150 --> 00:46:03,280
missions and so

1160
00:46:07,750 --> 00:46:06,160
solar orbiter mars 2020 coming up here

1161
00:46:10,710 --> 00:46:07,760
and uh it's our job to make sure that

1162
00:46:13,109 --> 00:46:10,720
all the spacecraft requirements are met

1163
00:46:15,190 --> 00:46:13,119
we integrate with the spacecraft closely

1164
00:46:17,589 --> 00:46:15,200
for several years

1165
00:46:19,109 --> 00:46:17,599
and make sure that the rocket provides

1166
00:46:21,270 --> 00:46:19,119
all the necessary requirements the

1167
00:46:22,870 --> 00:46:21,280
spacecraft asks for great well scott we

1168
00:46:24,309 --> 00:46:22,880
appreciate you appreciate the united

1169
00:46:26,150 --> 00:46:24,319
launch alliance and all their work and

1170
00:46:27,910 --> 00:46:26,160
helping us be successful to unlock

1171
00:46:29,670 --> 00:46:27,920
secrets of the sun and everything else

1172
00:46:31,349 --> 00:46:29,680
that goes on so appreciate that we're

1173
00:46:32,950 --> 00:46:31,359
going to let you get back to monitoring

1174
00:46:34,710 --> 00:46:32,960
this rocket and the rest of the flight

1175
00:46:36,230 --> 00:46:34,720
i'm going to send you back out now to

1176
00:46:39,349 --> 00:46:36,240
blair out of the press site who's got

1177
00:46:44,390 --> 00:46:41,670
yeah thanks so much joshua i'm here with

1178
00:46:46,790 --> 00:46:44,400
basically a solar dynamic duo holly

1179
00:46:48,630 --> 00:46:46,800
gilbert and daniel mueller so great to

1180
00:46:50,470 --> 00:46:48,640
have you guys on i'm telling you i'm so

1181
00:46:52,630 --> 00:46:50,480
excited tell me your thoughts about the

1182
00:46:55,670 --> 00:46:52,640
launch we'll start with you holly just

1183
00:46:58,390 --> 00:46:55,680
one word wow i am just floored at how

1184
00:46:59,430 --> 00:46:58,400
exciting and amazing it was and i got to

1185
00:47:01,990 --> 00:46:59,440
share it with my husband and my

1186
00:47:04,150 --> 00:47:02,000
daughters and my partner in crime yeah

1187
00:47:06,150 --> 00:47:04,160
yeah dynamic duo though not on the crime

1188
00:47:07,910 --> 00:47:06,160
side you know part partner in good

1189
00:47:10,150 --> 00:47:07,920
science that's right

1190
00:47:11,990 --> 00:47:10,160
and daniel how about you i think this

1191
00:47:13,430 --> 00:47:12,000
was picture perfect yeah and and

1192
00:47:15,430 --> 00:47:13,440
suddenly you really felt like you

1193
00:47:16,790 --> 00:47:15,440
connected to the entire solar system i

1194
00:47:18,550 --> 00:47:16,800
mean you're here in the earth and you're

1195
00:47:20,950 --> 00:47:18,560
launching something that will go close

1196
00:47:22,549 --> 00:47:20,960
to the sun really out into space yeah

1197
00:47:24,390 --> 00:47:22,559
and and that brings up a good point i

1198
00:47:26,630 --> 00:47:24,400
was thinking to you guys earlier and i

1199
00:47:29,030 --> 00:47:26,640
thought you know when you were starving

1200
00:47:30,710 --> 00:47:29,040
scientists just getting out of school

1201
00:47:32,710 --> 00:47:30,720
did you ever think that you would be

1202
00:47:34,790 --> 00:47:32,720
here at kennedy space center watching

1203
00:47:38,069 --> 00:47:34,800
not just a rocket launch but a rocket

1204
00:47:40,230 --> 00:47:38,079
launch carrying a mission and spacecraft

1205
00:47:41,829 --> 00:47:40,240
that's so near and dear to your hearts

1206
00:47:43,750 --> 00:47:41,839
uh holly how about you

1207
00:47:45,349 --> 00:47:43,760
i couldn't have even imagined this even

1208
00:47:48,069 --> 00:47:45,359
though i've been in solar physics for

1209
00:47:49,589 --> 00:47:48,079
many years i just never thought i would

1210
00:47:52,470 --> 00:47:49,599
actually witness something come to

1211
00:47:53,829 --> 00:47:52,480
fruition like this and actually launched

1212
00:47:57,030 --> 00:47:53,839
it's amazing

1213
00:48:00,230 --> 00:47:57,040
daniel similar for me i mean

1214
00:48:02,870 --> 00:48:00,240
i met holly i think almost 20 years ago

1215
00:48:04,710 --> 00:48:02,880
at a phd school and i mean

1216
00:48:05,750 --> 00:48:04,720
i immediately knew this lady would go

1217
00:48:06,950 --> 00:48:05,760
very far

1218
00:48:09,109 --> 00:48:06,960
i would

1219
00:48:11,270 --> 00:48:09,119
not have expected to go along with her

1220
00:48:13,349 --> 00:48:11,280
to this point and so we're now sort of

1221
00:48:15,750 --> 00:48:13,359
really i mean after after many years of

1222
00:48:18,230 --> 00:48:15,760
hard work and setbacks and

1223
00:48:20,470 --> 00:48:18,240
excitement we've now really made it i

1224
00:48:22,309 --> 00:48:20,480
mean we are on our journey and that's

1225
00:48:24,230 --> 00:48:22,319
that's a big thing for me yeah and and

1226
00:48:26,150 --> 00:48:24,240
that's great too because this whole week

1227
00:48:27,750 --> 00:48:26,160
uh leading up to the launch and all the

1228
00:48:29,349 --> 00:48:27,760
stuff we've done leading up to the

1229
00:48:31,109 --> 00:48:29,359
launch in terms of preparing for the

1230
00:48:33,349 --> 00:48:31,119
show we've been hearing the

1231
00:48:35,670 --> 00:48:33,359
international partnership our friends at

1232
00:48:37,109 --> 00:48:35,680
nasa and esa and how they've all worked

1233
00:48:39,190 --> 00:48:37,119
together and i just

1234
00:48:40,870 --> 00:48:39,200
seeing you guys here talk a little bit

1235
00:48:42,950 --> 00:48:40,880
about the relationship and working

1236
00:48:44,870 --> 00:48:42,960
together on this particular mission yeah

1237
00:48:47,829 --> 00:48:44,880
i mean it's it's fantastic i couldn't

1238
00:48:48,950 --> 00:48:47,839
ask for a better project scientist team

1239
00:48:50,549 --> 00:48:48,960
i mean

1240
00:48:52,790 --> 00:48:50,559
it's a challenging thing having an

1241
00:48:54,790 --> 00:48:52,800
international partnership so we've had

1242
00:48:57,270 --> 00:48:54,800
especially daniel has had to really uh

1243
00:49:00,150 --> 00:48:57,280
work hard at making that all work and

1244
00:49:03,109 --> 00:49:00,160
ten instrument teams and it's just

1245
00:49:04,950 --> 00:49:03,119
it's an amazing partnership yeah yeah

1246
00:49:06,630 --> 00:49:04,960
and i was i was lucky that i had the

1247
00:49:08,950 --> 00:49:06,640
opportunity to work on the soho mission

1248
00:49:10,710 --> 00:49:08,960
before and i joined soho

1249
00:49:12,950 --> 00:49:10,720
in the phase where it was fully

1250
00:49:14,870 --> 00:49:12,960
operational and i was working for isa

1251
00:49:17,270 --> 00:49:14,880
but actually based at nasa so i could

1252
00:49:19,270 --> 00:49:17,280
really form personal bonds with people

1253
00:49:21,190 --> 00:49:19,280
that i still work with today and that's

1254
00:49:23,109 --> 00:49:21,200
been really key well you know i'm glad

1255
00:49:25,030 --> 00:49:23,119
you brought that up because as an

1256
00:49:27,829 --> 00:49:25,040
observer to this because i'm from the

1257
00:49:29,990 --> 00:49:27,839
liberal arts side it's really impressive

1258
00:49:32,470 --> 00:49:30,000
to see that even though you're separated

1259
00:49:35,190 --> 00:49:32,480
by miles and miles or kilometers i guess

1260
00:49:37,190 --> 00:49:35,200
in in some cases um

1261
00:49:39,109 --> 00:49:37,200
in the science community it the

1262
00:49:41,109 --> 00:49:39,119
boundaries sort of disappear you kind of

1263
00:49:43,510 --> 00:49:41,119
have the same objectives and it's got to

1264
00:49:46,150 --> 00:49:43,520
be a really really great feeling to be

1265
00:49:47,349 --> 00:49:46,160
able to know that you can uh trust and

1266
00:49:49,910 --> 00:49:47,359
work with people of different

1267
00:49:51,589 --> 00:49:49,920
backgrounds to get such important data

1268
00:49:53,750 --> 00:49:51,599
yeah that's a really good point i mean

1269
00:49:55,030 --> 00:49:53,760
it's we have one common goal and that is

1270
00:49:56,309 --> 00:49:55,040
to get the good science out of this

1271
00:49:58,390 --> 00:49:56,319
mission and i think we're going to

1272
00:50:01,349 --> 00:49:58,400
succeed yeah and that's exactly the

1273
00:50:03,109 --> 00:50:01,359
point i try to make also to to younger

1274
00:50:04,790 --> 00:50:03,119
people and school children i mean

1275
00:50:06,790 --> 00:50:04,800
science really makes the borders

1276
00:50:08,630 --> 00:50:06,800
disappear it doesn't really matter where

1277
00:50:10,309 --> 00:50:08,640
you're from and in particular if you

1278
00:50:12,150 --> 00:50:10,319
have a real successful collaboration

1279
00:50:13,589 --> 00:50:12,160
between different countries on the

1280
00:50:15,510 --> 00:50:13,599
institutional level that can really

1281
00:50:17,109 --> 00:50:15,520
bring people much further than they

1282
00:50:18,870 --> 00:50:17,119
might have dreamt of oh that's

1283
00:50:20,390 --> 00:50:18,880
incredible sure thanks so much guys

1284
00:50:22,549 --> 00:50:20,400
thanks for being on the show continue to

1285
00:50:24,230 --> 00:50:22,559
celebrate and we'll go back to joshua

1286
00:50:26,230 --> 00:50:24,240
joshua and the asoc

1287
00:50:27,829 --> 00:50:26,240
tell you what congratulations on a good

1288
00:50:29,109 --> 00:50:27,839
launch and uh

1289
00:50:31,030 --> 00:50:29,119
back to you buddy

1290
00:50:32,309 --> 00:50:31,040
yeah thanks blair same to the folks over

1291
00:50:33,990 --> 00:50:32,319
there daniel and holly a great launch

1292
00:50:36,390 --> 00:50:34,000
everybody's excited um so we're actually

1293
00:50:38,230 --> 00:50:36,400
gonna send you back out now to laura who

1294
00:50:40,069 --> 00:50:38,240
is who has caught up with another one of

1295
00:50:41,510 --> 00:50:40,079
those special people working behind the

1296
00:50:43,750 --> 00:50:41,520
scenes for years leading up to these

1297
00:50:45,910 --> 00:50:43,760
missions uh laura take it away

1298
00:50:48,230 --> 00:50:45,920
thank you joshua i'm joined by anna

1299
00:50:50,470 --> 00:50:48,240
pacrose with the european space agency

1300
00:50:53,030 --> 00:50:50,480
and she is solar orbiter's payload

1301
00:50:55,190 --> 00:50:53,040
manager and what did you think of that

1302
00:50:57,510 --> 00:50:55,200
launch oh well really it was a roller

1303
00:50:59,510 --> 00:50:57,520
coaster of emotions for me it was uh

1304
00:51:01,670 --> 00:50:59,520
exciting of course after working eight

1305
00:51:03,750 --> 00:51:01,680
years on the project to see it go on its

1306
00:51:05,190 --> 00:51:03,760
way but it's also a bit i was a bit

1307
00:51:07,349 --> 00:51:05,200
anxious you know to see everything's

1308
00:51:09,829 --> 00:51:07,359
going is everything going to go well um

1309
00:51:12,230 --> 00:51:09,839
is the signal uh going to be acquired in

1310
00:51:14,470 --> 00:51:12,240
a few moments so yeah

1311
00:51:16,549 --> 00:51:14,480
wait and see for now okay so ann i know

1312
00:51:18,309 --> 00:51:16,559
you're an engineer but tell us a little

1313
00:51:20,630 --> 00:51:18,319
bit more about what the payload

1314
00:51:23,349 --> 00:51:20,640
manager's responsibilities are so as

1315
00:51:24,950 --> 00:51:23,359
payload manager i'm responsible for the

1316
00:51:27,829 --> 00:51:24,960
well-being of the ten instruments so

1317
00:51:29,670 --> 00:51:27,839
making sure the spacecraft is

1318
00:51:31,829 --> 00:51:29,680
compliant to what uh the instruments

1319
00:51:33,750 --> 00:51:31,839
want to do making sure the instruments

1320
00:51:36,069 --> 00:51:33,760
are also ready to be integrated on the

1321
00:51:38,710 --> 00:51:36,079
spacecraft and sometimes chasing them a

1322
00:51:40,069 --> 00:51:38,720
little bit to deliver on time so it was

1323
00:51:42,230 --> 00:51:40,079
really um

1324
00:51:43,829 --> 00:51:42,240
a big job to uh together with my team to

1325
00:51:45,670 --> 00:51:43,839
to take care of these 10 instruments on

1326
00:51:47,910 --> 00:51:45,680
this mission so with 10 on board that

1327
00:51:49,990 --> 00:51:47,920
must have posed some challenges

1328
00:51:51,589 --> 00:51:50,000
right exactly so the ten instruments are

1329
00:51:52,790 --> 00:51:51,599
all different it's like ten different

1330
00:51:55,270 --> 00:51:52,800
children and all of them are their

1331
00:51:57,349 --> 00:51:55,280
different needs so it was sometimes a

1332
00:51:59,750 --> 00:51:57,359
bit of a compromise we had to find to

1333
00:52:02,309 --> 00:51:59,760
make sure they could all uh fit on board

1334
00:52:04,790 --> 00:52:02,319
and and and yeah live together on board

1335
00:52:06,309 --> 00:52:04,800
this mission um because they the point

1336
00:52:08,069 --> 00:52:06,319
of the orbiter is really to make this

1337
00:52:09,990 --> 00:52:08,079
connection between the institute science

1338
00:52:12,230 --> 00:52:10,000
and the remote sensing observations so

1339
00:52:13,750 --> 00:52:12,240
really we really had to to make them fit

1340
00:52:14,710 --> 00:52:13,760
together to take their measurements

1341
00:52:16,390 --> 00:52:14,720
together

1342
00:52:18,630 --> 00:52:16,400
so they're all on board and solar

1343
00:52:21,349 --> 00:52:18,640
orbiter is on the way what's next for

1344
00:52:22,790 --> 00:52:21,359
you so um as i said so we're going to

1345
00:52:24,549 --> 00:52:22,800
acquire the first signal and we're going

1346
00:52:26,230 --> 00:52:24,559
then to start uh

1347
00:52:28,790 --> 00:52:26,240
deploying all our

1348
00:52:30,790 --> 00:52:28,800
antennas all the the boom

1349
00:52:32,390 --> 00:52:30,800
and after that we have to check that all

1350
00:52:34,230 --> 00:52:32,400
the instruments are working as expected

1351
00:52:35,829 --> 00:52:34,240
this is called the commissioning phase

1352
00:52:37,990 --> 00:52:35,839
and because we have ten instruments it

1353
00:52:39,910 --> 00:52:38,000
lasts two to three months we're going to

1354
00:52:41,270 --> 00:52:39,920
take first measurements for some

1355
00:52:42,950 --> 00:52:41,280
instruments we're going to take the

1356
00:52:44,309 --> 00:52:42,960
first images

1357
00:52:47,349 --> 00:52:44,319
already to make sure everything is

1358
00:52:49,270 --> 00:52:47,359
working fine and about june time frame

1359
00:52:51,190 --> 00:52:49,280
when all this has been done then we

1360
00:52:53,349 --> 00:52:51,200
declare the mission commission and they

1361
00:52:55,430 --> 00:52:53,359
can go ahead on their way for the cruise

1362
00:52:56,870 --> 00:52:55,440
phase and the science phase all right so

1363
00:52:59,430 --> 00:52:56,880
just a little bit longer a little bit

1364
00:53:02,069 --> 00:52:59,440
more work to do but joshua you could see

1365
00:53:04,150 --> 00:53:02,079
after a lot of years of hard work you

1366
00:53:06,390 --> 00:53:04,160
celebrate by coming all the way to

1367
00:53:08,470 --> 00:53:06,400
florida to kennedy space center to watch

1368
00:53:09,829 --> 00:53:08,480
a launch back to you hey listen that's a

1369
00:53:11,430 --> 00:53:09,839
great way to celebrate anything with

1370
00:53:13,270 --> 00:53:11,440
rocket launches so

1371
00:53:14,790 --> 00:53:13,280
we appreciate that energy and enthusiasm

1372
00:53:17,349 --> 00:53:14,800
and excitement from people like anna

1373
00:53:19,030 --> 00:53:17,359
just because that helps us be just all

1374
00:53:20,630 --> 00:53:19,040
the more excited to see them succeed and

1375
00:53:22,390 --> 00:53:20,640
to succeed alongside of them through

1376
00:53:23,910 --> 00:53:22,400
this international collaboration so

1377
00:53:25,670 --> 00:53:23,920
we're going to send you back over now to

1378
00:53:27,750 --> 00:53:25,680
daryl and mick to check in on the status

1379
00:53:29,750 --> 00:53:27,760
of our vehicle i'm still in flight here

1380
00:53:31,190 --> 00:53:29,760
uh daryl nick how are we looking well

1381
00:53:32,630 --> 00:53:31,200
looking good speaking of energy and

1382
00:53:34,630 --> 00:53:32,640
enthusiasm

1383
00:53:36,069 --> 00:53:34,640
here is a real rocket guy who loves

1384
00:53:37,910 --> 00:53:36,079
watching these things

1385
00:53:39,510 --> 00:53:37,920
every single time you get pretty jazzed

1386
00:53:41,030 --> 00:53:39,520
about it yeah and it's great to hear our

1387
00:53:42,549 --> 00:53:41,040
international partners and how excited

1388
00:53:44,870 --> 00:53:42,559
they are so far for this we still have a

1389
00:53:46,470 --> 00:53:44,880
little ways to go to get separation but

1390
00:53:49,589 --> 00:53:46,480
so far this has been a great launch very

1391
00:53:51,270 --> 00:53:49,599
quiet and very excited for this

1392
00:53:52,870 --> 00:53:51,280
matter of fact it's just been really

1393
00:53:56,309 --> 00:53:52,880
nominal so far that's good it all

1394
00:53:58,470 --> 00:53:56,319
started at 1103 eastern zero zero as a

1395
00:53:59,950 --> 00:53:58,480
matter of fact right on time actually i

1396
00:54:02,549 --> 00:53:59,960
don't have a conversion for that no

1397
00:54:05,510 --> 00:54:02,559
confirmation letting me down nick what

1398
00:54:06,549 --> 00:54:05,520
happened no it was right on time at 1103

1399
00:54:09,109 --> 00:54:06,559
liftoff

1400
00:54:10,549 --> 00:54:09,119
the ula nasa esa teams did a great job

1401
00:54:12,549 --> 00:54:10,559
of coordinating and getting this rocket

1402
00:54:15,270 --> 00:54:12,559
off the ground today so we continue to

1403
00:54:17,750 --> 00:54:15,280
see a graphical representation of

1404
00:54:19,030 --> 00:54:17,760
the centaur in coast phase as it goes

1405
00:54:20,790 --> 00:54:19,040
along and

1406
00:54:24,309 --> 00:54:20,800
trust me the spacecraft team at this

1407
00:54:26,870 --> 00:54:24,319
point is still very much very focused on

1408
00:54:29,270 --> 00:54:26,880
uh the telemetry that's coming in from

1409
00:54:30,950 --> 00:54:29,280
uh this spacecraft yeah absolutely

1410
00:54:32,309 --> 00:54:30,960
they're they're looking at that the ula

1411
00:54:34,230 --> 00:54:32,319
and nasa teams are looking at the

1412
00:54:35,910 --> 00:54:34,240
centaur telemetry making sure that

1413
00:54:37,670 --> 00:54:35,920
things are going well matter of fact

1414
00:54:39,349 --> 00:54:37,680
we're we've got about 18 minutes still

1415
00:54:41,430 --> 00:54:39,359
left in the coast

1416
00:54:43,190 --> 00:54:41,440
all centaur systems are looking nominal

1417
00:54:45,670 --> 00:54:43,200
with the rcs thrusters firing and

1418
00:54:47,829 --> 00:54:45,680
settling the propellant back into the

1419
