| STEREO: Spacecraft show 3-D anatomy of a solar storm |
Posted: April 14, 2009
Duration: 32 min 11 sec
NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft have provided scientists with their first view of the speed, trajectory, and three-dimensional shape of powerful explosions from the sun known as coronal mass ejections. |  |
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| STEREO's first 3-D images of the Sun |
Posted: April 23, 2007
Duration: 32 min
NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft have made the first three-dimensional images of the Sun. Scientists unveil the images in this news conference held April 23. |  |
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| STEREO: The launch experience |
Posted: October 26, 2006
Duration: 9 min 26 sec
This longer-length movie captures the thrill of launch. As the countdown resumes from the T-minus 4 minute hold, watch as the Boeing launch team readies the Delta 2 rocket for liftoff carrying the STEREO spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The video takes you through the complete first stage burn and ignition of the second stage. |  |
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| STEREO: Rocket launch campaign |
Posted: October 26, 2006
Duration: 7 min 14 sec
Watch Boeing technicians assemble the Delta 2 rocket for launch of the STEREO solar observatory mission in this narrated movie. The stages are hoisted into pad 17B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base. Then the payload was mounted atop the vehicle and enclosed within the rocket's nose cone. |  |
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| STEREO: Satellite launch campaign |
Posted: October 26, 2006
Duration: 6 min 53 sec
See how the twin STEREO solar satellites were prepared for their launch into space in this narrated movie of footage shot during the pre-flight campaign at the Cape. |  |
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| STEREO: Post-launch rocket report |
Posted: October 25, 2006
Duration: 4 min 29 sec
NASA launch manager Omar Baez gives a progress report on the STEREO mission following deployment of the space observatories from the Delta rocket. |  |
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| STEREO: Launch! |
Posted: October 25, 2006
Duration: 3 min 25 sec
The twin STEREO space observatories designed to change the way we view the sun launch from Cape Canaveral aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket. |  |
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| STEREO: Tower rollback |
Posted: October 25, 2006
Duration: 3 min 42 sec
About eight hours before launch of STEREO, the mobile service tower at Cape Canaveral's pad 17B is rolled back to reveal the Boeing Delta 2 rocket. |  |
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| STEREO: Science preview briefing |
Posted: October 24, 2006
Duration: 42 min 41 sec
Scientists on NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) mission explain the instruments carried on the satellites and what they expect to learn about the sun during the unique project. |  |
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| STEREO: Pre-launch news briefing |
Posted: October 24, 2006
Duration: 42 min 26 sec
The pre-launch news conference for NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) mission is held October 24 at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Briefers discuss the preparations leading up to liftoff of the Boeing Delta 2 rocket with the twin STEREO spacecraft to study the sun. |  |
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| STEREO: Rocket nose cone installed |
Posted: October 24, 2006
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
The 10-foot diameter composite nose cone of the Boeing Delta 2 rocket is installed in two halves around the STEREO observatories during the final days before launch. The shroud covers the satellites during ascent through the atmosphere. |  |
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| STEREO: Observatories uncanned |
Posted: October 24, 2006
Duration: 5 min 4 sec
After the STEREO spacecraft were mounted atop the Boeing Delta 2 rocket, the protective transportation canister enclosing the satellites is removed by pad technicians. |  |
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| STEREO: Trip to the launch pad |
Posted: October 24, 2006
Duration: 5 min 27 sec
In the predawn hours of October 11, the STEREO spacecraft were transported from the AstroTech processing facility to launch pad 17B. At sunrise, the payload was hoisted into the pad tower and mated to the Delta 2 rocket. |  |
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| STEREO: First solid motors attached to Delta 2 launcher |
Posted: June 25, 2006
Duration: 8 min 22 sec
The first set of three strap-on solid-fuel motors for the Boeing Delta 2 rocket to launch STEREO is attached to the first stage. The Delta 2 will feature a total of 9 strap-on boosters for the upcoming mission. |  |
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| STEREO: Delta rocket stacking begins at pad 17B |
Posted: June 25, 2006
Duration: 5 min 41 sec
The first stage of the Boeing Delta 2 rocket that will launch NASA's twin STEREO solar observing spacecraft is erected atop pad 17B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. |  |
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| STEREO: Unpacking after arrival |
Posted: May 11, 2006
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
After entering the cleanroom at the Astrotech pre-launch facility, technicians unpack the two STEREO satellites. They will be launched this summer aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket to provide the first 3-D "stereo" views of the sun and solar wind. |  |
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| STEREO: Spacecraft arrive in Florida |
Posted: May 11, 2006
Duration: 7 min 43 sec
NASA's twin STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) spacecraft arrive via truck at the Astrotech processing facility outside Kennedy Space Center for final pre-launch testing and preparations. |  |
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| STEREO: Animation previews mission |
Posted: November 14, 2005
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory mission, depicted in this animation, consists of two nearly identical STEREO satellites launched aboard one rocket to provide 3-D measurements of the Sun for studying coronal mass ejections and the solar wind. |  |
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| STEREO: Spacecraft assembly |
Posted: November 14, 2005
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Technicians and engineers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory assemble the two STEREO spacecraft for their upcoming launch to study the Sun and solar wind. |  |
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