NASA en Español : Lanzada con Éxito la Misión CYGNSS Para Estudiar Huracanes

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15.12.16.- Una constelación de ocho microsatélites, correspondientes a la misión CYGNSS de la NASA fue lanzada el jueves 15 de Diciembre a las 13:37 GMT a bordo de un cohete Pegasus XL de Orbital. El lanzamiento de la flota de ocho microsatélites tiene por objetivo predecir y medir mejor la potencia de las tormentas tropicales y los huracanes.

La misión CYGNSS despegó a bordo de un cohete de tres etapas Pegasus XL de Orbital ATK, lanzado desde un avión modificado L-1011, "Stargazer", que despegó de la pista de Skid Strip en la Estación de la Fuerza Aérea de Cabo Cañaveral en Florida. Cuando el avión se encontraba a casi 12 kilómetros de altura, tuvo lugar el despegue del Pegasus XL, a unos 200 kilómetros al este-noreste de Daytona Beach.

 

La misión CYGNSS fue lanzada desde un avión modificado por un cohete Pegasus XL que viajó en la "barriga" del avión hasta situarse a la altura correcta. Después fue liberado el cohete y lanzado. Image Credit: NASA TV

 

Sólo 13 minutos después del lanzamiento, el primer par de microsatélites CYGNSS fue desplegado, y el resto de dos en dos cada 30 segundos.

El equipo espera empezar a obtener datos científicos la próxima semana. Habrá una fase de puesta en marcha de uno a dos meses en los que se controlará y se realizarán varias maniobras hasta que cada uno de los microsatélites sea puesto en su posición final.

Se espera que la constelación CYGNSS entre en funcionamiento a tiempo para la temporada de huracanes del 2017.

 

View of NASA's CYGNSS Hurricane Mission Launch From Chase Plane

Hurricane forecasters will soon have a new tool to better understand and forecast storm intensity. A constellation of eight microsatellites, called NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System mission, or CYGNSS, got a boost into Earth orbit at 8:37 a.m. EST today, Dec. 15, 2016, aboard an Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket.

 

The unique, air-launched vehicle was carried aloft by Orbital’s modified L-1011 aircraft, “Stargazer,” which took off from the Skid Strip runway at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and deployed the three-stage Pegasus XL rocket at a predetermined drop point 39,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean and about 110 nautical miles east-northeast of Daytona Beach.

NASA’s F-18 support aircraft was used to provide live coverage of the Orbital ATK L-1011 air-launch of its Pegasus XL rocket carrying CYGNSS. This photo was taken by Armstrong videographer, Lori Losey, as the AFRC F-18 chased Orbital’s L-1011 carrier aircraft.

Image Credit: NASA/Lori Losey

Last Updated: Dec. 15, 2016

Editor: Sarah Loff

Tags:  Armstrong Flight Research Center, CYGNSS (Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System), Image of the Day, Launches,

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NASA - Preparing IRIS Spacecraft for Launch

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Preparing NASA's Next Solar Satellite for Launch

Orbital Sciences team members move the second half of the payload fairing before it is placed over NASA's IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) spacecraft. The fairing connects to the nose of the Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket that will lift the solar observatory into orbit. The work is taking place in a hangar at Vandenberg Air Force Base, where IRIS is being prepared for launch on a Pegasus XL rocket.

Scheduled for launch from Vandenberg on June 26, 2013, IRIS will open a new window of discovery by tracing the flow of energy and plasma through the chromospheres and transition region into the sun's corona using spectrometry and imaging. IRIS fills a crucial gap in our ability to advance studies of the sun-to-Earth connection by tracing the flow of energy and plasma through the foundation of the corona and the region around the sun known as the heliosphere.

Photo Credit: NASA/Tony Vauclin

NASA Schedules Media Events and Coverage for New Solar Mission Launch

 

 

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission is scheduled to launch at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, June 26, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Launch on an Orbital Sciences Corporation Pegasus XL rocket is targeted for the middle of a five-minute launch window. Live NASA Television coverage of the launch begins at 6 p.m. PDT (9 p.m. EDT). NASA TV also will air an IRIS prelaunch news conference and science briefing beginning at noon PDT (3 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday, June 25.

IRIS is a NASA Small Explorer Mission to observe how solar material moves, gathers energy and heats up as it travels through a little-understood region in the sun's lower atmosphere. This interface region between the sun's photosphere and corona powers its dynamic million-degree atmosphere and drives the solar wind.

The drop of the air-launched Pegasus from Orbital's L-1011 carrier aircraft will occur over the Pacific Ocean at an altitude of 39,000 feet, about 100 miles northwest of Vandenberg off the central coast of California, south of Big Sur.

The IRIS News Center at Kennedy's Vandenberg Resident Office will be staffed starting Monday, June 24 and may be reached between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at 805-605-3051.

For complete details on media registration, media events, and live launch coverage on NASA Television, visit:

http://go.nasa.gov/13L6djG

NASA also will host a Google+ Hangout at 1:30 p.m. EDT June 25, on the IRIS mission. Social media followers may submit questions on Twitter and Google+ in advance and during the event using the hashtag #askNASA.

Before the hangout begins, NASA will open a thread on its Facebook page where questions may be posted. The hangout can be viewed live on NASA's Google+ page, the NASA Television YouTube channel or NASA TV. For more information and to join the hangout, visit:

http://go.nasa.gov/17039WY

Extensive prelaunch and launch day coverage of the IRIS spacecraft will be available on NASA's home page at:

http://www.nasa.gov

To view the IRIS webcast and launch blog, and learn more about the mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/iris

 

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