00:54:48,950 --> 00:54:47,839
tanks getting ready for that main engine

1420
00:54:51,670 --> 00:54:48,960
start to

1421
00:54:54,150 --> 00:54:51,680
um to get us on to that transfer

1422
00:54:56,150 --> 00:54:54,160
trajectory so talk us through the next

1423
00:54:58,789 --> 00:54:56,160
steps that are coming and we've got a

1424
00:55:01,349 --> 00:54:58,799
little time to kind of talk about that

1425
00:55:03,910 --> 00:55:01,359
the centaur second main engine will

1426
00:55:06,470 --> 00:55:03,920
restart and then it will fire for a

1427
00:55:09,030 --> 00:55:06,480
period of time talk about the purpose of

1428
00:55:11,910 --> 00:55:09,040
that once it's re-lit and then

1429
00:55:13,990 --> 00:55:11,920
and then cut off again yeah so centaur

1430
00:55:16,069 --> 00:55:14,000
is in its coast phase right now in that

1431
00:55:18,230 --> 00:55:16,079
that semi-circular orbit we talked about

1432
00:55:20,309 --> 00:55:18,240
earlier that parking orbit to get us

1433
00:55:22,470 --> 00:55:20,319
started and as we get into coast the

1434
00:55:25,190 --> 00:55:22,480
vehicle is performing a few maneuvers

1435
00:55:27,109 --> 00:55:25,200
now using the reaction control thrusters

1436
00:55:28,630 --> 00:55:27,119
to make sure that the liquid oxygen

1437
00:55:30,390 --> 00:55:28,640
hydrogen that are still in the tanks are

1438
00:55:33,190 --> 00:55:30,400
settled back down to the bottom of the

1439
00:55:34,870 --> 00:55:33,200
tank to get ready for main engine start

1440
00:55:37,030 --> 00:55:34,880
that's a unique thing with the rl10

1441
00:55:39,190 --> 00:55:37,040
engine is you can do multiple starts

1442
00:55:40,950 --> 00:55:39,200
with it to support a mission like this

1443
00:55:42,470 --> 00:55:40,960
and the trajectories you need and the

1444
00:55:44,710 --> 00:55:42,480
purpose of that is when they get ready

1445
00:55:47,190 --> 00:55:44,720
for main engine start they will fire

1446
00:55:49,270 --> 00:55:47,200
that engine for seven minutes to get us

1447
00:55:50,950 --> 00:55:49,280
into that transfer trajectory orbit that

1448
00:55:52,870 --> 00:55:50,960
we talked about basically breaking out

1449
00:55:56,309 --> 00:55:52,880
of that circular orbit around earth and

1450
00:55:58,309 --> 00:55:56,319
getting into a transfer orbit to

1451
00:56:00,230 --> 00:55:58,319
head on towards the sun and start its

1452
00:56:02,470 --> 00:56:00,240
science mission so that's a very

1453
00:56:04,630 --> 00:56:02,480
important burn to make sure we get out

1454
00:56:06,470 --> 00:56:04,640
of the earth orbit and on towards the

1455
00:56:09,030 --> 00:56:06,480
sun and we can see

1456
00:56:11,910 --> 00:56:09,040
in this uh animation here

1457
00:56:13,829 --> 00:56:11,920
that there's subtle little firings there

1458
00:56:15,510 --> 00:56:13,839
yeah that's the rcs thrusters settling

1459
00:56:17,510 --> 00:56:15,520
the vehicle and getting ready for that

1460
00:56:19,349 --> 00:56:17,520
main engine start too

1461
00:56:21,910 --> 00:56:19,359
all right and so as we stand by for that

1462
00:56:24,870 --> 00:56:21,920
we're going to send it back to the asoc

1463
00:56:26,630 --> 00:56:24,880
joshua we'll let it let you have it and

1464
00:56:28,470 --> 00:56:26,640
we'll continue to monitor

1465
00:56:29,589 --> 00:56:28,480
the discussion here between the launch

1466
00:56:32,630 --> 00:56:29,599
teams and

1467
00:56:33,990 --> 00:56:32,640
the centaur rocket in coast phase

1468
00:56:36,150 --> 00:56:34,000
thanks guys appreciate that update we

1469
00:56:37,670 --> 00:56:36,160
are very excited uh and as solar orbiter

1470
00:56:40,069 --> 00:56:37,680
continues pressing on to spacecraft

1471
00:56:43,990 --> 00:56:40,079
separation let's take a closer look at

1472
00:56:45,349 --> 00:56:44,000
what's ahead for this mighty explorer

1473
00:56:47,190 --> 00:56:45,359
ever since we've been pointing

1474
00:56:48,870 --> 00:56:47,200
spacecraft at the sun

1475
00:56:51,589 --> 00:56:48,880
two regions on our star have been

1476
00:56:53,670 --> 00:56:51,599
missing from satellite images

1477
00:56:55,910 --> 00:56:53,680
the sun's two poles have never been

1478
00:56:57,430 --> 00:56:55,920
mapped because all the solar images

1479
00:56:58,870 --> 00:56:57,440
we've built have remained in the

1480
00:57:01,109 --> 00:56:58,880
ecliptic plane

1481
00:57:03,190 --> 00:57:01,119
the swath of space roughly aligned with

1482
00:57:04,549 --> 00:57:03,200
the sun's equator where all the planets

1483
00:57:06,710 --> 00:57:04,559
orbit

1484
00:57:09,349 --> 00:57:06,720
a new mission from the european space

1485
00:57:11,349 --> 00:57:09,359
agency and nasa called solar orbiter

1486
00:57:14,710 --> 00:57:11,359
aims to escape this plane and take the

1487
00:57:16,630 --> 00:57:14,720
very first images of the poles

1488
00:57:18,230 --> 00:57:16,640
the planets are all moving and circling

1489
00:57:20,470 --> 00:57:18,240
the sun and so we already have some

1490
00:57:22,230 --> 00:57:20,480
velocity going one way if we want to

1491
00:57:23,990 --> 00:57:22,240
launch up out of the ecliptic it

1492
00:57:26,710 --> 00:57:24,000
requires more energy

1493
00:57:29,430 --> 00:57:26,720
to get outside the ecliptic plane solar

1494
00:57:31,349 --> 00:57:29,440
orbiter uses earth's and venus's gravity

1495
00:57:32,470 --> 00:57:31,359
to slingshot itself into a view of the

1496
00:57:34,390 --> 00:57:32,480
poles

1497
00:57:37,349 --> 00:57:34,400
the only other satellite to fly over the

1498
00:57:39,589 --> 00:57:37,359
poles was ulysses which launched in 1990

1499
00:57:41,510 --> 00:57:39,599
to study the solar atmosphere

1500
00:57:43,990 --> 00:57:41,520
but solar orbiter will be the first

1501
00:57:46,390 --> 00:57:44,000
mission to capture actual images of this

1502
00:57:47,910 --> 00:57:46,400
hard to reach region

1503
00:57:49,670 --> 00:57:47,920
scientists think the poles could be the

1504
00:57:52,549 --> 00:57:49,680
missing piece to understanding what

1505
00:57:55,270 --> 00:57:52,559
drives the sun's activity

1506
00:57:58,630 --> 00:57:55,280
every 11 years the sun's magnetic field

1507
00:58:01,109 --> 00:57:58,640
flips north becomes south and vice versa

1508
00:58:03,910 --> 00:58:01,119
this mysterious process has direct

1509
00:58:06,309 --> 00:58:03,920
effects on earth before the poles flip

1510
00:58:08,470 --> 00:58:06,319
solar activity reaches its peak the

1511
00:58:10,710 --> 00:58:08,480
number of eruptions increases sending

1512
00:58:12,870 --> 00:58:10,720
powerful bursts of solar material that

1513
00:58:16,069 --> 00:58:12,880
can potentially harm our astronauts and

1514
00:58:18,789 --> 00:58:16,079
satellites we don't really have a good

1515
00:58:21,030 --> 00:58:18,799
understanding of the global solar

1516
00:58:23,589 --> 00:58:21,040
behavior another one of the missions

1517
00:58:27,030 --> 00:58:23,599
goals is to monitor how these eruptions

1518
00:58:29,829 --> 00:58:27,040
and solar material travel through space

1519
00:58:31,990 --> 00:58:29,839
using a suite of 10 instruments solar

1520
00:58:34,710 --> 00:58:32,000
orbiter observes an active region on the

1521
00:58:36,390 --> 00:58:34,720
surface as it explodes and then also

1522
00:58:38,150 --> 00:58:36,400
takes measurements as the escaping

1523
00:58:39,510 --> 00:58:38,160
material passes directly by the

1524
00:58:41,910 --> 00:58:39,520
spacecraft

1525
00:58:44,789 --> 00:58:41,920
solar orbiter will give us a

1526
00:58:45,670 --> 00:58:44,799
comprehensive full view of the entire

1527
00:58:50,069 --> 00:58:45,680
sun

1528
00:58:52,390 --> 00:58:50,079
the entire solar system at close's

1529
00:58:55,030 --> 00:58:52,400
approach solar orbiter will be closer to

1530
00:58:58,150 --> 00:58:55,040
the sun than mercury at a mere distance

1531
00:58:59,990 --> 00:58:58,160
of 26 million miles away the ideal

1532
00:59:02,789 --> 00:59:00,000
distance to get a comprehensive view of

1533
00:59:04,789 --> 00:59:02,799
the sun and its surrounding atmosphere

1534
00:59:06,630 --> 00:59:04,799
it will fly close to the sun every six

1535
00:59:08,549 --> 00:59:06,640
months and endure temperatures more than

1536
00:59:11,109 --> 00:59:08,559
900 degrees fahrenheit

1537
00:59:13,510 --> 00:59:11,119
to survive the intense radiation a large

1538
00:59:15,910 --> 00:59:13,520
titanium shield protects the instruments

1539
00:59:17,510 --> 00:59:15,920
while a carefully orchestrated dance of

1540
00:59:19,670 --> 00:59:17,520
opening and closing eye holes in the

1541
00:59:21,270 --> 00:59:19,680
shield allows the instruments to peep

1542
00:59:23,109 --> 00:59:21,280
out at the right time

1543
00:59:25,670 --> 00:59:23,119
other instruments will directly measure

1544
00:59:26,710 --> 00:59:25,680
solar material from behind the shadow of

1545
00:59:28,789 --> 00:59:26,720
the shield

1546
00:59:30,870 --> 00:59:28,799
all of these observations will tell us

1547
00:59:33,829 --> 00:59:30,880
more about the sun than we've ever known

1548
00:59:36,390 --> 00:59:33,839
before and by the end of the seven year

1549
00:59:38,390 --> 00:59:36,400
mission we will have seen our star in a

1550
00:59:42,069 --> 00:59:38,400
completely new way

1551
00:59:43,510 --> 00:59:42,079
our understanding of the sun will change

1552
00:59:46,030 --> 00:59:43,520
dramatically

1553
00:59:50,110 --> 00:59:46,040
i will say that we are living in a

1554
01:00:01,510 --> 00:59:50,120
revolutionary moment in our field

1555
01:00:04,950 --> 01:00:03,109
so we'll get back to solar orbit in just

1556
01:00:07,190 --> 01:00:04,960
a minute but right now i'm joined by

1557
01:00:08,950 --> 01:00:07,200
kennedy space center director

1558
01:00:10,950 --> 01:00:08,960
four-time shuttle astronaut space

1559
01:00:12,950 --> 01:00:10,960
enthusiast all-around good guy second

1560
01:00:15,190 --> 01:00:12,960
longest running center director actually

1561
01:00:18,069 --> 01:00:15,200
now um coming up on the first

1562
01:00:19,670 --> 01:00:18,079
and not too long um bob cabana great to

1563
01:00:20,789 --> 01:00:19,680
be here josh hey thanks for joining us

1564
01:00:23,109 --> 01:00:20,799
appreciate you taking some time for us

1565
01:00:24,549 --> 01:00:23,119
another great launch by the ula atlas 5

1566
01:00:26,950 --> 01:00:24,559
and our launch services program here at

1567
01:00:29,109 --> 01:00:26,960
the kennedy space center so beautiful

1568
01:00:30,470 --> 01:00:29,119
man awesome so i know that you love to

1569
01:00:31,750 --> 01:00:30,480
kind of think a big picture and talk a

1570
01:00:33,030 --> 01:00:31,760
big picture when it comes to the work

1571
01:00:35,109 --> 01:00:33,040
that the kennedy space and nasa are

1572
01:00:37,510 --> 01:00:35,119
doing so how does the solar orbiter kind

1573
01:00:39,109 --> 01:00:37,520
of fit in the big picture of what nasa

1574
01:00:42,390 --> 01:00:39,119
is doing how is this

1575
01:00:44,630 --> 01:00:42,400
a part of our universe absolutely so uh

1576
01:00:47,270 --> 01:00:44,640
solar orbiter is on its way to study the

1577
01:00:49,829 --> 01:00:47,280
sun right and one of the issues that we

1578
01:00:52,950 --> 01:00:49,839
have is sending astronauts beyond our

1579
01:00:55,190 --> 01:00:52,960
home planet so with artemis we're going

1580
01:00:57,349 --> 01:00:55,200
back to the moon and the ultimate goal

1581
01:00:59,510 --> 01:00:57,359
is get on to mars right right and we

1582
01:01:01,670 --> 01:00:59,520
need to understand better the sun and

1583
01:01:03,750 --> 01:01:01,680
the environment beyond our home planet

1584
01:01:05,670 --> 01:01:03,760
in order to protect astronauts from that

1585
01:01:08,309 --> 01:01:05,680
harmful ultraviolet radiation from all

1586
01:01:10,710 --> 01:01:08,319
that's going on in space so

1587
01:01:12,789 --> 01:01:10,720
i think you know this is great this is

1588
01:01:14,549 --> 01:01:12,799
what we have as a combination of science

1589
01:01:16,470 --> 01:01:14,559
and our exploration programs working

1590
01:01:18,549 --> 01:01:16,480
together so that we understand

1591
01:01:21,589 --> 01:01:18,559
so right now at kennedy

1592
01:01:23,510 --> 01:01:21,599
i'm focused on two things first off i

1593
01:01:24,789 --> 01:01:23,520
want to see commercial crew flying i

1594
01:01:26,549 --> 01:01:24,799
want to get astronauts to the

1595
01:01:29,589 --> 01:01:26,559
international space station on a us

1596
01:01:32,150 --> 01:01:29,599
rocket from u.s soil with two partners

1597
01:01:35,270 --> 01:01:32,160
that's right both spacex and boeing you

1598
01:01:37,589 --> 01:01:35,280
got to get them both both going and then

1599
01:01:39,829 --> 01:01:37,599
you know the artemis program

1600
01:01:41,030 --> 01:01:39,839
artemis one artemis one

1601
01:01:42,630 --> 01:01:41,040
kennedy space center is going to be

1602
01:01:45,030 --> 01:01:42,640
ready for that rocket when it arrives

1603
01:01:46,470 --> 01:01:45,040
the space launch system the core stage

1604
01:01:48,390 --> 01:01:46,480
is over at the stennis space center

1605
01:01:49,750 --> 01:01:48,400
right now in the b2 test stand getting

1606
01:01:51,190 --> 01:01:49,760
ready for its green run a complete

1607
01:01:52,549 --> 01:01:51,200
testing of that rocket they're doing

1608
01:01:54,309 --> 01:01:52,559
modal testing then they're going to fire

1609
01:01:55,029 --> 01:01:54,319
the engines full firing

1610
01:01:57,109 --> 01:01:55,039
and

1611
01:01:59,589 --> 01:01:57,119
really document the rocket before they

1612
01:02:01,190 --> 01:01:59,599
ship it to us for processing here the

1613
01:02:03,589 --> 01:02:01,200
orion spacecraft the lockheed martin

1614
01:02:05,190 --> 01:02:03,599
orion spacecraft that's up at the plum

1615
01:02:07,109 --> 01:02:05,200
brook facility at the glen research

1616
01:02:08,950 --> 01:02:07,119
center up in ohio and it's going through

1617
01:02:11,270 --> 01:02:08,960
thermal back testing it's going to be

1618
01:02:14,470 --> 01:02:11,280
back here around april time frame and

1619
01:02:16,870 --> 01:02:14,480
then it'll be ready for processing so

1620
01:02:19,430 --> 01:02:16,880
we're going to get the spacecraft here

1621
01:02:21,990 --> 01:02:19,440
and then the core stage we've already

1622
01:02:24,549 --> 01:02:22,000
got solid rocket motor segments arriving

1623
01:02:26,549 --> 01:02:24,559
and we're going to send orion

1624
01:02:28,789 --> 01:02:26,559
on a test without crew

1625
01:02:29,990 --> 01:02:28,799
in and around the moon right they're not

1626
01:02:31,190 --> 01:02:30,000
going to land it's just going to be

1627
01:02:32,549 --> 01:02:31,200
without crew it's going to go around the

1628
01:02:34,789 --> 01:02:32,559
moon we're going to really document the

1629
01:02:36,309 --> 01:02:34,799
spacecraft how it operates and make sure

1630
01:02:40,309 --> 01:02:36,319
that it's safe so that we can launch

1631
01:02:42,470 --> 01:02:40,319
astronauts in 2022 to the moon and then

1632
01:02:43,910 --> 01:02:42,480
you know the goal is having

1633
01:02:46,309 --> 01:02:43,920
the next man and the first woman on the

1634
01:02:47,750 --> 01:02:46,319
moon in 2024 that's a huge challenge

1635
01:02:49,109 --> 01:02:47,760
that we've been given by the president

1636
01:02:51,430 --> 01:02:49,119
and we're going to do our very best to

1637
01:02:53,190 --> 01:02:51,440
make that happen and uh

1638
01:02:54,950 --> 01:02:53,200
with the budget we got to come and i

1639
01:02:56,870 --> 01:02:54,960
just can't wait you know the budget had

1640
01:02:58,470 --> 01:02:56,880
the news cycle today so people had got a

1641
01:03:00,150 --> 01:02:58,480
chance to see that a little bit um so

1642
01:03:02,630 --> 01:03:00,160
there was definitely a nice little bump

1643
01:03:04,069 --> 01:03:02,640
up for nasa uh from the president yeah

1644
01:03:06,069 --> 01:03:04,079
it's awesome we're super grateful for

1645
01:03:06,789 --> 01:03:06,079
that absolutely just a great confidence

1646
01:03:09,270 --> 01:03:06,799
man

1647
01:03:10,789 --> 01:03:09,280
you know we got to make this i can't

1648
01:03:12,470 --> 01:03:10,799
we got the money now we got to go do it

1649
01:03:14,309 --> 01:03:12,480
that's right we got to go do it so and

1650
01:03:16,630 --> 01:03:14,319
obviously solar orbiter playing a part

1651
01:03:18,309 --> 01:03:16,640
in that again giving us that

1652
01:03:19,910 --> 01:03:18,319
understanding of the world beyond the

1653
01:03:21,829 --> 01:03:19,920
van allen belts that are so great

1654
01:03:23,270 --> 01:03:21,839
protecting us complete package

1655
01:03:24,230 --> 01:03:23,280
so anything else coming up for you

1656
01:03:26,150 --> 01:03:24,240
things you're thinking about obviously

1657
01:03:28,549 --> 01:03:26,160
we have march 2020 coming up this year

1658
01:03:30,470 --> 01:03:28,559
yeah you know march 2020 ships here on

1659
01:03:33,510 --> 01:03:30,480
tuesday on its way to the kennedy space

1660
01:03:36,150 --> 01:03:33,520
center that's right jpl and i you know i

1661
01:03:37,829 --> 01:03:36,160
look back on the curiosity rover and i

1662
01:03:39,430 --> 01:03:37,839
thought that was so cool you know it

1663
01:03:41,109 --> 01:03:39,440
came here and i got to see it i put a

1664
01:03:42,789 --> 01:03:41,119
bunny suit on went in and saw it when it

1665
01:03:44,390 --> 01:03:42,799
was over in the phsf getting processed

1666
01:03:46,309 --> 01:03:44,400
and everything and then i went out to

1667
01:03:48,230 --> 01:03:46,319
jpl when it landed and this is going to

1668
01:03:50,150 --> 01:03:48,240
be the same thing it's another rover the

1669
01:03:51,270 --> 01:03:50,160
same size as curiosity that we're

1670
01:03:53,829 --> 01:03:51,280
putting down

1671
01:03:55,190 --> 01:03:53,839
uh on the surface of mars right and i

1672
01:03:56,789 --> 01:03:55,200
thought well it's no big deal you know

1673
01:03:58,789 --> 01:03:56,799
they're watching it it's it's all

1674
01:04:00,470 --> 01:03:58,799
delayed it's all automated it's not like

1675
01:04:01,990 --> 01:04:00,480
it it's not like human space flight

1676
01:04:03,829 --> 01:04:02,000
human in the loop and all that stuff and

1677
01:04:05,190 --> 01:04:03,839
it they're seeing it eight minutes after

1678
01:04:07,029 --> 01:04:05,200
it happened it was one of the most

1679
01:04:09,190 --> 01:04:07,039
