Hola amigos: A VUELO DE UN QUINDE EL BLOG., hemos recibido información de la Agencia Espacial NASA, sobre el lanzamiento de sus naves NASA’s MMS misión - MMS, impulsadas por el cohete : The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
NASA, nos dice : " El cohete United Launch Alliance Atlas V con la nave espacial de la NASA Magnetosférica Multiescala (MMS) lanza a bordo de la Estación de Lanzamiento Espacial de la Fuerza Aérea de Cabo Cañaveral Complejo 41, Jueves, 12 de marzo 2015, Florida. Misión MMS de la NASA estudia el misterio de cómo los campos magnéticos alrededor de la Tierra a conectar y desconectar, liberando energía en forma explosiva a través de un proceso conocido como reconexión magnética. MMS consta de cuatro naves espaciales idénticas que trabajan juntos para proporcionar la primera vista tridimensional de este proceso fundamental, que se produce en todo el universo....."
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NASA's MMS Spacecraft Launches on an Atlas V Rocket
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Magnetospheric
Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft onboard launches from the Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, March 12, 2015, Florida. NASA’s MMS
mission studies the mystery of how magnetic fields around Earth connect and
disconnect, explosively releasing energy via a process known as magnetic
reconnection. MMS consists of four identical spacecraft that work together to
provide the first three-dimensional view of this fundamental process, which
occurs throughout the universe.
Image Credit: NASA/Aubrey
Gemignani
NASA Spacecraft in Earth’s Orbit, Preparing to Study
Magnetic Reconnection
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with
NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft onboard launches from the Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, March 12, 2015,
Florida.
Image Credit:
NASA
Following
a successful launch at 10:44 p.m. EDT Thursday, NASA’s four Magnetospheric
Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft are positioned in Earth’s orbit to begin the first
space mission dedicated to the study of a phenomenon called magnetic
reconnection. This process is thought to be the catalyst for some of the most
powerful explosions in our solar system.
The spacecraft, positioned one on top of the other on a United Launch
Alliance Atlas V 421 rocket, launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,
Florida. After reaching orbit, each spacecraft deployed from the rocket’s upper
stage sequentially, in five-minute increments, beginning at 12:16 a.m. Friday,
with the last separation occurring at 12:31 a.m. NASA scientists and engineers
were able to confirm the health of all separated spacecraft at 12:40 a.m.
"I am speaking for the entire MMS team when I say we’re thrilled to see all
four of our spacecraft have deployed and data indicates we have a healthy
fleet,” said Craig Tooley, project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
in Greenbelt, Maryland.
As an Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch
Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in the background, the launch can
also be seen on the countdown clock at the Kennedy Space Center's Press Site.
The rocket is carrying NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, spacecraft.
Image Credit:
NASA/Frankie Martin
Over
the next several weeks, NASA scientists and engineers will deploy booms and
antennas on the spacecraft, and test all instruments. The observatories will
later be placed into a pyramid formation in preparation for science
observations, which are expected to begin in early September.
“After a decade of planning and engineering, the science team is ready to go
to work,” said Jim Burch, principal investigator for the MMS instrument suite
science team at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio (SwRI). “We’ve
never had this type of opportunity to study this fundamental process in such
detail.”
The mission will provide the first three-dimensional views of reconnection
occurring in Earth's protective magnetic space environment, the magnetosphere.
Magnetic reconnection occurs when magnetic fields connect, disconnect, and
reconfigure explosively, releasing bursts of energy that can reach the order of
billions of megatons of trinitrotoluene (commonly known as TNT). These
explosions can send particles surging through space near the speed of light.
Scientists expect the mission will not only help them better understand
magnetic reconnection, but also will provide insight into these powerful events,
which can disrupt modern technological systems such as communications networks,
GPS navigation, and electrical power grids.
By studying reconnection in this local, natural laboratory, scientists can
understand the process elsewhere, such as in the atmosphere of the sun and other
stars, in the vicinity of black holes and neutron stars, and at the boundary
between our solar system's heliosphere and interstellar space.
Artist's concept of the MMS observatory fleet with
rainbow magnetic lines.
Image Credit:
NASA
The
spacecraft will fly in a tight formation through regions of reconnection
activity. Using sensors designed to measure the space environment at rates100
times faster than any previous mission.
“MMS is a crucial next step in advancing the science of magnetic reconnection
– and no mission has ever observed this fundamental process with such detail,”
said Jeff Newmark, interim director for NASA’s Heliophysics Division at the
agency’s Headquarters in Washington. “The depth and detail of our knowledge is
going to grow by leaps and bounds, in ways that no one can yet predict.”
MMS is the fourth mission in the NASA Solar Terrestrial Probes Program.
Goddard built, integrated and tested the four MMS spacecraft and is responsible
for overall mission management and operations. The principal investigator for
the MMS instrument suite science team is based at the SwRI. Science operations
planning and instrument commanding are performed at the MMS Science Operations
Center at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and
Space Physics.
More information about the MMS mission is available at:
Launch of Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft Aboard
Atlas V Rocket
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Magnetospheric
Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft onboard launches from the Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, March 12, 2015, Florida. NASA’s
MMS mission studies the mystery of how magnetic fields around Earth connect
and disconnect, explosively releasing energy via a process known as magnetic
reconnection. MMS consists of four identical spacecraft that work together to
provide the first three-dimensional view of this fundamental process, which
occurs throughout the universe.
Photo Credit: NASA/Aubrey
Gemignani
NASA
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