exciting things i've ever done it was so

1680
01:04:11,190 --> 01:04:09,200
cool you know getting the reports back

1681
01:04:13,750 --> 01:04:11,200
and watching it and you know and then to

1682
01:04:15,670 --> 01:04:13,760
see you know that rover on mars we've

1683
01:04:17,029 --> 01:04:15,680
gotten some amazing imagery back now

1684
01:04:17,829 --> 01:04:17,039
we've got to get humans there you know

1685
01:04:20,309 --> 01:04:17,839
yes

1686
01:04:22,230 --> 01:04:20,319
robots rovers they're the precursors to

1687
01:04:24,549 --> 01:04:22,240
sending humans but uh you know that

1688
01:04:26,309 --> 01:04:24,559
that's the goal in the 2030s to be

1689
01:04:27,990 --> 01:04:26,319
having humans on the surface of mars i

1690
01:04:31,029 --> 01:04:28,000
can't wait yeah we're all excited for

1691
01:04:32,390 --> 01:04:31,039
that obviously uh this this rover is the

1692
01:04:34,069 --> 01:04:32,400
same size but different science

1693
01:04:35,990 --> 01:04:34,079
instruments so it's not a one for one

1694
01:04:38,150 --> 01:04:36,000
company no no i know um and we also have

1695
01:04:40,390 --> 01:04:38,160
a helicopter on board this time which is

1696
01:04:41,829 --> 01:04:40,400
super exciting i'm gonna let you get

1697
01:04:43,510 --> 01:04:41,839
back and listen into the rest of the the

1698
01:04:45,990 --> 01:04:43,520
flight here and i'm gonna send you back

1699
01:04:47,670 --> 01:04:46,000
out now to blair who's out um oh awesome

1700
01:04:49,750 --> 01:04:47,680
those nasty edge guys are really cool

1701
01:04:52,470 --> 01:04:49,760
yeah say hello blair's online now hey

1702
01:04:54,470 --> 01:04:52,480
blair hey bob i gotta tell you with

1703
01:04:56,549 --> 01:04:54,480
curiosity there were seven minutes of

1704
01:04:59,349 --> 01:04:56,559
terror with bob cabana you get seven

1705
01:05:01,589 --> 01:04:59,359
minutes of pure unadulterated enthusiasm

1706
01:05:03,589 --> 01:05:01,599
they're really exciting to hear from him

1707
01:05:05,670 --> 01:05:03,599
but we're also very excited about solar

1708
01:05:07,829 --> 01:05:05,680
orbiter tonight and before the launch i

1709
01:05:09,990 --> 01:05:07,839
had a chance to sit down

1710
01:05:12,710 --> 01:05:10,000
with cesar garcia the project manager

1711
01:05:14,789 --> 01:05:12,720
from esa for solar orbiter let's hear

1712
01:05:16,950 --> 01:05:14,799
from him

1713
01:05:19,109 --> 01:05:16,960
we're here at astrotech space operation

1714
01:05:22,309 --> 01:05:19,119
with european space agency project

1715
01:05:24,710 --> 01:05:22,319
manager for the solar orbiter caesar

1716
01:05:26,630 --> 01:05:24,720
garcia caesar thanks so much for being

1717
01:05:29,109 --> 01:05:26,640
here today thank you for having me the

1718
01:05:30,710 --> 01:05:29,119
first question i want to ask you is tell

1719
01:05:31,750 --> 01:05:30,720
us a little bit about the overall

1720
01:05:34,390 --> 01:05:31,760
mission

1721
01:05:36,630 --> 01:05:34,400
for solar orbiter okay solar orbiter

1722
01:05:38,470 --> 01:05:36,640
mission as the name shows it's a space

1723
01:05:40,870 --> 01:05:38,480
mission that will orbit

1724
01:05:43,190 --> 01:05:40,880
around the sun in ways which we have not

1725
01:05:45,510 --> 01:05:43,200
done before we will be different in that

1726
01:05:47,589 --> 01:05:45,520
we will be relatively close to the sun

1727
01:05:49,750 --> 01:05:47,599
and we will also change the orbital

1728
01:05:51,910 --> 01:05:49,760
plane so that we can observe the poles

1729
01:05:53,670 --> 01:05:51,920
of the sun we will investigate also the

1730
01:05:55,430 --> 01:05:53,680
solar wind and features close to the

1731
01:05:56,950 --> 01:05:55,440
surface of the sun

1732
01:05:58,950 --> 01:05:56,960
then they will also look into the

1733
01:06:00,789 --> 01:05:58,960
heliosphere and we all live in the

1734
01:06:03,029 --> 01:06:00,799
heliosphere of the sun

1735
01:06:05,910 --> 01:06:03,039
and finally they will investigate the

1736
01:06:09,349 --> 01:06:05,920
reasons why we have this 11-year cycle

1737
01:06:11,029 --> 01:06:09,359
and what drives these solar variability

1738
01:06:12,789 --> 01:06:11,039
some of the instruments are going to be

1739
01:06:14,789 --> 01:06:12,799
capturing images

1740
01:06:17,589 --> 01:06:14,799
what are those images going to look like

1741
01:06:20,230 --> 01:06:17,599
well we capture images in various

1742
01:06:22,309 --> 01:06:20,240
frequencies across the spectrum

1743
01:06:24,390 --> 01:06:22,319
normally science instruments or well

1744
01:06:27,190 --> 01:06:24,400
also earth observation instruments they

1745
01:06:29,510 --> 01:06:27,200
don't take what we call white light

1746
01:06:30,870 --> 01:06:29,520
pictures we try to take pictures in a

1747
01:06:32,710 --> 01:06:30,880
very small

1748
01:06:34,950 --> 01:06:32,720
frequency band and then we combine those

1749
01:06:37,430 --> 01:06:34,960
various frequencies to create broad

1750
01:06:39,430 --> 01:06:37,440
spectrum images now solar orbiter has

1751
01:06:41,750 --> 01:06:39,440
instruments in the visible

1752
01:06:43,589 --> 01:06:41,760
so the various colors of the visible a

1753
01:06:45,589 --> 01:06:43,599
little bit in the infrared also in the

1754
01:06:48,309 --> 01:06:45,599
ultraviolet spectrum

1755
01:06:50,390 --> 01:06:48,319
and all the way up to the x-rays so the

1756
01:06:52,470 --> 01:06:50,400
various instruments will detect these

1757
01:06:54,309 --> 01:06:52,480
images in different ways and what the

1758
01:06:56,549 --> 01:06:54,319
scientists do they combine various

1759
01:06:57,829 --> 01:06:56,559
frequencies to create well pretty

1760
01:06:59,270 --> 01:06:57,839
pictures that's the one we have in the

1761
01:07:00,549 --> 01:06:59,280
background here

1762
01:07:03,430 --> 01:07:00,559
that's one element and the second

1763
01:07:05,829 --> 01:07:03,440
element is that the various instruments

1764
01:07:07,349 --> 01:07:05,839
they have different fields of view

1765
01:07:09,670 --> 01:07:07,359
some of the instruments will be able to

1766
01:07:11,109 --> 01:07:09,680
capture the complete solar disk

1767
01:07:13,510 --> 01:07:11,119
and at the same time they will be able

1768
01:07:15,029 --> 01:07:13,520
to look with very high resolution into

1769
01:07:16,230 --> 01:07:15,039
very small portions

1770
01:07:17,510 --> 01:07:16,240
of the sand

1771
01:07:18,870 --> 01:07:17,520
some of the instruments will be looking

1772
01:07:21,510 --> 01:07:18,880
at the rim

1773
01:07:23,829 --> 01:07:21,520
or to make things more interesting

1774
01:07:25,430 --> 01:07:23,839
once one of the instruments detects a

1775
01:07:27,109 --> 01:07:25,440
feature of interest he will send

1776
01:07:29,349 --> 01:07:27,119
automatically a trigger to the other

1777
01:07:31,430 --> 01:07:29,359
instruments so that they can also change

1778
01:07:34,309 --> 01:07:31,440
mode of operation and focus on that

1779
01:07:36,789 --> 01:07:34,319
specific feature to learn more about it

1780
01:07:39,430 --> 01:07:36,799
and if that involves for instance the

1781
01:07:40,630 --> 01:07:39,440
ejection of material or a change to the

1782
01:07:43,029 --> 01:07:40,640
solar wind

1783
01:07:44,710 --> 01:07:43,039
when that happens on the spacecraft then

1784
01:07:48,069 --> 01:07:44,720
also the in-situ instruments will be

1785
01:07:50,789 --> 01:07:48,079
able to react and to sense that specific

1786
01:07:52,549 --> 01:07:50,799
feature and that combination of things

1787
01:07:54,549 --> 01:07:52,559
which happen on the surface or close to

1788
01:07:56,230 --> 01:07:54,559
the surface of the sun and then

1789
01:07:57,589 --> 01:07:56,240
at the location later on at the location

1790
01:07:59,750 --> 01:07:57,599
of the spacecraft

1791
01:08:01,510 --> 01:07:59,760
is one of the key features and unique

1792
01:08:03,190 --> 01:08:01,520
features of solar orbiter

1793
01:08:05,270 --> 01:08:03,200
there are a lot of fascinating and

1794
01:08:06,950 --> 01:08:05,280
important instruments on the spacecraft

1795
01:08:08,950 --> 01:08:06,960
if the scientists see something

1796
01:08:11,029 --> 01:08:08,960
interesting during an observation do

1797
01:08:11,990 --> 01:08:11,039
they have the ability to adapt and and

1798
01:08:14,390 --> 01:08:12,000
sort of

1799
01:08:16,870 --> 01:08:14,400
reorient to to take a look at that

1800
01:08:19,269 --> 01:08:16,880
interesting event yeah they they want to

1801
01:08:21,430 --> 01:08:19,279
maximize the opportunities of course and

1802
01:08:22,950 --> 01:08:21,440
there are several ways of doing that

1803
01:08:24,470 --> 01:08:22,960
one way is something that we call the

1804
01:08:25,829 --> 01:08:24,480
short-term planning

1805
01:08:27,749 --> 01:08:25,839
as opposed to long-term planning

1806
01:08:30,309 --> 01:08:27,759
long-term planning is what the

1807
01:08:32,550 --> 01:08:30,319
scientists do they plan every instrument

1808
01:08:33,749 --> 01:08:32,560
every note of operation like six months

1809
01:08:36,309 --> 01:08:33,759
in advance

1810
01:08:39,030 --> 01:08:36,319
however every 24 hours if they see a

1811
01:08:41,030 --> 01:08:39,040
particular feature or if there is a

1812
01:08:43,430 --> 01:08:41,040
signal coming from a different space

1813
01:08:45,749 --> 01:08:43,440
mission or from the ground then they can

1814
01:08:47,430 --> 01:08:45,759
change in very short time what the

1815
01:08:49,430 --> 01:08:47,440
instruments will be doing in the next

1816
01:08:51,349 --> 01:08:49,440
observation day

1817
01:08:52,870 --> 01:08:51,359
it must feel really good now because

1818
01:08:54,309 --> 01:08:52,880
everything clearly is here on the

1819
01:08:56,470 --> 01:08:54,319
spacecraft and

1820
01:08:58,870 --> 01:08:56,480
ready to go it's got to be a good sense

1821
01:09:00,950 --> 01:08:58,880
of accomplishment i think so i think

1822
01:09:02,550 --> 01:09:00,960
that uh overall you know when you

1823
01:09:05,189 --> 01:09:02,560
develop a space mission there are always

1824
01:09:06,709 --> 01:09:05,199
many challenges there are moments

1825
01:09:08,229 --> 01:09:06,719
where you don't really know if there is

1826
01:09:09,510 --> 01:09:08,239
a technical solution for the problems

1827
01:09:11,030 --> 01:09:09,520
you're facing

1828
01:09:14,229 --> 01:09:11,040
then you know it takes time it takes

1829
01:09:16,149 --> 01:09:14,239
effort it takes teamwork and now once

1830
01:09:18,309 --> 01:09:16,159
you move to the launch space

1831
01:09:20,630 --> 01:09:18,319
then it's like an army i mean different

1832
01:09:23,110 --> 01:09:20,640
armies they are sort of coming together

1833
01:09:24,550 --> 01:09:23,120
and sometimes people who you never met

1834
01:09:25,749 --> 01:09:24,560
but they've been working on this mission

1835
01:09:27,669 --> 01:09:25,759
for years

1836
01:09:29,910 --> 01:09:27,679
then you get to meet those people and

1837
01:09:31,349 --> 01:09:29,920
then you you realize that everybody's

1838
01:09:33,269 --> 01:09:31,359
working to the same goal and i think

1839
01:09:37,749 --> 01:09:33,279
this yeah it's a real sense of

1840
01:09:41,349 --> 01:09:39,749
well and here we have it a successful

1841
01:09:44,229 --> 01:09:41,359
launch and that team that caesar

1842
01:09:46,709 --> 01:09:44,239
mentioned is uh very proud and excited

1843
01:09:49,669 --> 01:09:46,719
at this time and uh we just want to

1844
01:09:50,789 --> 01:09:49,679
congratulate them and back to you joshua

1845
01:09:52,070 --> 01:09:50,799
take it away

1846
01:09:53,510 --> 01:09:52,080
hey thanks blair yeah obviously that

1847
01:09:55,270 --> 01:09:53,520
international collaboration is such a

1848
01:09:56,870 --> 01:09:55,280
theme running throughout this program

1849
01:09:58,390 --> 01:09:56,880
and throughout this entire mission we're

1850
01:09:59,750 --> 01:09:58,400
glad to have them on board we did want

1851
01:10:01,350 --> 01:09:59,760
to kind of cycle back again and go

1852
01:10:02,870 --> 01:10:01,360
through the fact that this afternoon

1853
01:10:04,709 --> 01:10:02,880
this evening there was a northrop

1854
01:10:06,630 --> 01:10:04,719
grumman antary scheduled to launch and

1855
01:10:08,550 --> 01:10:06,640
it was scrubbed

1856
01:10:10,790 --> 01:10:08,560
after off nominal readings from a ground

1857
01:10:12,310 --> 01:10:10,800
support sensor northrop grumman and nasa

1858
01:10:14,790 --> 01:10:12,320
have said the next launch attempt to

1859
01:10:16,870 --> 01:10:14,800
know earlier than february 13th at 406

1860
01:10:19,030 --> 01:10:16,880
pm eastern time due to unfavorable

1861
01:10:20,630 --> 01:10:19,040
weather forecast over the next two days

1862
01:10:22,950 --> 01:10:20,640
and time required to address the ground

1863
01:10:24,790 --> 01:10:22,960
support issue nasa tv coverage of the

1864
01:10:27,189 --> 01:10:24,800
launch will begin at about 3 30 pm

1865
01:10:29,990 --> 01:10:27,199
eastern time and teams will refresh 24

1866
01:10:31,510 --> 01:10:30,000
hour late load cargo the day before the

1867
01:10:33,270 --> 01:10:31,520
antares rocket and cygnus spacecraft

1868
01:10:35,110 --> 01:10:33,280
remain healthy launch thursday would

1869
01:10:36,790 --> 01:10:35,120
result in a capture of cygnus on

1870
01:10:39,510 --> 01:10:36,800
saturday february 15th for more

1871
01:10:41,590 --> 01:10:39,520
information visit nasa.gov northrop

1872
01:10:43,110 --> 01:10:41,600
grumman and nasa.gov

1873
01:10:44,790 --> 01:10:43,120
we're going to send you back over now to

1874
01:10:47,270 --> 01:10:44,800
mick and daryl who are going to take you

1875
01:10:48,870 --> 01:10:47,280
through spacecraft separation so this is

1876
01:10:51,030 --> 01:10:48,880
uh still not quite the end of the

1877
01:10:52,630 --> 01:10:51,040
mission today but another huge milestone

1878
01:10:55,030 --> 01:10:52,640
daryl make take it away that's right

1879
01:10:55,830 --> 01:10:55,040
joshua it's a big moment that everybody

1880
01:11:03,590 --> 01:10:55,840
is

1881
01:11:05,590 --> 01:11:03,600
woltman i'm daryl nail 25 years as a

1882
01:11:07,189 --> 01:11:05,600
vehicle systems engineer so he's got all

1883
01:11:08,790 --> 01:11:07,199
the knowledge to help break this down

1884
01:11:10,390 --> 01:11:08,800
and i will tell you it's exciting every

1885
01:11:13,110 --> 01:11:10,400
time we launch the next mission is the

1886
01:11:14,790 --> 01:11:13,120
most important and uh tonight was uh

1887
01:11:15,990 --> 01:11:14,800
great to see so order get off the ground

1888
01:11:17,990 --> 01:11:16,000
and like you said we still have some

1889
01:11:20,630 --> 01:11:18,000
things to do to make sure it's a mission

1890
01:11:22,390 --> 01:11:20,640
success but we're moving along and

1891
01:11:23,990 --> 01:11:22,400
things are looking really well centaur

1892
01:11:25,910 --> 01:11:24,000
is in its

1893
01:11:27,510 --> 01:11:25,920
phases of settling propellants and

1894
01:11:28,390 --> 01:11:27,520
getting ready for that main engine start

1895
01:11:29,990 --> 01:11:28,400
too

1896
01:11:32,310 --> 01:11:30,000
coming up so uh things are looking

1897
01:11:33,750 --> 01:11:32,320
really good yeah and he's not just uh

1898
01:11:36,070 --> 01:11:33,760
just saying that folks i literally got

1899
01:11:38,070 --> 01:11:36,080
to watch him get a little giddy as uh as

1900
01:11:39,510 --> 01:11:38,080
we're getting ready to lift off so it's

1901
01:11:41,430 --> 01:11:39,520
an exciting moment

1902
01:11:43,910 --> 01:11:41,440
we are in that coast phase we've been in

1903
01:11:46,390 --> 01:11:43,920
this coast phase um for quite a period

1904
01:11:48,229 --> 01:11:46,400
of time now we've got a few minutes left

1905
01:11:50,070 --> 01:11:48,239
in it and as you mentioned before you

1906
01:11:52,470 --> 01:11:50,080
can see in this graphical representation

1907
01:11:55,110 --> 01:11:52,480
that um there are thrusters that are

1908
01:11:57,910 --> 01:11:55,120
being fired from time to time

1909
01:11:59,830 --> 01:11:57,920
to settle that fuel inside of uh

1910
01:12:01,910 --> 01:11:59,840
inside of the centaur and that will

1911
01:12:04,470 --> 01:12:01,920
allow it to restart it's really one of

1912
01:12:07,430 --> 01:12:04,480
the keys to this vehicle and this

1913
01:12:09,510 --> 01:12:07,440
vehicle in fact is pretty reliable it's

1914
01:12:11,990 --> 01:12:09,520
gotten really good at doing this and it

1915
01:12:14,709 --> 01:12:12,000
goes all the way back to the 1960s yeah

1916
01:12:17,189 --> 01:12:14,719
centaur was designed uh for multiple uh

1917
01:12:19,750 --> 01:12:17,199
engine starts and and missions like this

1918
01:12:20,870 --> 01:12:19,760
uh so it's a very reliable uh vehicle to

1919
01:12:23,110 --> 01:12:20,880
get that way

1920
01:12:24,950 --> 01:12:23,120
we're seeing now that we have pre-chill

1921
01:12:26,390 --> 01:12:24,960
down on the engine which means the

1922
01:12:28,550 --> 01:12:26,400
engine is chilling down and getting

1923
01:12:31,189 --> 01:12:28,560
ready for fuels to

1924
01:12:33,350 --> 01:12:31,199
get through and start up ignition the

1925
01:12:35,910 --> 01:12:33,360
igniters would fire and we would get

1926
01:12:38,149 --> 01:12:35,920
mess two or standing by for that call

1927
01:12:39,350 --> 01:12:38,159
right now we should be coming up on main

1928
01:12:41,350 --> 01:12:39,360
engine start

1929
01:12:42,870 --> 01:12:41,360
fairly shortly

1930
01:12:46,390 --> 01:12:42,880
chamber pressure looks good so we just

1931
01:12:48,470 --> 01:12:46,400
heard that we have full thrust and

1932
01:12:51,910 --> 01:12:48,480
main engine has started and body rates

1933
01:12:55,350 --> 01:12:51,920
look good for this seven minute burn of

1934
01:12:58,149 --> 01:12:55,360
the centaur engine this is a key burn

1935
01:12:59,910 --> 01:12:58,159
as it re-fires that engine and starts to

1936
01:13:02,470 --> 01:12:59,920
get

1937
01:13:03,110 --> 01:13:02,480
into that transfer orbit right and it's

1938
01:13:07,910 --> 01:13:03,120
a

1939
01:13:09,830 --> 01:13:07,920
now it needs to get on to its

1940
01:13:11,590 --> 01:13:09,840
destination yeah it's gonna it's gonna

1941
01:13:14,229 --> 01:13:11,600
fire and get us into that transfer

1942
01:13:15,750 --> 01:13:14,239
trajectory uh to get uh soul orbiter on

1943
01:13:19,750 --> 01:13:15,760
its way to the sun which is very

1944
01:13:21,830 --> 01:13:19,760
important uh for us so once this burn uh

1945
01:13:24,070 --> 01:13:21,840
happens we get through this successful

1946
01:13:26,229 --> 01:13:24,080
seven minute burn uh we'll be coming up

1947
01:13:28,550 --> 01:13:26,239
on spacecraft separation which will be

1948
01:13:29,750 --> 01:13:28,560
another major milestone for us

1949
01:13:32,390 --> 01:13:29,760
however

1950
01:13:34,470 --> 01:13:32,400
we will not be celebrating quite yet

1951
01:13:36,709 --> 01:13:34,480
solar orbiter has to get moving on its

1952
01:13:38,790 --> 01:13:36,719
way and we have to make sure we acquire

1953
01:13:40,630 --> 01:13:38,800
signal from the satellite which will

1954
01:13:42,790 --> 01:13:40,640
happen about four minutes after

1955
01:13:44,709 --> 01:13:42,800
separation so that'll be a major

1956
01:13:47,030 --> 01:13:44,719
milestone for the spacecraft crew and

1957
01:13:49,430 --> 01:13:47,040
the launch team but this milestone of

1958
01:13:51,910 --> 01:13:49,440
main engine start and this burn second

1959
01:13:54,229 --> 01:13:51,920
burn that we refer to is a

1960
01:13:56,870 --> 01:13:54,239
major step in the right direction and of

1961
01:13:59,750 --> 01:13:56,880
course this is a kind of the

1962
01:14:01,669 --> 01:13:59,760
the safe period of this entire

1963
01:14:03,510 --> 01:14:01,679
launch and mission the toughest part is

1964
01:14:08,070 --> 01:14:03,520
getting it off the ground we go back to

1965
01:14:10,310 --> 01:14:08,080
1103 p.m eastern time when it lifted off

1966
01:14:12,229 --> 01:14:10,320
you know that is a that is a big moment

1967
01:14:15,270 --> 01:14:12,239
to see that thing coming off that pad

1968
01:14:16,709 --> 01:14:15,280
riding a controlled explosion on

1969
01:14:19,270 --> 01:14:16,719
the team does a very good job they make

1970
01:14:20,790 --> 01:14:19,280
it look easy uh matter of fact i as we

1971
01:14:22,790 --> 01:14:20,800
heard from scott messer earlier this was

1972
01:14:25,189 --> 01:14:22,800
the quietest count he's heard in in

1973
01:14:27,510 --> 01:14:25,199
quite a while and you know that

1974
01:14:29,510 --> 01:14:27,520
is a just a shout out to the teams and

1975
01:14:31,430 --> 01:14:29,520
how well they have done all the

1976
01:14:35,189 --> 01:14:31,440
collaboration between the international

1977
01:14:38,310 --> 01:14:35,199
partner the united space force nasa

1978
01:14:41,189 --> 01:14:38,320
lsp ula all the teams working together

1979
01:14:44,310 --> 01:14:41,199
to make sure the count happened on time

1980
01:14:45,830 --> 01:14:44,320
and the vehicle got off at 1103

1981
01:14:48,310 --> 01:14:45,840
specifically at the beginning of our

1982
01:14:50,149 --> 01:14:48,320
window that is just uh that's always

1983
01:14:53,189 --> 01:14:50,159
exciting to me to watch that

1984
01:14:55,750 --> 01:14:53,199
every launch is just amazing to

1985
01:14:57,830 --> 01:14:55,760
see that fire and lift off

1986
01:15:00,709 --> 01:14:57,840
we've been flying for about 45 and a

1987
01:15:01,830 --> 01:15:00,719
half minutes uh to this point in time

1988
01:15:03,830 --> 01:15:01,840
and

1989
01:15:05,510 --> 01:15:03,840
ula managers have been

1990
01:15:08,630 --> 01:15:05,520
working this launch

1991
01:15:11,350 --> 01:15:08,640
for that entire time and as mick said

1992
01:15:14,229 --> 01:15:11,360
they are continuing to to be very

1993
01:15:16,790 --> 01:15:14,239
diligent in tracking the telemetry and

1994
01:15:17,830 --> 01:15:16,800
tracking the flight of the centaur upper

1995
01:15:20,149 --> 01:15:17,840
stage

1996
01:15:23,910 --> 01:15:20,159
it is in the midst of a seven minute

1997
01:15:25,990 --> 01:15:23,920
burn a few minutes left in that one as

1998
01:15:29,030 --> 01:15:26,000
it positions itself

1999
01:15:31,189 --> 01:15:29,040
to get into that proper orbit

2000
01:15:34,390 --> 01:15:31,199
it is going to use a gravity assist

2001
01:15:36,950 --> 01:15:34,400
eventually much later down the road

2002
01:15:39,270 --> 01:15:36,960
but that is part of the deal in order to

2003
01:15:42,070 --> 01:15:39,280
get this thing close to the sun

2004
01:15:44,070 --> 01:15:42,080
so it can start gathering its data

2005
01:15:46,470 --> 01:15:44,080
it's got a lot of interesting

2006
01:15:47,990 --> 01:15:46,480
instruments on board in particular you

2007
01:15:49,910 --> 01:15:48,000
know one of the ones that i find one of

2008
01:15:53,030 --> 01:15:49,920
the aspects of the spacecraft that i

2009
01:15:55,030 --> 01:15:53,040
find most interesting is its ability to

2010
01:15:56,790 --> 01:15:55,040
open up little ports

2011
01:15:58,790 --> 01:15:56,800
on its heat shield

2012
01:16:00,950 --> 01:15:58,800
is going to get so close to the sun it's

2013
01:16:01,830 --> 01:16:00,960
going to point its heat shield at the

2014
01:16:03,910 --> 01:16:01,840
sun

2015
01:16:06,550 --> 01:16:03,920
but it's got little ports that it opens

2016
01:16:08,470 --> 01:16:06,560
up inside the space inside the the heat

2017
01:16:10,070 --> 01:16:08,480
shield to allow the sun to come through

2018
01:16:11,910 --> 01:16:10,080
which is an amazing thing it's got to

2019
01:16:13,910 --> 01:16:11,920
cool the instruments because yeah it's

2020
01:16:15,270 --> 01:16:13,920
so incredibly hot yeah the heat shield

2021
01:16:17,189 --> 01:16:15,280
is a is a

2022
01:16:18,950 --> 01:16:17,199
specific part of this spacecraft that's

2023
01:16:20,149 --> 01:16:18,960
required as you said it gets really

2024
01:16:22,310 --> 01:16:20,159
close to the sun you know a couple

2025
01:16:24,390 --> 01:16:22,320
million mile miles which is close for a

2026
01:16:25,990 --> 01:16:24,400
spacecraft and um

2027
01:16:27,669 --> 01:16:26,000
but those little apertures inside the

2028
01:16:30,070 --> 01:16:27,679
heat shield get opened at particular

2029
01:16:32,070 --> 01:16:30,080
times to catch things catch sunlight

2030
01:16:33,750 --> 01:16:32,080
catch ultraviolets test things in the

2031
01:16:35,430 --> 01:16:33,760
instrument and help protect the

2032
01:16:37,590 --> 01:16:35,440
instrument so the the satellite

2033
01:16:39,350 --> 01:16:37,600
basically rides around the sun with that

2034
01:16:40,229 --> 01:16:39,360
heat shield pointing at the sun at all

2035
01:16:42,149 --> 01:16:40,239
times

2036
01:16:43,590 --> 01:16:42,159
another unique feature for myself as an

2037
01:16:45,910 --> 01:16:43,600
engineer that i thought was really neat

2038
01:16:47,189 --> 01:16:45,920
of this satellite was the solar panels

2039
01:16:49,750 --> 01:16:47,199
when they come out

2040
01:16:51,350 --> 01:16:49,760
normally we see on on a satellite

2041
01:16:53,750 --> 01:16:51,360
solar panels come out and they're pretty

2042
01:16:55,830 --> 01:16:53,760
flat in order to get sunlight

2043
01:16:57,750 --> 01:16:55,840
to power the systems right

2044
01:16:59,510 --> 01:16:57,760
charge the batteries and and do all the

2045
01:17:00,630 --> 01:16:59,520
other things on board

2046
01:17:02,870 --> 01:17:00,640
these

2047
01:17:04,470 --> 01:17:02,880
because we're so close to the sun

2048
01:17:07,430 --> 01:17:04,480
they actually have the team actually has

2049
01:17:11,110 --> 01:17:07,440
to turn these uh solar panels almost at

2050
01:17:12,550 --> 01:17:11,120
78 degrees uh to keep them from from

2051
01:17:15,350 --> 01:17:12,560
getting too hot

2052
01:17:17,030 --> 01:17:15,360
and you know collecting but they have as

2053
01:17:19,590 --> 01:17:17,040
ian walters from airbus said who

2054
01:17:21,590 --> 01:17:19,600
designed this uh spacecraft uh said we

2055
01:17:23,270 --> 01:17:21,600
do not have a problem with power on the

2056
01:17:24,950 --> 01:17:23,280
solar panels

2057
01:17:26,870 --> 01:17:24,960
exactly we have a problem with heat so

2058
01:17:28,470 --> 01:17:26,880
uh that's a unique uh thing about the

2059
01:17:30,390 --> 01:17:28,480
spacecraft that i find interesting

2060
01:17:33,110 --> 01:17:30,400
absolutely just a little less than two

2061
01:17:35,910 --> 01:17:33,120
minutes left in this burn the second

2062
01:17:38,229 --> 01:17:35,920
burn of the centaur upper stage as

2063
01:17:39,590 --> 01:17:38,239
it gets ready to transfer into its new

2064
01:17:41,510 --> 01:17:39,600
orbit

2065
01:17:43,270 --> 01:17:41,520
is an exciting time

2066
01:17:45,030 --> 01:17:43,280
we certainly know that the team is

2067
01:17:47,350 --> 01:17:45,040
anticipating that

2068
01:17:49,430 --> 01:17:47,360
cut off of that engine but also more

2069
01:17:51,350 --> 01:17:49,440
importantly looking for

2070
01:17:53,430 --> 01:17:51,360
the separation of the spacecraft which

2071
01:17:56,950 --> 01:17:53,440
is coming up just a few minutes after

2072
01:17:59,030 --> 01:17:56,960
that and then followed by hopefully some

2073
01:18:00,790 --> 01:17:59,040
signal acquisition absolutely the

2074
01:18:02,950 --> 01:18:00,800
spacecraft tells us

2075
01:18:04,709 --> 01:18:02,960
i'm here it's kind of opened its eyes so

2076
01:18:06,229 --> 01:18:04,719
to speak right and says uh i'm in

2077
01:18:07,750 --> 01:18:06,239
position i'm heading the right direction

2078
01:18:09,189 --> 01:18:07,760
yeah the spacecraft team knows that the

2079
01:18:11,110 --> 01:18:09,199
satellite's where it's supposed to be

2080
01:18:13,350 --> 01:18:11,120
and and that the atlas centaurs

2081
01:18:15,110 --> 01:18:13,360
delivered it on the proper orbit as you

2082
01:18:16,470 --> 01:18:15,120
were talking earlier that precise orbit

2083
01:18:18,709 --> 01:18:16,480
that we need you know we've had two

2084
01:18:20,870 --> 01:18:18,719
burns now this is the second burn and

2085
01:18:23,669 --> 01:18:20,880
that second burn of this centaur will

2086
01:18:25,270 --> 01:18:23,679
put it in that orbit uh trajectory or

2087
01:18:27,350 --> 01:18:25,280
transfer trajectory that the team is

2088
01:18:29,910 --> 01:18:27,360
looking for so acquisition of signal

2089
01:18:30,709 --> 01:18:29,920
after sep is is very important

2090
01:18:32,790 --> 01:18:30,719
but

2091
01:18:35,110 --> 01:18:32,800
we're still still getting there so 49

2092
01:18:37,270 --> 01:18:35,120
minutes into flight and things are going

2093
01:18:38,790 --> 01:18:37,280
well uh centaur pressures on the engine

2094
01:18:40,709 --> 01:18:38,800
look really good

2095
01:18:42,470 --> 01:18:40,719
engine continues to perform normally and

2096
01:18:44,550 --> 01:18:42,480
the rcs thrusters

2097
01:18:46,790 --> 01:18:44,560
continue to keep centaur where it needs

2098
01:18:48,950 --> 01:18:46,800
to be a little less than a minute until

2099
01:18:51,669 --> 01:18:48,960
main engine cutoff you can see in the

2100
01:18:54,229 --> 01:18:51,679
graphical representation this centaur

2101
01:18:56,310 --> 01:18:54,239
continues to fly with solar orbiter at

2102
01:18:58,310 --> 01:18:56,320
the very front of it

2103
01:19:01,350 --> 01:18:58,320
that rl10

2104
01:19:03,750 --> 01:19:01,360
firing behind it as it goes and just

2105
01:19:06,790 --> 01:19:03,760
about 20 seconds now until we see that

2106
01:19:08,950 --> 01:19:06,800
engine cut off and go into that next

2107
01:19:11,590 --> 01:19:08,960
coast phase so let's

2108
01:19:13,350 --> 01:19:11,600
watch now and listen in as they get

2109
01:19:16,550 --> 01:19:13,360
close to this moment

2110
01:19:18,870 --> 01:19:16,560
this is the again the uh sec the center

2111
01:19:20,950 --> 01:19:18,880
our second main engine cutting nominal

2112
01:19:22,709 --> 01:19:20,960
body rates look good

2113
01:19:24,630 --> 01:19:22,719
so yeah centaur continues to perform

2114
01:19:26,310 --> 01:19:24,640
normally body rates on centaur look

2115
01:19:29,030 --> 01:19:26,320
really good hanging by for kind of

2116
01:19:35,110 --> 01:19:29,040
standing by here for a main engine cut

2117
01:19:39,669 --> 01:19:37,750
and we have miko managing cut off

2118
01:19:40,950 --> 01:19:39,679
and there you go body rate stamped out

2119
01:19:42,630 --> 01:19:40,960
nicely yeah i'm going to cut off

2120
01:19:44,390 --> 01:19:42,640
transient main engine cut off from the

2121
01:19:45,990 --> 01:19:44,400
centaur that's great that second burn

2122
01:19:47,669 --> 01:19:46,000
has performed

2123
01:19:49,590 --> 01:19:47,679
so now we're about three minutes away

2124
01:19:51,750 --> 01:19:49,600
from spacecraft separation our next big

2125
01:19:53,990 --> 01:19:51,760
milestone so i can tell you the the

2126
01:19:56,310 --> 01:19:54,000
launch team is very happy on how centaur

2127
01:19:58,550 --> 01:19:56,320
performed and looking at the data

2128
01:20:00,790 --> 01:19:58,560
centaur performed very well on this

2129
01:20:02,950 --> 01:20:00,800
second burn getting solar orbiter onto

2130
01:20:04,550 --> 01:20:02,960
that transfer trajectory so

2131
01:20:06,149 --> 01:20:04,560
spacecraft separation will be our next

2132
01:20:07,830 --> 01:20:06,159
milestone darrell yeah and if we can

2133
01:20:09,270 --> 01:20:07,840
take a shot of the mission director

2134
01:20:11,110 --> 01:20:09,280
center here we had a little bit of a

2135
01:20:13,270 --> 01:20:11,120
celebration after that main engine

2136
01:20:15,430 --> 01:20:13,280
cutoff i believe that was probably the

2137
01:20:16,790 --> 01:20:15,440
spacecraft team back there that was

2138
01:20:18,229 --> 01:20:16,800
cheering i think it might have been a

2139
01:20:19,669 --> 01:20:18,239
little bit of both a little bit about a

2140
01:20:21,830 --> 01:20:19,679
little bit of both because

2141
01:20:24,310 --> 01:20:21,840
centaur performs very well looking at

2142
01:20:26,229 --> 01:20:24,320
the telemetry data here and uh so the

2143
01:20:28,310 --> 01:20:26,239
launch vehicle team is very happy with

2144
01:20:31,350 --> 01:20:28,320
rl10 and centaur performance tonight a

2145
01:20:33,910 --> 01:20:31,360
lot of pride and deservedly so

2146
01:20:37,030 --> 01:20:33,920
talk about now what what the space uh

2147
01:20:40,070 --> 01:20:37,040
what the centaur is doing as it prepares

2148
01:20:42,470 --> 01:20:40,080
for this um the separation event yeah

2149
01:20:45,030 --> 01:20:42,480
centaur's maneuvering into position uh

2150
01:20:45,750 --> 01:20:45,040
getting ready to separate spacecraft on

2151
01:20:48,310 --> 01:20:45,760
the

2152
01:20:50,390 --> 01:20:48,320
trajectory that it needs to

2153
01:20:52,550 --> 01:20:50,400
head off into this transfer trajectory

2154
01:20:54,070 --> 01:20:52,560
so the rcs thrusters and everything are

2155
01:20:56,310 --> 01:20:54,080
moving the vehicle around since body

2156
01:20:58,390 --> 01:20:56,320
rates have slowed down and it's

2157
01:21:01,510 --> 01:20:58,400
positioning itself in for

2158
01:21:04,070 --> 01:21:01,520
to deliver solar orbiter onto

2159
01:21:05,750 --> 01:21:04,080
its transfer trajectory

2160
01:21:07,830 --> 01:21:05,760
and you can see in that representation

2161
01:21:12,070 --> 01:21:07,840
how it is maneuvering to get into that

2162
01:21:13,590 --> 01:21:12,080
position just a few seconds away from

2163
01:21:16,870 --> 01:21:13,600
that

2164
01:21:17,750 --> 01:21:16,880
separation now in fact just less than a

2165
01:21:21,830 --> 01:21:17,760
minute

2166
01:21:24,550 --> 01:21:21,840
the centaur continues to perform well

2167
01:21:28,149 --> 01:21:24,560
and it is positioning itself at this

2168
01:21:29,350 --> 01:21:28,159
very moment um

2169
01:21:34,870 --> 01:21:29,360
the

2170
01:21:36,709 --> 01:21:34,880
procedure that takes place in order for

2171
01:21:40,310 --> 01:21:36,719
this spacecraft to separate from the

2172
01:21:42,149 --> 01:21:40,320
centaur well first thing is as we said

2173
01:21:44,310 --> 01:21:42,159
main engine start main engine cut off on

2174
01:21:45,910 --> 01:21:44,320
that second burn was very important uh

2175
01:21:48,310 --> 01:21:45,920
to get us where we need to be now

2176
01:21:50,229 --> 01:21:48,320
centaur has positioned itself and as you

2177
01:21:52,870 --> 01:21:50,239
can see in the sdk firing there the

2178
01:21:54,950 --> 01:21:52,880
graphic the rcs continues to fire to

2179
01:21:57,590 --> 01:21:54,960
settle out the body rates and the

2180
01:21:59,430 --> 01:21:57,600
centaur to get it into position

2181
01:22:02,629 --> 01:21:59,440
and a stable mode

2182
01:22:04,550 --> 01:22:02,639
to separate this spacecraft so ra the

2183
01:22:07,270 --> 01:22:04,560
erection control system continues to

2184
01:22:09,350 --> 01:22:07,280
fire at a 50 percent duty cycle to keep

2185
01:22:11,350 --> 01:22:09,360
that vehicle stable and where it needs

2186
01:22:13,590 --> 01:22:11,360
to be to separate

2187
01:22:15,590 --> 01:22:13,600
a spacecraft's sep we want to know all

2188
01:22:17,830 --> 01:22:15,600
the body rates out so that we can make

2189
01:22:19,510 --> 01:22:17,840
sure that we get good separation and no

2190
01:22:20,790 --> 01:22:19,520
tip off just a few seconds away from

2191
01:22:23,030 --> 01:22:20,800
separation you're about to see some

2192
01:22:24,950 --> 01:22:23,040
celebration here at the various control

2193
01:22:27,990 --> 01:22:24,960
rooms across the cape and uh across the

2194
01:22:30,550 --> 01:22:28,000
country the solar orbiter spacecraft

2195
01:22:33,189 --> 01:22:30,560
so we just heard from patrick moore

2196
01:22:35,030 --> 01:22:33,199
indication of separation that is a huge

2197
01:22:37,110 --> 01:22:35,040
milestone for the soul orbiter team

2198
01:22:39,030 --> 01:22:37,120
daryl as you see in the asoc there they

2199
01:22:40,470 --> 01:22:39,040
are celebrating yeah and they were

2200
01:22:42,229 --> 01:22:40,480
celebrating here in the mission

2201
01:22:45,430 --> 01:22:42,239
director's center as well you can see

2202
01:22:48,390 --> 01:22:45,440
some hugs and handshakes uh going around

2203
01:22:49,910 --> 01:22:48,400
this is a of course a big mission

2204
01:22:52,310 --> 01:22:49,920
for ula

2205
01:22:55,430 --> 01:22:52,320
especially given the collaboration that

2206
01:22:57,189 --> 01:22:55,440
took place you're talking about 22

2207
01:23:00,709 --> 01:22:57,199
different countries

2208
01:23:03,669 --> 01:23:00,719
that were involved in this spacecraft

2209
01:23:05,350 --> 01:23:03,679
the solar orbiter we're talking about

2210
01:23:08,550 --> 01:23:05,360
a decade or more

2211
01:23:10,790 --> 01:23:08,560
in the planning so certainly united

2212
01:23:12,310 --> 01:23:10,800
launch alliance has a lot to be happy

2213
01:23:14,629 --> 01:23:12,320
about as they celebrate just a couple

2214
01:23:16,550 --> 01:23:14,639
miles from us there uh the folks there

2215
01:23:19,189 --> 01:23:16,560
standing up from their console that's

2216
01:23:22,229 --> 01:23:19,199
tim dunn and i believe in the lower

2217
01:23:23,910 --> 01:23:22,239
left corner there nasa's launch manager

2218
01:23:25,430 --> 01:23:23,920
launch director and uh

2219
01:23:28,229 --> 01:23:25,440
give me some good handshakes all the way

2220
01:23:30,629 --> 01:23:28,239
around uh for their hard work this

2221
01:23:32,149 --> 01:23:30,639
evening late in the evening

2222
01:23:34,070 --> 01:23:32,159
yeah the team the launch team is very

2223
01:23:36,390 --> 01:23:34,080
happy i've been looking at the data for

2224
01:23:38,390 --> 01:23:36,400
centaur and the quick look looks like

2225
01:23:41,030 --> 01:23:38,400
centaur performed very well well within

2226
01:23:43,910 --> 01:23:41,040
our pre-flight predictions to get the

2227
01:23:45,270 --> 01:23:43,920
solar orbiter where it needed to be and

2228
01:23:48,229 --> 01:23:45,280
as you just heard and saw the

2229
01:23:49,590 --> 01:23:48,239
celebration a successful separation now

2230
01:23:52,310 --> 01:23:49,600
we're just waiting to hear from our

2231
01:23:53,990 --> 01:23:52,320
spacecraft team you know roughly uh two

2232
01:23:56,709 --> 01:23:54,000
minutes from now hopefully that we will

2233
01:23:58,790 --> 01:23:56,719
get acquisition of signal and make sure

2234
01:24:01,110 --> 01:23:58,800
that everything is going well with the

2235
01:24:04,149 --> 01:24:01,120
solar orbiter spacecraft so the mission

2236
01:24:06,229 --> 01:24:04,159
is a success so far but we still have a

2237
01:24:08,310 --> 01:24:06,239
little bit more to go to make sure solar

2238
01:24:11,110 --> 01:24:08,320
orbiter is on its way hold now for those

2239
01:24:13,910 --> 01:24:11,120
uh those final moments as they pass to

2240
01:24:16,310 --> 01:24:13,920
get this spacecraft separation we know

2241
01:24:17,830 --> 01:24:16,320
the spacecraft team is here with us just

2242
01:24:18,790 --> 01:24:17,840
behind us here in the mission director's

2243
01:24:21,510 --> 01:24:18,800
center

2244
01:24:22,790 --> 01:24:21,520
they've been pretty calm and collected

2245
01:24:24,229 --> 01:24:22,800
throughout their

2246
01:24:26,229 --> 01:24:24,239
work

2247
01:24:27,830 --> 01:24:26,239
and you know them oh yeah very well the

2248
01:24:29,590 --> 01:24:27,840
spacecraft team and you're going to talk

2249
01:24:32,629 --> 01:24:29,600
to them a little bit later how things

2250
01:24:33,910 --> 01:24:32,639
are going from that aspect and i think

2251
01:24:36,470 --> 01:24:33,920
they're going to be very happy you can

2252
01:24:39,189 --> 01:24:36,480
see here the denver op center in denver

2253
01:24:41,110 --> 01:24:39,199
colorado the ula engineering team is

2254
01:24:42,870 --> 01:24:41,120
still looking at data on performance a

2255
01:24:45,350 --> 01:24:42,880
launch vehicle even though we've had a

2256
01:24:46,950 --> 01:24:45,360
successful sep things still get looked

2257
01:24:49,350 --> 01:24:46,960
at to make sure everything was within

2258
01:24:50,390 --> 01:24:49,360
our pre-flight uh predictions from that

2259
01:24:52,790 --> 01:24:50,400
aspect

2260
01:24:55,430 --> 01:24:52,800
again a very exciting moment i i'm very

2261
01:24:58,870 --> 01:24:55,440
excited that we we're here and looking

2262
01:25:00,790 --> 01:24:58,880
forward to get uh acquisition for that

2263
01:25:04,149 --> 01:25:00,800
so things are going well with the teams

2264
01:25:07,270 --> 01:25:04,159
and as we proceed forward

2265
01:25:08,709 --> 01:25:07,280
so now the centaur has separated away

2266
01:25:10,629 --> 01:25:08,719
and there's a little bit of business

2267
01:25:13,110 --> 01:25:10,639
that actually has to do as it leaves the

2268
01:25:14,709 --> 01:25:13,120
spacecraft yeah now the spacecraft is

2269
01:25:16,470 --> 01:25:14,719
left the centaur has to perform a couple

2270
01:25:19,270 --> 01:25:16,480
maneuvers to get out of the way and make

2271
01:25:21,030 --> 01:25:19,280
sure that it's uh uh basically done with

2272
01:25:22,870 --> 01:25:21,040
its mission so the solar rover can move

2273
01:25:24,390 --> 01:25:22,880
on and we have no interferences and

2274
01:25:26,550 --> 01:25:24,400
things like that so it's going to fire

2275
01:25:29,669 --> 01:25:26,560
its structures a little bit longer to

2276
01:25:31,990 --> 01:25:29,679
make sure that it's well away from solar

2277
01:25:34,790 --> 01:25:32,000
orbiter as we continue with the mission

2278
01:25:36,470 --> 01:25:34,800
and wait for acquisition of signal and

2279
01:25:38,470 --> 01:25:36,480
as you see there on your screen that's a

2280
01:25:40,629 --> 01:25:38,480
picture of the mission director center

2281
01:25:43,590 --> 01:25:40,639
here at ae where our esa friends are

2282
01:25:45,350 --> 01:25:43,600
sitting and waiting on that acquisition

2283
01:25:47,030 --> 01:25:45,360
signal from their spacecraft so i'm

2284
01:25:48,229 --> 01:25:47,040
looking forward to seeing and hearing

2285
01:25:50,709 --> 01:25:48,239
that from them

2286
01:25:52,070 --> 01:25:50,719
and see how excited they are to know

2287
01:25:53,910 --> 01:25:52,080
that solar orbiter is out there and

2288
01:25:56,070 --> 01:25:53,920
doing its thing that's right and just a

2289
01:25:58,070 --> 01:25:56,080
few seconds away from that event mick is

2290
01:25:59,830 --> 01:25:58,080
and the spacecraft team is sitting in

2291
01:26:02,950 --> 01:25:59,840
the front row that you see there on the

2292
01:26:05,590 --> 01:26:02,960
left portion of your screen so

2293
01:26:07,110 --> 01:26:05,600
once that confirmation comes in that the

2294
01:26:08,870 --> 01:26:07,120
spacecraft

2295
01:26:11,030 --> 01:26:08,880
has indeed

2296
01:26:14,310 --> 01:26:11,040
sent its signal and they've verified

2297
01:26:17,189 --> 01:26:14,320
that is in the place that it is expected

2298
01:26:19,189 --> 01:26:17,199
you can probably expect to see a great

2299
01:26:21,590 --> 01:26:19,199
amount of relief and celebration from

2300
01:26:24,149 --> 01:26:21,600
that front row here at the mission

2301
01:26:25,830 --> 01:26:24,159
directors center uh the cape canaveral

2302
01:26:28,229 --> 01:26:25,840
air force station of course we're in the

2303
01:26:30,310 --> 01:26:28,239
broadcast booth to the upper right with

2304
01:26:31,590 --> 01:26:30,320
our backs to you but it's not uh not

2305
01:26:33,270 --> 01:26:31,600
trying to be impolite but we are

2306
01:26:35,110 --> 01:26:33,280
monitoring our systems here as well yeah

2307
01:26:39,270 --> 01:26:35,120
we like you said we're looking at data

2308
01:26:44,950 --> 01:26:42,070
hope hopefully we're going to hear that

2309
01:26:46,629 --> 01:26:44,960
we get acquisition from signals uh from

2310
01:26:49,590 --> 01:26:46,639
the spacecraft but we'll continue to

2311
01:26:52,229 --> 01:26:49,600
wait and uh hear that uh from this is

2312
01:26:54,950 --> 01:26:52,239
from from our issa friends so

2313
01:26:57,830 --> 01:26:54,960
um with that i think we are ready to

2314
01:26:59,910 --> 01:26:57,840
throw it back over to uh joshua

2315
01:27:02,709 --> 01:26:59,920
who's with my good friend and who's

2316
01:27:05,270 --> 01:27:02,719
excited about this launch my favorite

2317
01:27:06,950 --> 01:27:05,280
nasa launch manager uh mr tim dunn can't

2318
01:27:08,390 --> 01:27:06,960
do much uh better introduction than that

2319
01:27:10,229 --> 01:27:08,400
take it away guys is he saying that

2320
01:27:12,310 --> 01:27:10,239
because omar is not here is that why

2321
01:27:14,790 --> 01:27:12,320
only because omar is not i see i see you

2322
01:27:16,709 --> 01:27:14,800
know mick omar is in the next room

2323
01:27:18,229 --> 01:27:16,719
no yeah and uh this is nasa launch

2324
01:27:19,669 --> 01:27:18,239
manager tim dunn he's the nasa launch

2325
01:27:21,270 --> 01:27:19,679
manager for this mission yeah so

2326
01:27:23,030 --> 01:27:21,280
appreciate you taking a few minutes away

2327
01:27:24,790 --> 01:27:23,040
we we kind of keep saying this that

2328
01:27:25,830 --> 01:27:24,800
we're not done yet right but we're close

2329
01:27:27,350 --> 01:27:25,840
we're getting there close we keep

2330
01:27:28,870 --> 01:27:27,360
getting there everything's going well so

2331
01:27:31,030 --> 01:27:28,880
tell us about the flight so far how do

2332
01:27:33,669 --> 01:27:31,040
we do so flight's going really well so

2333
01:27:36,229 --> 01:27:33,679
far i'm a little bit tamped down on my

2334
01:27:38,390 --> 01:27:36,239
enthusiasm just because we want to get a

2335
01:27:40,790 --> 01:27:38,400
few key mark events from the spacecraft

2336
01:27:42,229 --> 01:27:40,800
but obviously countdown went incredibly

2337
01:27:44,229 --> 01:27:42,239
smooth

2338
01:27:46,790 --> 01:27:44,239
worked a couple of minor issues in the

2339
01:27:48,790 --> 01:27:46,800
background nothing of significance

2340
01:27:50,870 --> 01:27:48,800
boy gorgeous weather

2341
01:27:53,270 --> 01:27:50,880
range instrumentation from the 45th

2342
01:27:55,430 --> 01:27:53,280
space wing was exceptional today

2343
01:27:57,830 --> 01:27:55,440
the ula team i can't say enough about

2344
01:28:00,629 --> 01:27:57,840
the ula team just incredible how they're

2345
01:28:03,189 --> 01:28:00,639
able to process and prepare this rocket

2346
01:28:05,350 --> 01:28:03,199
so a great countdown beautiful night

2347
01:28:06,629 --> 01:28:05,360
liftoff here on the space coast uh i

2348
01:28:11,590 --> 01:28:06,639
hope folks

2349
01:28:13,350 --> 01:28:11,600
watching on nasa tv i know you guys

2350
01:28:15,189 --> 01:28:13,360
showed them some great shots had to be

2351
01:28:16,950 --> 01:28:15,199
beautiful out there we felt the rumble

2352
01:28:19,510 --> 01:28:16,960
here in the mission director center in

2353
01:28:21,830 --> 01:28:19,520
the asoc and uh nothing like a

2354
01:28:23,990 --> 01:28:21,840
successful launch so obviously we got

2355
01:28:25,350 --> 01:28:24,000
great spacecrafts up a few minutes ago

2356
01:28:27,510 --> 01:28:25,360
and now we're just waiting for a couple

2357
01:28:29,510 --> 01:28:27,520
of mark events and then we'll want to

2358
01:28:31,350 --> 01:28:29,520
tell you the full story and share the

2359
01:28:33,110 --> 01:28:31,360
real excitement then there you go yeah

2360
01:28:35,110 --> 01:28:33,120
we're uh we're excited for the folks

2361
01:28:36,629 --> 01:28:35,120
from here from esa as well as the

2362
01:28:38,070 --> 01:28:36,639
tourists in the area and just employees

2363
01:28:39,750 --> 01:28:38,080
and everybody it was a beautiful night

2364
01:28:41,510 --> 01:28:39,760
out uh clear skies so if you were

2365
01:28:43,430 --> 01:28:41,520
outside you were treated to a beautiful

2366
01:28:45,350 --> 01:28:43,440
launch just you could see that thing

2367
01:28:47,270 --> 01:28:45,360
almost to the horizon i think yep

2368
01:28:48,709 --> 01:28:47,280
gorgeous so tim again i appreciate you

2369
01:28:50,229 --> 01:28:48,719
stopping by i don't want to keep you too

2370
01:28:51,669 --> 01:28:50,239
long um because i know that you're still

2371
01:28:53,910 --> 01:28:51,679
focused on that because the job is not

2372
01:28:55,030 --> 01:28:53,920
done yet for today all right i'm looking

2373
01:28:56,470 --> 01:28:55,040
forward to coming back and talking to

2374
01:28:58,470 --> 01:28:56,480
you in a few minutes thanks for stopping

2375
01:29:00,950 --> 01:28:58,480
by and if this is not excited i can't

2376
01:29:02,229 --> 01:29:00,960
wait for super excited tim so all right

2377
01:29:04,470 --> 01:29:02,239
thanks tim uh we're actually gonna send

2378
01:29:06,470 --> 01:29:04,480
you now uh we wanna

2379
01:29:08,550 --> 01:29:06,480
look at one of the greatest mysteries of

2380
01:29:10,229 --> 01:29:08,560
the sun and that's that in the corona

2381
01:29:12,229 --> 01:29:10,239
the temperature is actually millions of

2382
01:29:14,070 --> 01:29:12,239
degrees hotter than actually on the

2383
01:29:17,590 --> 01:29:14,080
surface of the sun we call it the

2384
01:29:19,750 --> 01:29:17,600
coronal heating problem take a look

2385
01:29:21,910 --> 01:29:19,760
the sun's core is the hottest part of

2386
01:29:24,470 --> 01:29:21,920
the sun but our star's temperature

2387
01:29:26,709 --> 01:29:24,480
doesn't behave as you might expect the

2388
01:29:29,189 --> 01:29:26,719
core is roughly 27 million degrees

2389
01:29:31,750 --> 01:29:29,199
fahrenheit and 10 times more dense than

2390
01:29:34,629 --> 01:29:31,760
gold as you move outward the layers of

2391
01:29:36,950 --> 01:29:34,639
the sun become cooler and less dense

2392
01:29:39,270 --> 01:29:36,960
something unusual however occurs when

2393
01:29:41,350 --> 01:29:39,280
you reach the outermost layer

2394
01:29:43,990 --> 01:29:41,360
while the surface is around 10 000

2395
01:29:45,910 --> 01:29:44,000
degrees fahrenheit the corona the sun's

2396
01:29:48,310 --> 01:29:45,920
outer atmosphere is several hundred

2397
01:29:50,550 --> 01:29:48,320
times hotter that's the opposite of what

2398
01:29:52,550 --> 01:29:50,560
happens with a fire when it gets cooler

2399
01:29:54,470 --> 01:29:52,560
the farther away you get

2400
01:29:57,110 --> 01:29:54,480
scientists call this the coronal heating

2401
01:30:00,390 --> 01:29:57,120
problem and evidence for this was first

2402
01:30:03,110 --> 01:30:00,400
uncovered during an eclipse in the 1800s

2403
01:30:05,030 --> 01:30:03,120
the corona is usually hard to see it's

2404
01:30:07,270 --> 01:30:05,040
too dim to be seen next to the sun's

2405
01:30:09,590 --> 01:30:07,280
bright body but it can be seen with the

2406
01:30:11,990 --> 01:30:09,600
naked eye when the moon blocks the sun

2407
01:30:13,830 --> 01:30:12,000
during a total solar eclipse

2408
01:30:15,669 --> 01:30:13,840
to understand how this mystery was

2409
01:30:17,669 --> 01:30:15,679
discovered it helps to know how

2410
01:30:20,470 --> 01:30:17,679
scientists started studying the chemical

2411
01:30:22,790 --> 01:30:20,480
properties of materials on earth in the

2412
01:30:25,189 --> 01:30:22,800
early 1800s instruments named

2413
01:30:27,990 --> 01:30:25,199
spectroscopes were invented to identify

2414
01:30:29,990 --> 01:30:28,000
materials that emit light when heated

2415
01:30:32,790 --> 01:30:30,000
light enters the spectroscope and is

2416
01:30:35,430 --> 01:30:32,800
filtered through a tiny hole to isolate

2417
01:30:37,350 --> 01:30:35,440
a single area it then bounces off a

2418
01:30:39,510 --> 01:30:37,360
special grating that disperses light

2419
01:30:42,070 --> 01:30:39,520
into its different wavelengths

2420
01:30:43,750 --> 01:30:42,080
while sunlight contains every wavelength

2421
01:30:45,910 --> 01:30:43,760
scientists discovered that every

2422
01:30:47,750 --> 01:30:45,920
chemical element and compound contains a

2423
01:30:49,510 --> 01:30:47,760
unique pattern of wavelengths that

2424
01:30:52,310 --> 01:30:49,520
allows scientists to determine the

2425
01:30:54,310 --> 01:30:52,320
composition of light sources it was long

2426
01:30:56,229 --> 01:30:54,320
before astronomers started extracting

2427
01:30:57,990 --> 01:30:56,239
information from the light of distant

2428
01:31:01,189 --> 01:30:58,000
stellar objects

2429
01:31:03,669 --> 01:31:01,199
in 1869 two scientists independently

2430
01:31:06,470 --> 01:31:03,679
decided to point a spectroscope toward

2431
01:31:08,629 --> 01:31:06,480
the corona during a total solar eclipse

2432
01:31:11,110 --> 01:31:08,639
as the sun's light disappeared the

2433
01:31:13,510 --> 01:31:11,120
pattern of wavelengths changed they saw

2434
01:31:16,149 --> 01:31:13,520
something they had never seen before

2435
01:31:18,790 --> 01:31:16,159
a bright green line that did not relate

2436
01:31:21,910 --> 01:31:18,800
to any element found on earth for a

2437
01:31:24,470 --> 01:31:21,920
short while scientists named it coronium

2438
01:31:26,470 --> 01:31:24,480
it wasn't until 70 years later that a

2439
01:31:28,790 --> 01:31:26,480
swedish scientist discovered that these

2440
01:31:31,990 --> 01:31:28,800
lines were the result of elements such

2441
01:31:33,990 --> 01:31:32,000
as iron being stripped of its electrons

2442
01:31:36,310 --> 01:31:34,000
every element has a specific number of

2443
01:31:38,790 --> 01:31:36,320
electrons surrounding the nucleus as

2444
01:31:40,790 --> 01:31:38,800
each electron is removed more energy is

2445
01:31:42,870 --> 01:31:40,800
needed to remove the next one

2446
01:31:46,070 --> 01:31:42,880
the green line shows that iron has been

2447
01:31:48,310 --> 01:31:46,080
stripped off 13 of its 26 electrons

2448
01:31:49,950 --> 01:31:48,320
indicating that the corona needed to be

2449
01:31:52,070 --> 01:31:49,960
millions of degrees

2450
01:31:54,310 --> 01:31:52,080
counter-intuitively far hotter than the

2451
01:31:56,390 --> 01:31:54,320
sun's surface

2452
01:31:58,470 --> 01:31:56,400
scientists have since proposed a variety

2453
01:32:00,070 --> 01:31:58,480
of theories for what mechanisms could be

2454
01:32:01,430 --> 01:32:00,080
adding that extra heat into the

2455
01:32:03,590 --> 01:32:01,440
atmosphere

2456
01:32:05,910 --> 01:32:03,600
one theory suggests that small waves in

2457
01:32:08,550 --> 01:32:05,920
the sun's surface pushes particles and

2458
01:32:10,870 --> 01:32:08,560
heat into the atmosphere a bit like how

2459
01:32:12,950 --> 01:32:10,880
ocean waves push surfers

2460
01:32:14,950 --> 01:32:12,960
another theory suggests small bomb-like

2461
01:32:17,750 --> 01:32:14,960
explosions from the realignment of the

2462
01:32:19,669 --> 01:32:17,760
sun's magnetic field create heat

2463
01:32:20,629 --> 01:32:19,679
many scientists think it may be a mix of

2464
01:32:22,390 --> 01:32:20,639
both

2465
01:32:24,870 --> 01:32:22,400
we've studied the corona from earth

2466
01:32:26,470 --> 01:32:24,880
during many eclipses but to solve our

2467
01:32:28,709 --> 01:32:26,480
star's biggest mystery

2468
01:32:33,470 --> 01:32:28,719
we have to make direct observations from

2469
01:32:33,480 --> 01:32:44,070
[Music]

2470
01:32:47,990 --> 01:32:46,070
we just heard great news the signal

2471
01:32:49,910 --> 01:32:48,000
acquisition has been confirmed so

2472
01:32:51,430 --> 01:32:49,920
another check on the list of things that

2473
01:32:53,110 --> 01:32:51,440
need to go right today

2474
01:32:54,629 --> 01:32:53,120
and so that list is coming together very

2475
01:32:59,030 --> 01:32:54,639
beautifully we're going to send you now

2476
01:33:01,590 --> 01:32:59,040
out to nasa edges franklin fitzgerald

2477
01:33:04,070 --> 01:33:01,600
to take a look and talk to an

2478
01:33:05,910 --> 01:33:04,080
astrophysicist a solar astrophysicist

2479
01:33:08,790 --> 01:33:05,920
franklin

2480
01:33:11,910 --> 01:33:08,800
thank you joshua yeah i'm here with dr

2481
01:33:13,510 --> 01:33:11,920
alex uh young who is an astrophysicist

2482
01:33:15,430 --> 01:33:13,520
from goddard uh

2483
01:33:17,510 --> 01:33:15,440
alex how are you today i'm doing

2484
01:33:20,950 --> 01:33:17,520
fantastic how are you i'm doing pretty

2485
01:33:23,750 --> 01:33:20,960
good uh you saw the launch from banana

2486
01:33:26,229 --> 01:33:23,760
creek how was it it was spectacular it

2487
01:33:27,510 --> 01:33:26,239
was so spectacular that that's not the

2488
01:33:29,189 --> 01:33:27,520
first launch but it's the first time

2489
01:33:31,430 --> 01:33:29,199
i've seen one from there and it was

2490
01:33:34,470 --> 01:33:31,440
amazing and being with that crowd was

2491
01:33:37,110 --> 01:33:34,480
amazing that is good to hear now

2492
01:33:40,470 --> 01:33:37,120
i know you are very interested in

2493
01:33:43,669 --> 01:33:40,480
getting to the science of solar orbiter

2494
01:33:45,430 --> 01:33:43,679
uh tell me about what you most

2495
01:33:46,470 --> 01:33:45,440
are looking forward to

2496
01:33:48,790 --> 01:33:46,480
well

2497
01:33:50,790 --> 01:33:48,800
uh i mean one of the

2498
01:33:54,390 --> 01:33:50,800
most obvious things that comes to mind

2499
01:33:57,750 --> 01:33:54,400
is the unique view of the poles

2500
01:33:59,590 --> 01:33:57,760
we have never imaged the poles of the

2501
01:34:01,270 --> 01:33:59,600
sun we've never

2502
01:34:04,470 --> 01:34:01,280
gathered

2503
01:34:06,629 --> 01:34:04,480
detailed magnetic field observations of

2504
01:34:09,110 --> 01:34:06,639
the poles directly

2505
01:34:11,189 --> 01:34:09,120
and that's a really really important

2506
01:34:13,430 --> 01:34:11,199
thing for understanding the sun's

2507
01:34:15,189 --> 01:34:13,440
activity cycle and so

2508
01:34:17,669 --> 01:34:15,199
that is really really critical because

2509
01:34:20,790 --> 01:34:17,679
that's what you know the sun's magnetic

2510
01:34:22,070 --> 01:34:20,800
activity drives space weather

2511
01:34:25,030 --> 01:34:22,080
and so

2512
01:34:26,790 --> 01:34:25,040
this is going to be a game changer with

2513
01:34:29,030 --> 01:34:26,800
these kind of observations from from

2514
01:34:30,790 --> 01:34:29,040
solar orbiter now

2515
01:34:34,390 --> 01:34:30,800
you got a couple years until you start

2516
01:34:37,590 --> 01:34:34,400
gathering data from solar orbiter uh but

2517
01:34:39,669 --> 01:34:37,600
you do have a recent uh solar mission

2518
01:34:41,910 --> 01:34:39,679
where you've been receiving some some

2519
01:34:43,590 --> 01:34:41,920
data and that's parker solar probe can

2520
01:34:46,070 --> 01:34:43,600
you give us a little update on that yeah

2521
01:34:48,550 --> 01:34:46,080
so parker solar probe is already been

2522
01:34:51,109 --> 01:34:48,560
around the sun three times it's going to

2523
01:34:53,910 --> 01:34:51,119
make 24

2524
01:34:55,590 --> 01:34:53,920
orbits and each one you know it's good

2525
01:34:56,870 --> 01:34:55,600
every time it passes venus which will

2526
01:34:59,189 --> 01:34:56,880
give it a little kick it'll be closer

2527
01:35:01,430 --> 01:34:59,199
and closer but they've already brought

2528
01:35:04,070 --> 01:35:01,440
back data they've already brought back

2529
01:35:04,870 --> 01:35:04,080
tons of data and

2530
01:35:06,229 --> 01:35:04,880
have

2531
01:35:09,109 --> 01:35:06,239
gathered

2532
01:35:10,550 --> 01:35:09,119
amazing number of questions

2533
01:35:13,669 --> 01:35:10,560
that they hadn't expected you know

2534
01:35:15,910 --> 01:35:13,679
they've made amazing discoveries already

2535
01:35:18,550 --> 01:35:15,920
they haven't even gotten to

2536
01:35:21,189 --> 01:35:18,560
the the final goal

2537
01:35:24,550 --> 01:35:21,199
and we have a new understanding already

2538
01:35:27,030 --> 01:35:24,560
of the turbulence sort of the region

2539
01:35:32,229 --> 01:35:27,040
where the solar wind

2540
01:35:34,709 --> 01:35:32,239
sort of relaxes

2541
01:35:36,950 --> 01:35:34,719
we found out that the magnetic fields

2542
01:35:41,030 --> 01:35:36,960
that come away from the sun

2543
01:35:43,750 --> 01:35:41,040
actually do these crazy 180 turns back i

2544
01:35:45,590 --> 01:35:43,760
call those switchbacks

2545
01:35:47,830 --> 01:35:45,600
and you know some of the scientists have

2546
01:35:50,390 --> 01:35:47,840
even discovered

2547
01:35:51,990 --> 01:35:50,400
something non-solar

2548
01:35:54,709 --> 01:35:52,000
they've seen

2549
01:35:57,590 --> 01:35:54,719
some of the the dust trails

2550
01:36:00,390 --> 01:35:57,600
that are what cause meteor showers here

2551
01:36:02,070 --> 01:36:00,400
on earth due to comets and asteroids

2552
01:36:03,990 --> 01:36:02,080
that they've been trying to see for a

2553
01:36:06,629 --> 01:36:04,000
long time but they're so difficult to

2554
01:36:07,669 --> 01:36:06,639
find because so close to the sun is too

2555
01:36:09,910 --> 01:36:07,679
bright

2556
01:36:11,590 --> 01:36:09,920
but we've used really really sensitive

2557
01:36:12,950 --> 01:36:11,600
cameras on the side of the spacecraft

2558
01:36:15,189 --> 01:36:12,960
that have seen these so

2559
01:36:16,470 --> 01:36:15,199
it is so cool and

2560
01:36:17,830 --> 01:36:16,480
this is one of the things you know you

2561
01:36:19,669 --> 01:36:17,840
and i have talked about one of the

2562
01:36:22,070 --> 01:36:19,679
things that excites me so much about

2563
01:36:23,750 --> 01:36:22,080
science is the fact that you always come

2564
01:36:25,669 --> 01:36:23,760
back with more questions than you do

2565
01:36:27,189 --> 01:36:25,679
answers and that's what really drives

2566
01:36:28,550 --> 01:36:27,199
science forward

2567
01:36:30,550 --> 01:36:28,560
speaking about the science a little bit

2568
01:36:33,109 --> 01:36:30,560
more is there is there going to be any

2569
01:36:36,149 --> 01:36:33,119
overlap in the type of

2570
01:36:38,709 --> 01:36:36,159
discoveries you'll make between solar

2571
01:36:41,189 --> 01:36:38,719
orbiter and parker oh absolutely so

2572
01:36:44,470 --> 01:36:41,199
these are really two complementary

2573
01:36:47,350 --> 01:36:44,480
missions because solar orbiter is going

2574
01:36:49,590 --> 01:36:47,360
to get really really close and give us a

2575
01:36:51,910 --> 01:36:49,600
lot of detail of what's happening in the

2576
01:36:54,149 --> 01:36:51,920
regions where we think the solar wind is

2577
01:36:57,109 --> 01:36:54,159
accelerated away from the sun where we

2578
01:36:59,750 --> 01:36:57,119
think energetic particles

2579
01:37:00,790 --> 01:36:59,760
are accelerated from the sun but solar

2580
01:37:03,990 --> 01:37:00,800
orbiter

2581
01:37:05,669 --> 01:37:04,000
is going to be slightly farther out

2582
01:37:07,590 --> 01:37:05,679
and give us

2583
01:37:09,590 --> 01:37:07,600
more details as to what's happening in

2584
01:37:12,790 --> 01:37:09,600
these transition regions as things are

2585
01:37:13,830 --> 01:37:12,800
moving out as well as this perspective

2586
01:37:15,750 --> 01:37:13,840
you know

2587
01:37:17,750 --> 01:37:15,760
out of the plane

2588
01:37:21,030 --> 01:37:17,760
of the solar system

2589
01:37:22,870 --> 01:37:21,040
and so having all of these missions

2590
01:37:24,070 --> 01:37:22,880
so close

2591
01:37:25,830 --> 01:37:24,080
because even

2592
01:37:28,310 --> 01:37:25,840
even though solar orbiter is not as

2593
01:37:30,149 --> 01:37:28,320
close as parker solar probe it's still

2594
01:37:32,950 --> 01:37:30,159
in an unknown area it's still in a

2595
01:37:35,430 --> 01:37:32,960
region which we've barely sampled

2596
01:37:37,270 --> 01:37:35,440
it's closer than we've been

2597
01:37:39,270 --> 01:37:37,280
before not including solar orbiters

2598
01:37:41,350 --> 01:37:39,280
closer than we've ever been before so

2599
01:37:43,590 --> 01:37:41,360
both of these are sampling

2600
01:37:45,430 --> 01:37:43,600
a really unique area and a really

2601
01:37:48,390 --> 01:37:45,440
important area in the sun

2602
01:37:51,270 --> 01:37:48,400
and uh it's the the data is going to

2603
01:37:54,310 --> 01:37:51,280
continue to surprise us and excite us

2604
01:37:57,030 --> 01:37:54,320
hey uh alex it is great to have you on

2605
01:37:59,270 --> 01:37:57,040
the show great seeing you again and we

2606
01:38:01,590 --> 01:37:59,280
look forward to getting more uh data

2607
01:38:04,629 --> 01:38:01,600
from parker solar probe and from the

2608
01:38:05,990 --> 01:38:04,639
solar orbiter absolutely joshua back to

2609
01:38:09,590 --> 01:38:06,000
you

2610
01:38:12,229 --> 01:38:09,600
good insight there and i'm joined now by

2611
01:38:14,550 --> 01:38:12,239
omar baez who today is the assistant

2612
01:38:17,430 --> 01:38:14,560
launch manager nasa launch manager um

2613
01:38:19,750 --> 01:38:17,440
and so you and tim flip-flop roles uh

2614
01:38:21,430 --> 01:38:19,760
depending upon the mission so today tim

2615
01:38:23,669 --> 01:38:21,440
was the the manager and you're the

2616
01:38:25,510 --> 01:38:23,679
assistant um but then in the future

2617
01:38:27,990 --> 01:38:25,520
coming up this year uh what missions are

2618
01:38:30,310 --> 01:38:28,000
yours what are you the the lead for so

2619
01:38:31,830 --> 01:38:30,320
it we talked about it earlier bob cabana

2620
01:38:34,149 --> 01:38:31,840
was here he started talking about the

2621
01:38:37,350 --> 01:38:34,159
mars 2020 mission yes that's our next

2622
01:38:39,510 --> 01:38:37,360
mission up um we expect the rover to be

2623
01:38:41,669 --> 01:38:39,520
arriving this week parts of it have

2624
01:38:44,310 --> 01:38:41,679
already arrived

2625
01:38:47,750 --> 01:38:44,320
and we really are looking forward to

2626
01:38:50,149 --> 01:38:47,760
that um that's going to go on an atlas

2627
01:38:53,270 --> 01:38:50,159
uh with a couple of more solid rocket

2628
01:38:56,550 --> 01:38:53,280
motors and this one here to get it out

2629
01:38:58,950 --> 01:38:56,560
to the mars for its seven-month voyage

2630
01:39:01,830 --> 01:38:58,960
we plan to launch that on july 17th and

2631
01:39:03,669 --> 01:39:01,840
hopefully land on mars february 18th of

2632
01:39:05,350 --> 01:39:03,679
2021

2633
01:39:07,830 --> 01:39:05,360
seven month voyage

2634
01:39:09,350 --> 01:39:07,840
a really exciting mission uh the the

2635
01:39:11,590 --> 01:39:09,360
country's going to be overwhelmed the

2636
01:39:15,270 --> 01:39:11,600
world's going to be overwhelmed when we

2637
01:39:18,070 --> 01:39:15,280
see this helicopter uh as as its payload

2638
01:39:19,830 --> 01:39:18,080
and not a a primary instrument but it

2639
01:39:22,149 --> 01:39:19,840
really cool stuff going on with that

2640
01:39:26,870 --> 01:39:24,470
the public's going to really love

2641
01:39:29,510 --> 01:39:26,880
the missions out there to get uh

2642
01:39:31,510 --> 01:39:29,520
cachet some uh samples and hopefully get

2643
01:39:33,189 --> 01:39:31,520
a sample return mission to keep that

2644
01:39:35,910 --> 01:39:33,199
continuity going

2645
01:39:37,189 --> 01:39:35,920
and we're super excited about doing that

2646
01:39:38,870 --> 01:39:37,199
uh this summer

2647
01:39:41,350 --> 01:39:38,880
yeah that's awesome um so you're the

2648
01:39:44,149 --> 01:39:41,360
lead for i am i am the launch director

2649
01:39:45,350 --> 01:39:44,159
for the mars 2020 mission very cool so

2650
01:39:47,109 --> 01:39:45,360
uh tell me a little bit about the

2651
01:39:49,030 --> 01:39:47,119
relationship that you and tim have on

2652
01:39:50,390 --> 01:39:49,040
launch day obviously one of you's launch

2653
01:39:52,310 --> 01:39:50,400
manager one of you is the assistant

2654
01:39:53,750 --> 01:39:52,320
launch manager so

2655
01:39:56,629 --> 01:39:53,760
practically speaking what does that mean

2656
01:39:58,950 --> 01:39:56,639
we're completely interchangeable okay so

2657
01:40:03,270 --> 01:39:58,960
uh no matter what's going on things get

2658
01:40:05,109 --> 01:40:03,280
busy we're able to to um take on that um

2659
01:40:07,189 --> 01:40:05,119
if we get really busy the other one can

2660
01:40:09,669 --> 01:40:07,199
take some load off of the primary guy

2661
01:40:12,390 --> 01:40:09,679
that is what i'm there for today

2662
01:40:15,030 --> 01:40:12,400
is to to do those things where um when

2663
01:40:15,910 --> 01:40:15,040
he's time crunched um i can help him out

2664
01:40:17,830 --> 01:40:15,920
with

2665
01:40:18,950 --> 01:40:17,840
likewise when he's uh

2666
01:40:21,189 --> 01:40:18,960
um

2667
01:40:23,350 --> 01:40:21,199
you know stuff happens

2668
01:40:25,830 --> 01:40:23,360
uh you have to go to bathroom you have

2669
01:40:28,229 --> 01:40:25,840
to eat sure sure the practical thing you

2670
01:40:29,510 --> 01:40:28,239
got to step in yeah very good so and i

2671
01:40:30,950 --> 01:40:29,520
think it's really important point to key

2672
01:40:32,470 --> 01:40:30,960
on is that it's really interchangeable

2673
01:40:34,629 --> 01:40:32,480
where essentially you just have to have

2674
01:40:36,070 --> 01:40:34,639
one person in charge and so it's him but

2675
01:40:37,830 --> 01:40:36,080
ultimately you all kind of carry carry

2676
01:40:39,590 --> 01:40:37,840
that weight together correct so beyond

2677
01:40:41,669 --> 01:40:39,600
march 2020 what's ahead for the launch

2678
01:40:44,550 --> 01:40:41,679
services program obviously i think we're

2679
01:40:47,030 --> 01:40:44,560
coming up on 22 years of of

2680
01:40:48,870 --> 01:40:47,040
existence um so what's the next decade

2681
01:40:50,950 --> 01:40:48,880
hold for launch services program there's

2682
01:40:53,189 --> 01:40:50,960
an array of missions it's been a pl i've

2683
01:40:55,830 --> 01:40:53,199
been with the launch services program

2684
01:40:57,350 --> 01:40:55,840
for um the 20 years and a couple of

2685
01:40:59,270 --> 01:40:57,360
years before that when we were the

2686
01:41:01,590 --> 01:40:59,280
predecessor organization

2687
01:41:03,910 --> 01:41:01,600
and uh

2688
01:41:04,950 --> 01:41:03,920
we've assaulted all the planets

2689
01:41:06,709 --> 01:41:04,960
and

2690
01:41:09,350 --> 01:41:06,719
in a very research oriented way

2691
01:41:11,990 --> 01:41:09,360
absolutely and uh

2692
01:41:14,229 --> 01:41:12,000
it's phenomenal to think back uh an

2693
01:41:16,790 --> 01:41:14,239
organization that was

2694
01:41:19,270 --> 01:41:16,800
very tiny a very a small portion of the

2695
01:41:21,510 --> 01:41:19,280
agency we weren't even noticed

2696
01:41:24,950 --> 01:41:21,520
uh we're able to reach out

2697
01:41:26,790 --> 01:41:24,960
um to the fur furthest uh planetary

2698
01:41:28,550 --> 01:41:26,800
bodies around us

2699
01:41:31,109 --> 01:41:28,560
and uh it's been a real pleasure and

2700
01:41:32,390 --> 01:41:31,119
we're we're gonna continue doing that

2701
01:41:34,470 --> 01:41:32,400
and

2702
01:41:36,550 --> 01:41:34,480
as bob said earlier these

2703
01:41:39,109 --> 01:41:36,560
these missions are precursors

2704
01:41:40,149 --> 01:41:39,119
to the humans going out beyond earth's

2705
01:41:41,189 --> 01:41:40,159
orbit

2706
01:41:43,750 --> 01:41:41,199
and

2707
01:41:46,709 --> 01:41:43,760
we really look forward to doing all the

2708
01:41:48,709 --> 01:41:46,719
pre-work that we can with automation

2709
01:41:50,470 --> 01:41:48,719
before the human gets out there sure

2710
01:41:52,070 --> 01:41:50,480
good does this job ever get old you've

2711
01:41:53,910 --> 01:41:52,080
been doing this a while now do you ever

2712
01:41:55,350 --> 01:41:53,920
get tired of sitting there another

2713
01:41:56,709 --> 01:41:55,360
launch countdown does it ever feel that

2714
01:41:58,870 --> 01:41:56,719
way no

2715
01:42:00,390 --> 01:41:58,880
it's always exciting i've got the most

2716
01:42:03,669 --> 01:42:00,400
uh

2717
01:42:06,390 --> 01:42:03,679
i'm most fortunate in the job that i do

2718
01:42:09,030 --> 01:42:06,400
i really love it uh someday there will

2719
01:42:09,750 --> 01:42:09,040
be a sunset for me just this prior week

2720
01:42:28,629 --> 01:42:09,760
i

2721
01:42:30,550 --> 01:42:28,639
what's above what's better than a launch

2722
01:42:31,910 --> 01:42:30,560
director i can't think of it right now

2723
01:42:33,830 --> 01:42:31,920
except being retired and having a

2724
01:42:35,430 --> 01:42:33,840
margarita somewhere

2725
01:42:37,270 --> 01:42:35,440
all right and with that omar i will let

2726
01:42:39,030 --> 01:42:37,280
you get back again uh we kind of keep

2727
01:42:40,790 --> 01:42:39,040
saying this but it's true we've done a

2728
01:42:41,590 --> 01:42:40,800
lot we're not quite done yet um so i

2729
01:42:43,430 --> 01:42:41,600
want to make sure you get back and

2730
01:42:44,470 --> 01:42:43,440
support tim um as we close out this

2731
01:42:46,629 --> 01:42:44,480
mission let's close out this launch

2732
01:42:49,270 --> 01:42:46,639
activity today okay thanks so much we're

2733
01:42:50,790 --> 01:42:49,280
gonna leave you now with uh this video

2734
01:42:52,070 --> 01:42:50,800
um not leave you now um but we're gonna

2735
01:42:54,709 --> 01:42:52,080
check in with this video we showed it

2736
01:43:25,120 --> 01:42:54,719
earlier but this is a preview of the lsp

2737
01:43:53,350 --> 01:43:40,740
[Music]

2738
01:43:55,990 --> 01:43:54,790
obviously we're incredibly grateful for

2739
01:43:57,109 --> 01:43:56,000
the support and the service of the

2740
01:43:58,709 --> 01:43:57,119
launch services program and all that

2741
01:44:00,229 --> 01:43:58,719
they do helping make all this science

2742
01:44:01,590 --> 01:44:00,239
research and robotic exploration

2743
01:44:03,109 --> 01:44:01,600
possible we're going to send you now

2744
01:44:05,030 --> 01:44:03,119
over for an update on where we are with

2745
01:44:07,189 --> 01:44:05,040
the spacecraft daryl and nick how we

2746
01:44:08,470 --> 01:44:07,199
looking josh we're looking good so far

2747
01:44:11,270 --> 01:44:08,480
we're here at the mission director

2748
01:44:13,350 --> 01:44:11,280
center where behind us the spacecraft

2749
01:44:15,830 --> 01:44:13,360
team from the european space agency

2750
01:44:17,990 --> 01:44:15,840
continues to work uh this mission as

2751
01:44:19,510 --> 01:44:18,000
they uh are communicating with their

2752
01:44:21,830 --> 01:44:19,520
spacecraft we got a little bit of an

2753
01:44:24,550 --> 01:44:21,840
update we heard the project manager

2754
01:44:26,070 --> 01:44:24,560
cesar garcia uh talk over the audio

2755
01:44:27,910 --> 01:44:26,080
loops he gave a little bit of an update

2756
01:44:29,510 --> 01:44:27,920
yeah he confirmed that we did get

2757
01:44:31,990 --> 01:44:29,520
acquisitions said normally joshua

2758
01:44:33,910 --> 01:44:32,000
reported out so we know that uh soul

2759
01:44:36,390 --> 01:44:33,920
orbiter is on its way and at the folks

2760
01:44:38,229 --> 01:44:36,400
in germany have acquired soul orbiter at

2761
01:44:39,750 --> 01:44:38,239
the right position that tells me the

2762
01:44:41,030 --> 01:44:39,760
launch vehicle did a great job tonight

2763
01:44:42,470 --> 01:44:41,040
at delivering them in the orbit they

2764
01:44:43,990 --> 01:44:42,480
needed to head off

2765
01:44:46,070 --> 01:44:44,000
we did hear that they started their auto

2766
01:44:48,950 --> 01:44:46,080
sequences which is the software programs

2767
01:44:50,470 --> 01:44:48,960
on board of the spacecraft to get ready

2768
01:44:51,910 --> 01:44:50,480
for solar ray deployment that we're

2769
01:44:54,390 --> 01:44:51,920
waiting on

2770
01:44:56,229 --> 01:44:54,400
so that is in work and what's been

2771
01:44:58,149 --> 01:44:56,239
reported so far is that

2772
01:45:00,149 --> 01:44:58,159
all things are nominal and proceeding

2773
01:45:03,030 --> 01:45:00,159
per the timeline so we're just waiting

2774
01:45:05,830 --> 01:45:03,040
to hear from them if the solar ray

2775
01:45:08,709 --> 01:45:05,840
deployment and that they're getting good

2776
01:45:10,149 --> 01:45:08,719
sun signals about an hour and 15 minutes

2777
01:45:12,390 --> 01:45:10,159
ago we launched here from the cape

2778
01:45:13,910 --> 01:45:12,400
canaveral air force station on an atlas

2779
01:45:16,629 --> 01:45:13,920
v rocket

2780
01:45:19,830 --> 01:45:16,639
bound for the sun the solar orbiter

2781
01:45:22,629 --> 01:45:19,840
spacecraft on top it was a good flight

2782
01:45:24,070 --> 01:45:22,639
initially off the ground we saw a good

2783
01:45:25,350 --> 01:45:24,080
separation and now we're getting some

2784
01:45:26,660 --> 01:45:25,360
celebration

2785
01:45:28,070 --> 01:45:26,670
here at the nbc

2786
01:45:29,910 --> 01:45:28,080
[Applause]

2787
01:45:32,550 --> 01:45:29,920
we're getting more information on that

2788
01:45:35,030 --> 01:45:32,560
solar array deployment um

2789
01:45:36,950 --> 01:45:35,040
as you can see there we've just uh they

2790
01:45:40,149 --> 01:45:36,960
just erupted in applause on the front

2791
01:45:41,990 --> 01:45:40,159
row that is the spacecraft team

2792
01:45:43,669 --> 01:45:42,000
all from overseas

2793
01:45:48,149 --> 01:45:43,679
the european space agency and their

2794
01:45:51,669 --> 01:45:50,149
they have celebrated yeah we've seen the

2795
01:45:53,750 --> 01:45:51,679
celebration here in the mdc i haven't

2796
01:45:55,350 --> 01:45:53,760
heard anything i confirmed

2797
01:45:57,189 --> 01:45:55,360
whether solar rays were deployed or not

2798
01:45:58,709 --> 01:45:57,199
but i'm going to assume that based on

2799
01:46:00,310 --> 01:45:58,719
their celebration something in the

2800
01:46:03,270 --> 01:46:00,320
sequence happened uh the way it was

2801
01:46:05,430 --> 01:46:03,280
supposed to be so we'll continue to

2802
01:46:07,430 --> 01:46:05,440
monitor and find out what's going on but

2803
01:46:10,149 --> 01:46:07,440
uh based on that i would say things are

2804
01:46:11,669 --> 01:46:10,159
going very well for solar orbiter and uh

2805
01:46:13,750 --> 01:46:11,679
you know we'll just wait for that uh

2806
01:46:15,189 --> 01:46:13,760
confirmation verbal confirmation that

2807
01:46:17,350 --> 01:46:15,199
solar rays were

2808
01:46:20,070 --> 01:46:17,360
just deployed but uh we'll see it's been

2809
01:46:22,629 --> 01:46:20,080
an exciting night with the liftoff of uh

2810
01:46:25,189 --> 01:46:22,639
uh soul orbiter on the atlas v 411

2811
01:46:27,350 --> 01:46:25,199
vehicle and uh things are going well so

2812
01:46:29,109 --> 01:46:27,360
far so we're we're getting to that point

2813
01:46:30,790 --> 01:46:29,119
that i like to say we can really

2814
01:46:32,390 --> 01:46:30,800
celebrate that things have all gone

2815
01:46:33,669 --> 01:46:32,400
successful it's a good moment in time

2816
01:46:35,669 --> 01:46:33,679
for this mission which has been going

2817
01:46:38,310 --> 01:46:35,679
for an hour and 17 minutes now as we

2818
01:46:40,870 --> 01:46:38,320
approach uh just 20 minutes after

2819
01:46:42,550 --> 01:46:40,880
midnight here on the east coast

2820
01:46:45,030 --> 01:46:42,560
there was a there was a little bit of a

2821
01:46:46,629 --> 01:46:45,040
treat for us although we we can't quite

2822
01:46:49,990 --> 01:46:46,639
show this yet but we certainly saw it on

2823
01:46:52,950 --> 01:46:50,000
our screens where we saw the replay of a

2824
01:46:54,550 --> 01:46:52,960
spacecraft separation event

2825
01:46:56,229 --> 01:46:54,560
certainly they confirmed that there was

2826
01:46:58,790 --> 01:46:56,239
spacecraft separation but to see that

2827
01:47:01,270 --> 01:46:58,800
visually it looked really good yeah it

2828
01:47:03,510 --> 01:47:01,280
is uh the team uh had a camera on board

2829
01:47:05,350 --> 01:47:03,520
unfortunately based on the flight and

2830
01:47:07,590 --> 01:47:05,360
the orbit that we were putting solar

2831
01:47:09,189 --> 01:47:07,600
orbiter into you could not get that real

2832
01:47:11,910 --> 01:47:09,199
time and live

2833
01:47:13,350 --> 01:47:11,920
so the team had stored that in telemetry

2834
01:47:15,109 --> 01:47:13,360
downloaded it once they got over a

2835
01:47:17,430 --> 01:47:15,119
ground station that they could get that

2836
01:47:19,270 --> 01:47:17,440
they're verifying that video

2837
01:47:20,790 --> 01:47:19,280
and making sure it's all good so i'm

2838
01:47:21,669 --> 01:47:20,800
sure in the days to come you will see

2839
01:47:24,709 --> 01:47:21,679
some

2840
01:47:26,390 --> 01:47:24,719
live video of soul rovers uh separation

2841
01:47:28,550 --> 01:47:26,400
from the atlas v but

2842
01:47:30,870 --> 01:47:28,560
it's always good to get that

2843
01:47:32,790 --> 01:47:30,880
confirmation from the spacecraft and

2844
01:47:35,030 --> 01:47:32,800
from the

2845
01:47:37,590 --> 01:47:35,040
team that everything's going well and as

2846
01:47:40,790 --> 01:47:37,600
you see on the screen there we have live

2847
01:47:43,430 --> 01:47:40,800
coverage from the mdc here at ae on the

2848
01:47:46,550 --> 01:47:43,440
right hand side and on the left we have

2849
01:47:49,350 --> 01:47:46,560
a live shot of the esoc in germany from

2850
01:47:52,070 --> 01:47:49,360
the isa team so things are going well

2851
01:47:54,550 --> 01:47:52,080
there and uh hope that all is

2852
01:47:56,709 --> 01:47:54,560
progressing forward for solar ray

2853
01:47:59,350 --> 01:47:56,719
deployment on solar orbiter yeah that uh

2854
01:48:01,189 --> 01:47:59,360
esox stands for european space operation

2855
01:48:03,270 --> 01:48:01,199
center that uh that you're looking at

2856
01:48:05,109 --> 01:48:03,280
right there that is in germany and that

2857
01:48:07,990 --> 01:48:05,119
is a live view

2858
01:48:09,750 --> 01:48:08,000
of the control team there and

2859
01:48:10,870 --> 01:48:09,760
the operations that have been going on

2860
01:48:12,149 --> 01:48:10,880
there

2861
01:48:15,189 --> 01:48:12,159
those people

2862
01:48:16,870 --> 01:48:15,199
very excited because there are 22

2863
01:48:19,750 --> 01:48:16,880
different countries that all came

2864
01:48:22,950 --> 01:48:19,760
together in order to make solar orbiter

2865
01:48:25,669 --> 01:48:22,960
happen and that control room was part of

2866
01:48:27,830 --> 01:48:25,679
uh the launch today and we're getting a

2867
01:48:29,990 --> 01:48:27,840
live peek in to how they do things

2868
01:48:32,470 --> 01:48:30,000
overseas yeah and that's actually a very

2869
01:48:34,870 --> 01:48:32,480
important part of this mission the esoc

2870
01:48:37,109 --> 01:48:34,880
is where the team the isa team as you

2871
01:48:38,950 --> 01:48:37,119
stated is controlling solar orbiter

2872
01:48:41,430 --> 01:48:38,960
right now and and they're performing

2873
01:48:43,669 --> 01:48:41,440
their their sequences to get those solar

2874
01:48:46,629 --> 01:48:43,679
arrays deployed and in position

2875
01:48:48,790 --> 01:48:46,639
that team is monitoring the spacecraft

2876
01:48:51,030 --> 01:48:48,800
very closely they're communicating that

2877
01:48:52,149 --> 01:48:51,040
status back to cesar garcia here in the

2878
01:48:54,149 --> 01:48:52,159
mdc

2879
01:48:55,990 --> 01:48:54,159
and uh you know we'll hopefully hear

2880
01:48:57,030 --> 01:48:56,000
from cesar a little bit later in the

2881
01:48:59,830 --> 01:48:57,040
show here

2882
01:49:02,470 --> 01:48:59,840
but that team is is doing a lot of work

2883
01:49:04,149 --> 01:49:02,480
to make sure solar orbiter is performing

2884
01:49:06,149 --> 01:49:04,159
well and doing what they

2885
01:49:08,390 --> 01:49:06,159
have to accomplish to get solar rays out

2886
01:49:10,070 --> 01:49:08,400
so we'll continue to monitor that

2887
01:49:11,910 --> 01:49:10,080
situation and

2888
01:49:15,990 --> 01:49:11,920
see how that goes watching that very

2889
01:49:17,830 --> 01:49:16,000
closely and as we await solar deploy the

2890
01:49:19,830 --> 01:49:17,840
solar array deployment

2891
01:49:21,669 --> 01:49:19,840
certainly to have a lot of work to do in

2892
01:49:24,550 --> 01:49:21,679
the future because

2893
01:49:26,310 --> 01:49:24,560
it will be several years before solar

2894
01:49:29,189 --> 01:49:26,320
orbiter is in position to start

2895
01:49:30,390 --> 01:49:29,199
gathering data and doing its science on

2896
01:49:32,870 --> 01:49:30,400
the sun

2897
01:49:34,470 --> 01:49:32,880
so that operation center in germany that

2898
01:49:35,910 --> 01:49:34,480
you're looking at on the left

2899
01:49:37,830 --> 01:49:35,920
they've they've got a lot of work ahead

2900
01:49:39,350 --> 01:49:37,840
of them oh absolutely in the next just

2901
01:49:41,589 --> 01:49:39,360
in the next few months they have a lot

2902
01:49:43,189 --> 01:49:41,599
of checkout they want to do to verify

2903
01:49:45,109 --> 01:49:43,199
that everything is operational and

2904
01:49:47,830 --> 01:49:45,119
working after that smooth ride on the

2905
01:49:49,830 --> 01:49:47,840
atlas 5 tonight but they want to double

2906
01:49:52,390 --> 01:49:49,840
check and triple check all that stuff

2907
01:49:53,589 --> 01:49:52,400
before they head on their way make sure

2908
01:49:56,390 --> 01:49:53,599
everything is working all the

2909
01:49:58,470 --> 01:49:56,400
instruments are performing well check

2910
01:50:00,390 --> 01:49:58,480
out those little apertures that you like

2911
01:50:01,669 --> 01:50:00,400
so much on the heat

2912
01:50:03,350 --> 01:50:01,679
heat shield you know to make sure

2913
01:50:04,870 --> 01:50:03,360
they're working well right because you

2914
01:50:07,270 --> 01:50:04,880
don't want those to fail once you get to

2915
01:50:09,109 --> 01:50:07,280
the sun and so the team will be doing a

2916
01:50:11,430 --> 01:50:09,119
lot of checkout on the satellite over

2917
01:50:13,589 --> 01:50:11,440
the next few months and possibly a year

2918
01:50:16,070 --> 01:50:13,599
to get ready for that and they'll get

2919
01:50:18,470 --> 01:50:16,080
into their gravity assist

2920
01:50:19,669 --> 01:50:18,480
maneuvers around venus and then head to

2921
01:50:21,430 --> 01:50:19,679
the sun

2922
01:50:23,669 --> 01:50:21,440
and then come back and do some more work

2923
01:50:25,669 --> 01:50:23,679
and as we heard earlier in the show two

2924
01:50:26,950 --> 01:50:25,679
to four years as josh had mentioned to

2925
01:50:29,830 --> 01:50:26,960
get things

2926
01:50:31,669 --> 01:50:29,840
going so team will be working hard out

2927
01:50:34,790 --> 01:50:31,679
of that esoc and we have a lot of folks

2928
01:50:36,470 --> 01:50:34,800
here from overseas in fact during our

2929
01:50:38,950 --> 01:50:36,480
pre-launch press briefing we heard from

2930
01:50:41,750 --> 01:50:38,960
cesar garcia who told us that there were

2931
01:50:44,229 --> 01:50:41,760
800 people that had come over

2932
01:50:45,669 --> 01:50:44,239
from europe to to be here to not only

2933
01:50:47,109 --> 01:50:45,679
work this launch certainly we've got

2934
01:50:48,550 --> 01:50:47,119
many of them here in our own control

2935
01:50:50,550 --> 01:50:48,560
room which you're looking at right now

2936
01:50:53,189 --> 01:50:50,560
as they are in the front row of the

2937
01:50:55,510 --> 01:50:53,199
mission director center but also

2938
01:50:57,030 --> 01:50:55,520
throughout the space center both both as

2939
01:51:00,310 --> 01:50:57,040
uh just to

2940
01:51:02,790 --> 01:51:00,320
witness uh the launch uh to also support

2941
01:51:04,709 --> 01:51:02,800
it in many ways and we also

2942
01:51:06,550 --> 01:51:04,719
just heard an eruption of applause take

2943
01:51:07,830 --> 01:51:06,560
a look there yeah we we see them

2944
01:51:09,910 --> 01:51:07,840
applauding in the mission director's

2945
01:51:11,750 --> 01:51:09,920
center i haven't heard what that's for

2946
01:51:14,149 --> 01:51:11,760
yet but again we're assuming that's

2947
01:51:15,750 --> 01:51:14,159
phase two of the solar array deployment

2948
01:51:18,470 --> 01:51:15,760
so there's several milestones that have

2949
01:51:20,470 --> 01:51:18,480
to occur for that to uh to happen so

2950
01:51:22,870 --> 01:51:20,480
we'll uh hopefully

2951
01:51:23,990 --> 01:51:22,880
hopefully hear that soon

2952
01:51:25,910 --> 01:51:24,000
from

2953
01:51:26,870 --> 01:51:25,920
cesar garcia

2954
01:51:30,709 --> 01:51:26,880
and

2955
01:51:33,189 --> 01:51:30,719
things will be moving forward so uh

2956
01:51:34,870 --> 01:51:33,199
i'm hearing now from cesar that solar

2957
01:51:37,589 --> 01:51:34,880
rays are confirmed deployed and they are

2958
01:51:39,109 --> 01:51:37,599
power positive that's a good news so uh

2959
01:51:41,270 --> 01:51:39,119
that's why they were celebrating daryl

2960
01:51:43,430 --> 01:51:41,280
yeah very very very very good thing for

2961
01:51:46,390 --> 01:51:43,440
the mission tonight

2962
01:51:48,070 --> 01:51:46,400
and uh he certainly sounds uh excited on

2963
01:51:49,270 --> 01:51:48,080
on the nets when he just made that

2964
01:51:51,109 --> 01:51:49,280
announcement and we're in fact we're

2965
01:51:52,229 --> 01:51:51,119
going to talk to him in just a few

2966
01:51:54,550 --> 01:51:52,239
minutes

2967
01:51:56,790 --> 01:51:54,560
when cesar garcia makes his way over

2968
01:51:58,950 --> 01:51:56,800
here to the broadcast booth

2969
01:52:01,030 --> 01:51:58,960
that was a that was a pretty excited

2970
01:52:04,149 --> 01:52:01,040
report that he just gave and got a

2971
01:52:05,750 --> 01:52:04,159
congratulations from the team at nasa's

2972
01:52:07,350 --> 01:52:05,760
launch services program absolutely as

2973
01:52:09,510 --> 01:52:07,360
you see them there in the mbc they are

2974
01:52:11,430 --> 01:52:09,520
celebrating they deserve it it's been a

2975
01:52:13,830 --> 01:52:11,440
lot of years some of these folks seven

2976
01:52:15,750 --> 01:52:13,840
to eight years spent on solar orbiter

2977
01:52:17,350 --> 01:52:15,760
and uh they're very happy for this

2978
01:52:20,070 --> 01:52:17,360
tonight so that's a huge thing and

2979
01:52:22,629 --> 01:52:20,080
they'll get started uh they're happy but

2980
01:52:24,870 --> 01:52:22,639
they will uh get going in the esoc and

2981
01:52:26,790 --> 01:52:24,880
start checking things out so very happy

2982
01:52:28,790 --> 01:52:26,800
for the solar orbiter team and the

2983
01:52:30,550 --> 01:52:28,800
successful mission tonight

2984
01:52:33,030 --> 01:52:30,560
we always loved this one and as you

2985
01:52:34,870 --> 01:52:33,040
heard from omar earlier uh this is just

2986
01:52:37,510 --> 01:52:34,880
the beginning for us at launch services

2987
01:52:39,030 --> 01:52:37,520
program we've got mars 2020 coming up

2988
01:52:41,510 --> 01:52:39,040
next which is another

2989
01:52:44,950 --> 01:52:41,520
atlas v with a few more solids

2990
01:52:48,149 --> 01:52:44,960
than we had tonight but things are going

2991
01:52:49,430 --> 01:52:48,159
great for a solo orbiter so um daryl i'd

2992
01:52:51,030 --> 01:52:49,440
like to say thanks for having me on the

2993
01:52:53,189 --> 01:52:51,040
show tonight it's been a pleasure

2994
01:52:55,910 --> 01:52:53,199
working with you and and following this

2995
01:52:57,270 --> 01:52:55,920
mission as usual uh you did a great job

2996
01:52:58,550 --> 01:52:57,280
and uh thanks for having me well

2997
01:53:01,189 --> 01:52:58,560
likewise mick we appreciate your

2998
01:53:03,510 --> 01:53:01,199
expertise thank you for saying that you

2999
01:53:05,830 --> 01:53:03,520
have been a wealth of knowledge uh

3000
01:53:07,990 --> 01:53:05,840
during this entire mission and it's

3001
01:53:09,830 --> 01:53:08,000
always nice to to have somebody who

3002
01:53:12,709 --> 01:53:09,840
knows the rocket knows it well and

3003
01:53:15,510 --> 01:53:12,719
you've uh not only were giving us good

3004
01:53:17,750 --> 01:53:15,520
insight into the flight today but also

3005
01:53:19,990 --> 01:53:17,760
on the fly calculations

3006
01:53:21,350 --> 01:53:20,000
standard metric that was something to

3007
01:53:23,109 --> 01:53:21,360
behold uh

3008
01:53:25,510 --> 01:53:23,119
watching you peck away at your

3009
01:53:27,350 --> 01:53:25,520
calculator to uh to get those for us and

3010
01:53:28,790 --> 01:53:27,360
then scribbling them down just the

3011
01:53:30,870 --> 01:53:28,800
old-fashioned way

3012
01:53:32,470 --> 01:53:30,880
all right well that's gonna wrap it uh

3013
01:53:33,589 --> 01:53:32,480
for us for the moment here at the

3014
01:53:36,709 --> 01:53:33,599
mission director's center we're gonna

3015
01:53:38,629 --> 01:53:36,719
send it back to joshua and tim dunn

3016
01:53:40,629 --> 01:53:38,639
thanks darrell yes i am with tim dunn

3017
01:53:43,030 --> 01:53:40,639
again and now we can say

3018
01:53:44,950 --> 01:53:43,040
we did it we did it we did it we all did

3019
01:53:46,310 --> 01:53:44,960
it absolutely so i'm i'm just here

3020
01:53:47,510 --> 01:53:46,320
getting to share the good news but you

3021
01:53:49,350 --> 01:53:47,520
guys are doing the hard work so tim

3022
01:53:51,430 --> 01:53:49,360
congrats again to you and your team and

3023
01:53:54,470 --> 01:53:51,440
the ula team and everybody else here isa

3024
01:53:57,350 --> 01:53:54,480
and just a phenomenal effort excellent

3025
01:54:00,390 --> 01:53:57,360
no i just just got off the net with our

3026
01:54:02,950 --> 01:54:00,400
spacecraft mission director cesar garcia

3027
01:54:05,030 --> 01:54:02,960
and he as you can imagine he gave me the

3028
01:54:07,750 --> 01:54:05,040
final two milestones that the solar

3029
01:54:10,229 --> 01:54:07,760
arrays were completely deployed as well

3030
01:54:13,030 --> 01:54:10,239
as the spacecraft acquiring the sun the

3031
01:54:15,270 --> 01:54:13,040
solar rays acquiring the sun and

3032
01:54:18,070 --> 01:54:15,280
power positive meaning generating good

3033
01:54:19,910 --> 01:54:18,080
power on the vehicle vehicles healthy

3034
01:54:22,390 --> 01:54:19,920
completely healthy awesome and on its

3035
01:54:25,270 --> 01:54:22,400
way to the sun now awesome really good

3036
01:54:26,149 --> 01:54:25,280
news uh now i can celebrate there you go

3037
01:54:27,830 --> 01:54:26,159
awesome

3038
01:54:29,430 --> 01:54:27,840
do you do you all celebrate collectively

3039
01:54:31,030 --> 01:54:29,440
or do you just go home and take a nap is

3040
01:54:33,669 --> 01:54:31,040
that well is that celebration for you

3041
01:54:35,589 --> 01:54:33,679
guys given the hour of day uh we'll

3042
01:54:37,430 --> 01:54:35,599
probably uh celebrate a little bit

3043
01:54:39,109 --> 01:54:37,440
tonight go home we've got a few

3044
01:54:41,350 --> 01:54:39,119
celebrations planned for tomorrow later

3045
01:54:42,870 --> 01:54:41,360
in the day goodness yeah so practically

3046
01:54:43,669 --> 01:54:42,880
speaking on kind of the business side of

3047
01:54:46,550 --> 01:54:43,679
things

3048
01:54:49,350 --> 01:54:46,560
what happens for lsp after a launch are

3049
01:54:51,350 --> 01:54:49,360
you all just you're done and you kind of

3050
01:54:53,669 --> 01:54:51,360
you're done is there more work to do for

3051
01:54:55,910 --> 01:54:53,679
solar orbiter well for solar orbiter we

3052
01:54:58,149 --> 01:54:55,920
obviously have to review all of the data

3053
01:55:01,030 --> 01:54:58,159
from the rocket so that's a process that

3054
01:55:03,189 --> 01:55:01,040
takes uh on the order of a few weeks

3055
01:55:05,189 --> 01:55:03,199
maybe a month month and a half because

3056
01:55:08,229 --> 01:55:05,199
what we want to do is we want to look at

3057
01:55:10,709 --> 01:55:08,239
every piece every parameter every little

3058
01:55:13,189 --> 01:55:10,719
bit of data that happened tonight and in

3059
01:55:15,030 --> 01:55:13,199
flight during the countdown and flight

3060
01:55:16,870 --> 01:55:15,040
analyze it see if there's anything that

3061
01:55:19,030 --> 01:55:16,880
the data is telling us we're all a bunch

3062
01:55:20,709 --> 01:55:19,040
of engineers we want to scrutinize the

3063
01:55:22,709 --> 01:55:20,719
data and then

3064
01:55:24,310 --> 01:55:22,719
apply that and look at that if we see

3065
01:55:25,910 --> 01:55:24,320
something a little funny

3066
01:55:28,629 --> 01:55:25,920
address it before we have our next

3067
01:55:30,310 --> 01:55:28,639
launch and certainly if we the lsp team

3068
01:55:31,990 --> 01:55:30,320
find something in data we would

3069
01:55:33,589 --> 01:55:32,000
obviously share that with united launch

3070
01:55:36,229 --> 01:55:33,599
alliance and

3071
01:55:38,390 --> 01:55:36,239
likewise uh they provide us a lot of

3072
01:55:40,790 --> 01:55:38,400
very detailed data so uh getting ready

3073
01:55:42,470 --> 01:55:40,800
for mars 2020 you spoke to omar yes just

3074
01:55:45,350 --> 01:55:42,480
a bit ago we're going to be really

3075
01:55:47,990 --> 01:55:45,360
excited about flying on this magnificent

3076
01:55:50,070 --> 01:55:48,000
caucus one more time this year so

3077
01:55:52,790 --> 01:55:50,080
there's uh the you know the atlas v is

3078
01:55:54,390 --> 01:55:52,800
just incredible we love flying on it uh

3079
01:55:57,910 --> 01:55:54,400
the united launch alliance team is

3080
01:56:01,189 --> 01:55:57,920
amazing uh i would like to say uh the

3081
01:56:03,589 --> 01:56:01,199
launch services program team my team uh

3082
01:56:06,470 --> 01:56:03,599
is it's it's incredible thank you for

3083
01:56:08,950 --> 01:56:06,480
all of your dedication for many years to

3084
01:56:10,950 --> 01:56:08,960
make what happened happen tonight

3085
01:56:13,270 --> 01:56:10,960
working right alongside united launch

3086
01:56:15,430 --> 01:56:13,280
alliance and your colleagues there and

3087
01:56:17,750 --> 01:56:15,440
then we all worked alongside our

3088
01:56:21,510 --> 01:56:17,760
colleagues here at the eastern range

3089
01:56:24,149 --> 01:56:21,520
with 45th space wing and then i can't uh

3090
01:56:26,310 --> 01:56:24,159
end my comments without thanking our

3091
01:56:28,229 --> 01:56:26,320
spacecraft customer yes and in this case

3092
01:56:29,990 --> 01:56:28,239
it's the european space agency with

3093
01:56:32,550 --> 01:56:30,000
their airbus contractor who built a

3094
01:56:33,910 --> 01:56:32,560
spacecraft yes just a joy to work with

3095
01:56:36,709 --> 01:56:33,920
those guys

3096
01:56:38,550 --> 01:56:36,719
an international collaboration 10 plus

3097
01:56:41,189 --> 01:56:38,560
years in the making i know you guys have

3098
01:56:43,669 --> 01:56:41,199
been talking about that all night but a

3099
01:56:45,270 --> 01:56:43,679
lot of challenges but i tell you what

3100
01:56:47,510 --> 01:56:45,280
when a team is focused on mission

3101
01:56:50,070 --> 01:56:47,520
success that's the universal language

3102
01:56:52,950 --> 01:56:50,080
that we all speak and here we are able

3103
01:56:55,750 --> 01:56:52,960
to celebrate that yeah and i wish we

3104
01:56:57,350 --> 01:56:55,760
could somehow share something more

3105
01:56:59,109 --> 01:56:57,360
specific with people to kind of let them

3106
01:57:00,790 --> 01:56:59,119
understand what it means to thank that

3107
01:57:02,709 --> 01:57:00,800
many teams the fact that there's all

3108
01:57:05,189 --> 01:57:02,719
those teams and all of the people on

3109
01:57:07,030 --> 01:57:05,199
that doing their part right of the piece

3110
01:57:08,310 --> 01:57:07,040
the piece of the puzzle to bring it all

3111
01:57:10,629 --> 01:57:08,320
together to make this beautiful picture

3112
01:57:13,189 --> 01:57:10,639
of a spacecraft in flight on the way to

3113
01:57:14,790 --> 01:57:13,199
the sun happen so absolutely um tim

3114
01:57:16,149 --> 01:57:14,800
congratulations to you and your team all

3115
01:57:17,350 --> 01:57:16,159
right i appreciate it your service

3116
01:57:19,030 --> 01:57:17,360
appreciate everybody's hard work and

3117
01:57:20,709 --> 01:57:19,040
effort you're welcome again rocketry is

3118
01:57:22,310 --> 01:57:20,719
a team sport absolutely space flight is

3119
01:57:24,550 --> 01:57:22,320
a team sport and we've got some of the

3120
01:57:25,990 --> 01:57:24,560
best around no doubt all right thank you

3121
01:57:27,669 --> 01:57:26,000
so much josh tim i'll let you go

3122
01:57:29,189 --> 01:57:27,679
celebrate all right have a good night

3123
01:57:33,910 --> 01:57:29,199
send it back over to daryl with cesar

3124
01:57:38,709 --> 01:57:35,750
thank you joshua we're here with cesar

3125
01:57:40,629 --> 01:57:38,719
garcia the program manager for solar

3126
01:57:42,550 --> 01:57:40,639
orbiter thank you for coming over and

3127
01:57:45,350 --> 01:57:42,560
talking to us and congratulations thank

3128
01:57:46,629 --> 01:57:45,360
you very much this is a very good moment

3129
01:57:49,030 --> 01:57:46,639
yeah tell me a little bit about the

3130
01:57:50,629 --> 01:57:49,040
moment uh just a few minutes ago where

3131
01:57:53,109 --> 01:57:50,639
you made the announcement

3132
01:57:54,870 --> 01:57:53,119
yeah there's always a bit of tension

3133
01:57:57,109 --> 01:57:54,880
before you get the signal and we got the

3134
01:57:59,030 --> 01:57:57,119
signal of the spacecraft pretty quickly

3135
01:58:01,030 --> 01:57:59,040
and that's a good sign and then we had

3136
01:58:02,709 --> 01:58:01,040
to deploy and point to the sign and

3137
01:58:04,629 --> 01:58:02,719
deploy the solar arrays

3138
01:58:06,709 --> 01:58:04,639
then there was a

3139
01:58:08,310 --> 01:58:06,719
switch over of the local antennas and it

3140
01:58:10,070 --> 01:58:08,320
took a bit longer to receive the

3141
01:58:11,350 --> 01:58:10,080
information that the solaris had fully

3142
01:58:13,430 --> 01:58:11,360
deployed

3143
01:58:15,030 --> 01:58:13,440
so we were a bit tense and then we got

3144
01:58:17,430 --> 01:58:15,040
the the confirmation and then once you

3145
01:58:19,750 --> 01:58:17,440
get the confirmation then it's like well

3146
01:58:22,229 --> 01:58:19,760
the waters come and then you start

3147
01:58:23,910 --> 01:58:22,239
becoming um

3148
01:58:25,910 --> 01:58:23,920
not only let's say confident but

3149
01:58:27,750 --> 01:58:25,920
extremely happy and then it's the moment

3150
01:58:29,750 --> 01:58:27,760
when you start hanging people around

3151
01:58:31,990 --> 01:58:29,760
because this is the at the moment after

3152
01:58:34,310 --> 01:58:32,000
so many years of work nothing was saying

3153
01:58:36,470 --> 01:58:34,320
before and we are on the way to the sun

3154
01:58:38,870 --> 01:58:36,480
let's go solar orbiter it's a fantastic

3155
01:58:41,510 --> 01:58:38,880
moment and it's really something unique

3156
01:58:42,390 --> 01:58:41,520
if i may say and and you may and it was

3157
01:58:44,390 --> 01:58:42,400
certainly capped with a lot of

3158
01:58:46,390 --> 01:58:44,400
celebration saw you hugging a lot of

3159
01:58:47,910 --> 01:58:46,400
people in the room a lot of handshakes

3160
01:58:50,310 --> 01:58:47,920
and going back to the beginning of

3161
01:58:52,229 --> 01:58:50,320
launch where we launched right at 1103

3162
01:58:54,950 --> 01:58:52,239
eastern time from right here at the cape

3163
01:58:57,109 --> 01:58:54,960
canaveral air force station um what was

3164
01:58:58,629 --> 01:58:57,119
launch like for you as you kind of uh

3165
01:59:00,629 --> 01:58:58,639
experienced that

3166
01:59:02,149 --> 01:59:00,639
here inside the mission director center

3167
01:59:04,070 --> 01:59:02,159
well i have to admit that i abandoned

3168
01:59:07,510 --> 01:59:04,080
post

3169
01:59:09,510 --> 01:59:07,520
continuously throughout the year through

3170
01:59:11,910 --> 01:59:09,520
the launch but after

3171
01:59:15,030 --> 01:59:11,920
l minus 15 seconds where we cannot call

3172
01:59:17,510 --> 01:59:15,040
hold anymore so i actually

3173
01:59:19,030 --> 01:59:17,520
picked up the phone and called

3174
01:59:20,470 --> 01:59:19,040
our colleagues in izoc so that i could

3175
01:59:23,030 --> 01:59:20,480
still have permanent contact with them

3176
01:59:25,189 --> 01:59:23,040
on the phone and i will run out to see

3177
01:59:27,109 --> 01:59:25,199
the launch and it's a fantastic

3178
01:59:28,470 --> 01:59:27,119
experience first you see you know the

3179
01:59:31,270 --> 01:59:28,480
the night is

3180
01:59:33,350 --> 01:59:31,280
is lit by the by the rocket and then

3181
01:59:35,910 --> 01:59:33,360
like 15 seconds later you start feeling

3182
01:59:37,830 --> 01:59:35,920
the not hearing but feeling the roar

3183
01:59:40,390 --> 01:59:37,840
and then you see all the dreams all the

3184
01:59:42,790 --> 01:59:40,400
expectations going up in sky and it was

3185
01:59:46,390 --> 01:59:42,800
very clear sky we could see it for

3186
01:59:49,270 --> 01:59:46,400
very many seconds going south southeast

3187
01:59:51,589 --> 01:59:49,280
and um i don't know it's difficult to

3188
01:59:53,669 --> 01:59:51,599
for me to describe it but it's like well

3189
01:59:55,990 --> 01:59:53,679
it's we are unstoppable

3190
01:59:58,070 --> 01:59:56,000
you get that feeling yeah right i love

3191
01:59:59,990 --> 01:59:58,080
that you actually got up and got on the

3192
02:00:01,510 --> 02:00:00,000
phone so you could stay connected yes

3193
02:00:03,350 --> 02:00:01,520
and got outside to see a launch because

3194
02:00:05,430 --> 02:00:03,360
that is one of the most amazing things

3195
02:00:07,030 --> 02:00:05,440
about uh for folks who live here who get

3196
02:00:08,790 --> 02:00:07,040
to see these launches but even those who

3197
02:00:11,669 --> 02:00:08,800
travel here from long distances to watch

3198
02:00:13,669 --> 02:00:11,679
it it's a very unique uh experience yeah

3199
02:00:15,270 --> 02:00:13,679
yeah yeah it is i mean we've been here

3200
02:00:17,910 --> 02:00:15,280
for a few months we've been able to see

3201
02:00:20,229 --> 02:00:17,920
some other launches before

3202
02:00:21,109 --> 02:00:20,239
but nothing compares to actually seeing

3203
02:00:23,910 --> 02:00:21,119
yours

3204
02:00:25,910 --> 02:00:23,920
when your spacecraft is going up and

3205
02:00:28,229 --> 02:00:25,920
then you see as i said the dreams and

3206
02:00:30,550 --> 02:00:28,239
the expectations of so many people

3207
02:00:32,310 --> 02:00:30,560
going up with a with a with the rocket

3208
02:00:34,310 --> 02:00:32,320
and with the with the spacecraft in this

3209
02:00:36,149 --> 02:00:34,320
case right and it was fantastic to see

3210
02:00:38,070 --> 02:00:36,159
it up and then it was of course very

3211
02:00:39,189 --> 02:00:38,080
interesting to follow the trajectory

3212
02:00:40,629 --> 02:00:39,199
also through

3213
02:00:42,470 --> 02:00:40,639
the quiet moments during the costing

3214
02:00:44,070 --> 02:00:42,480
phase and then the excite

3215
02:00:46,229 --> 02:00:44,080
excitation of the end when you know

3216
02:00:47,830 --> 02:00:46,239
there is the separation and then they

3217
02:00:49,270 --> 02:00:47,840
you start getting the good signs that

3218
02:00:51,030 --> 02:00:49,280
the separation was adequate that the

3219
02:00:53,510 --> 02:00:51,040
tractor was adequate that we acquired

3220
02:00:55,189 --> 02:00:53,520
the signal and then eventually that we

3221
02:00:57,430 --> 02:00:55,199
have positive power in the spacecraft

3222
02:01:00,229 --> 02:00:57,440
now the spacecraft is safe it's pointing

3223
02:01:02,229 --> 02:01:00,239
to the sun and it's quite robust now to

3224
02:01:05,109 --> 02:01:02,239
to the next days where we'll start uh

3225
02:01:06,950 --> 02:01:05,119
operating the various uh deployables and

3226
02:01:08,950 --> 02:01:06,960
subsystems right very good and so you

3227
02:01:11,430 --> 02:01:08,960
got a lot of work ahead of you certainly

3228
02:01:13,510 --> 02:01:11,440
no doubt um the the probably the tough

3229
02:01:15,669 --> 02:01:13,520
part of space flight is over but now a

3230
02:01:18,950 --> 02:01:15,679
couple years uh before the science

3231
02:01:20,950 --> 02:01:18,960
starts right yeah well uh the first uh

3232
02:01:22,870 --> 02:01:20,960
few days are critical where we do the

3233
02:01:25,589 --> 02:01:22,880
the basic deployments and the basic

3234
02:01:26,629 --> 02:01:25,599
tests then through during february we

3235
02:01:29,669 --> 02:01:26,639
will do

3236
02:01:32,310 --> 02:01:29,679
again a complete checkout of all the

3237
02:01:34,070 --> 02:01:32,320
systems and slowly we will start

3238
02:01:35,750 --> 02:01:34,080
switching on the instruments

3239
02:01:37,510 --> 02:01:35,760
we will be making sure that the

3240
02:01:39,830 --> 02:01:37,520
instruments are operational that they

3241
02:01:43,109 --> 02:01:39,840
can as well change modes of operation

3242
02:01:46,709 --> 02:01:43,119
and so on and we expect to finalize this

3243
02:01:48,629 --> 02:01:46,719
phase of testing uh in june end of june

3244
02:01:49,669 --> 02:01:48,639
uh however we can some of the

3245
02:01:51,030 --> 02:01:49,679
instruments will start measuring

3246
02:01:52,629 --> 02:01:51,040
immediately but some instruments will

3247
02:01:56,629 --> 02:01:52,639
wait a bit longer

3248
02:01:58,550 --> 02:01:56,639
until the volatiles in the underwater

3249
02:02:01,270 --> 02:01:58,560
will evaporate or split from the

3250
02:02:02,870 --> 02:02:01,280
spacecraft uh but yeah in like in three

3251
02:02:04,950 --> 02:02:02,880
months we will be able to start taking

3252
02:02:07,270 --> 02:02:04,960
science data well that's exciting

3253
02:02:08,629 --> 02:02:07,280
that early yeah yeah very good i mean we

3254
02:02:11,510 --> 02:02:08,639
always talk

3255
02:02:13,030 --> 02:02:11,520
say well we want to wait for one 1.8

3256
02:02:15,589 --> 02:02:13,040
years until

3257
02:02:18,149 --> 02:02:15,599
the perihelium is gets closer but i

3258
02:02:20,629 --> 02:02:18,159
think our scientists will not wait uh

3259
02:02:22,709 --> 02:02:20,639
they will start immediately to take

3260
02:02:24,950 --> 02:02:22,719
data and i'm sure that it will stop very

3261
02:02:26,310 --> 02:02:24,960
very clearly too to learn from the sun

3262
02:02:28,390 --> 02:02:26,320
fire up those instruments you got it

3263
02:02:29,830 --> 02:02:28,400
pointed at the sun i've seen some data

3264
02:02:32,950 --> 02:02:29,840
right absolutely well you're going to

3265
02:02:34,550 --> 02:02:32,960
leave here certainly uh a changed person

3266
02:02:37,270 --> 02:02:34,560
right because i believe that you've uh i

3267
02:02:39,589 --> 02:02:37,280
got some kind of tattoo oh yeah you want

3268
02:02:41,830 --> 02:02:39,599
to show that yeah i can show this yeah

3269
02:02:43,669 --> 02:02:41,840
that's a solar orbiter

3270
02:02:45,750 --> 02:02:43,679
temporary tactical temperature it's a

3271
02:02:47,990 --> 02:02:45,760
pain it's a painless tattoo and i think

3272
02:02:50,870 --> 02:02:48,000
i will wear it with pride oh very good

3273
02:02:52,629 --> 02:02:50,880
don't wash it off for a long time well i

3274
02:02:53,990 --> 02:02:52,639
might have to take a shower one of those

3275
02:02:55,910 --> 02:02:54,000
days

3276
02:02:57,510 --> 02:02:55,920
well certainly your spacecraft's going

3277
02:02:59,189 --> 02:02:57,520
to leave quite the imprint on our

3278
02:03:01,430 --> 02:02:59,199
scientific community we get we're very

3279
02:03:03,510 --> 02:03:01,440
excited to get that data back and and

3280
02:03:05,750 --> 02:03:03,520
learn a lot more about the star that

3281
02:03:07,510 --> 02:03:05,760
keeps us alive yeah i think this is the

3282
02:03:09,750 --> 02:03:07,520
purpose of this mission is the purpose

3283
02:03:12,070 --> 02:03:09,760
of all the missions before us and then

3284
02:03:14,550 --> 02:03:12,080
of uh missions that will come it's the

3285
02:03:17,430 --> 02:03:14,560
purpose of ground instrumentation which

3286
02:03:20,070 --> 02:03:17,440
is also investigating the sand

3287
02:03:22,070 --> 02:03:20,080
and i think the it's a growing community

3288
02:03:24,070 --> 02:03:22,080
space weather is coming very strong we

3289
02:03:26,790 --> 02:03:24,080
will we will need to understand our star

3290
02:03:28,149 --> 02:03:26,800
much better so that we can support

3291
02:03:29,669 --> 02:03:28,159
our infrastructure but also our

3292
02:03:32,629 --> 02:03:29,679
astronauts as they go deeper into the

3293
02:03:35,350 --> 02:03:32,639
solar system so this is a growing field

3294
02:03:37,030 --> 02:03:35,360
absolutely cesar garcia program manager

3295
02:03:38,629 --> 02:03:37,040
for solar orbiter and it's very pleasing

3296
02:03:40,149 --> 02:03:38,639
to be with you tonight it's good to see

3297
02:03:42,070 --> 02:03:40,159
you again thank you congratulations

3298
02:03:44,149 --> 02:03:42,080
thank you all right joshua we'll throw

3299
02:03:45,669 --> 02:03:44,159
it back to you in the asoc hey daryl

3300
02:03:47,910 --> 02:03:45,679
thank you so much tonight for all your

3301
02:03:50,229 --> 02:03:47,920
help and mick as well laura franklin

3302
02:03:51,830 --> 02:03:50,239
blair uh everybody uh what a phenomenal

3303
02:03:53,750 --> 02:03:51,840
show this is going to conclude our live

3304
02:03:55,350 --> 02:03:53,760
coverage of the launch of solar orbiter

3305
02:03:56,950 --> 02:03:55,360
destined to unlock secrets of the sun

3306
02:03:58,950 --> 02:03:56,960
and provide a better understanding of

3307
02:04:00,629 --> 02:03:58,960
our planetary community community for

3308
02:04:03,189 --> 02:04:00,639
more information about solar orbiter

3309
02:04:04,550 --> 02:04:03,199
mission visit nasa.gov

3310
02:04:05,750 --> 02:04:04,560
a huge thanks to the guests who joined

3311
02:04:08,390 --> 02:04:05,760
us tonight and the men and women from

3312
02:04:09,990 --> 02:04:08,400
both issa nasa united launch alliance

3313
02:04:11,430 --> 02:04:10,000
and everybody else who worked diligently

3314
02:04:13,669 --> 02:04:11,440
behind the scenes to make this broadcast

3315
02:04:15,350 --> 02:04:13,679
happen we couldn't do without you

3316
02:04:16,629 --> 02:04:15,360
i'm joshua santora from all of us here

3317
02:04:18,470 --> 02:04:16,639
at the kennedy space center and cape

3318
02:04:20,229 --> 02:04:18,480
canaveral air force station thank you

3319
02:04:22,229 --> 02:04:20,239
for joining us we wish you a very good

3320
02:04:24,310 --> 02:04:22,239
morning enjoy these beautiful replays of

3321
02:04:27,270 --> 02:04:24,320
solar orbiter's launch to view the sun

3322
02:04:32,310 --> 02:04:27,280
in unprecedented ways and remember even

3323
02:04:35,990 --> 02:04:33,830
there you heard the final status check

3324
02:04:39,270 --> 02:04:36,000
for booster centaur and spacecraft

3325
02:04:42,790 --> 02:04:39,280
everything is go and so here we go

3326
02:04:43,830 --> 02:04:42,800
t minus 10 seconds nine eight

3327
02:04:44,790 --> 02:04:43,840
seven

3328
02:04:45,750 --> 02:04:44,800
six

3329
02:04:46,709 --> 02:04:45,760
five

3330
02:04:47,669 --> 02:04:46,719
four

3331
02:04:48,629 --> 02:04:47,679
three

3332
02:04:49,510 --> 02:04:48,639
two

3333
02:04:51,510 --> 02:04:49,520
one

3334
02:04:53,270 --> 02:04:51,520
zero

3335
02:04:55,750 --> 02:04:53,280
and lift off

3336
02:04:58,310 --> 02:04:55,760
of our solar orbiter and international

3337
02:04:59,910 --> 02:04:58,320
collaboration to give us new images and

3338
02:05:17,910 --> 02:04:59,920
a better understanding of our

3339
02:05:20,950 --> 02:05:19,750
chamber pressure on the srv looks good

3340
02:05:22,950 --> 02:05:20,960
engine operating parameters on the