| CALIPSO/CloudSat: The launch experience |
Posted: April 29, 2006
Duration: 16 min 50 sec
This long-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 CALIPSO and CloudSat spacecraft from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The video takes you through the arrival in orbit when the second stage engine completes its initial firing. |  |
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| CALIPSO/CloudSat: Post-launch comments |
Posted: April 28, 2006
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Following the deployment of the CALIPSO and CloudSat spacecraft by the Delta 2 rocket, NASA Launch Manager Chuck Dovale talks about the long road to fly this mission and sweet feeling of successful. |  |
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| CloudSat deployed from Delta rocket |
Posted: April 28, 2006
Duration: 37 sec
The CloudSat spacecraft, which will serve as a CAT scan to reveal the inner workings of clouds, is successfully deployed from the Boeing Delta 2 rocket's second stage to complete the launch. |  |
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| CALIPSO deployed from Delta rocket |
Posted: April 28, 2006
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) spacecraft is released from the Boeing Delta 2 rocket's second stage, beginning its mission that will generate a global picture of aerosol particles suspended in the atmosphere. |  |
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| CALIPSO/CloudSat: Behind the pad |
Posted: April 28, 2006
Duration: 36 sec
A camera positioned on the backside of the Space Launch Complex-2 West pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base provides this angle of the CALIPSO/CloudSat liftoff aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket.
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| CALIPSO/CloudSat: Tower camera |
Posted: April 28, 2006
Duration: 17 sec
A video camera mounted on the Space Launch Complex 2 mobile service tower captures this view of the Boeing Delta 2 rocket igniting and lifting off with CALIPSO and CloudSat spacecraft. |  |
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| CALIPSO/CloudSat: Liftoff! |
Posted: April 28, 2006
Duration: 3 min 5 sec
The Boeing Delta 2 rocket carrying the CALIPSO and CloudSat atmospheric research spacecraft lifts off at 3:02 a.m. local time April 28 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. |  |
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| CALIPSO/CloudSat: Launch scrubbed again |
Posted: April 25, 2006
Duration: 46 sec
Unfavorable high-altitude winds force the Boeing Delta 2 rocket launch of CALIPSO and CloudSat to be scrubbed on April 25. The decision was announced just moments before the countdown was expected to resume ticking at T-minus 4 minutes. |  |
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| CALIPSO/CloudSat: Delta 2 rocket engine steering check |
Posted: April 25, 2006
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
This movie shows the Boeing Delta 2 rocket undergoing an engine steering test during the April 25 countdown for the CALIPSO and CloudSat launch. Close-up cameras at the Space Launch Complex 2 watch as the first stage RS-27A main engine nozzle and vernier thrusters are gimbaled to ensure all is working properly to steer the rocket during flight. |  |
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| CALIPSO/CloudSat: Tower rollback |
Posted: April 25, 2006
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
In preparation for the April 25 launch attempt for CALIPSO and CloudSat, the mobile service tower at Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex 2 is rolled back to reveal the Boeing Delta 2 rocket. |  |
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| CALIPSO/CloudSat: Rocket launch campaign |
Posted: April 23, 2006
Duration: 6 min 37 sec
Watch Boeing technicians assemble the Delta 2 rocket for launch of the CALIPSO and CloudSat spacecraft in this narrated movie. The stages are hoisted into the Space Launch Complex 2-West launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Then the payloads were mounted atop the vehicle and enclosed within the rocket's nose cone. |  |
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| CALIPSO/CloudSat: Science preview |
Posted: April 19, 2006
Duration: 42 min 4 sec
Learn about the science objectives of the CALIPSO and CloudSat spacecraft that are seeking new insights into clouds, aerosols and the Earth's atmosphere. The satellites are scheduled to be launched from California on April 21. |  |
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| CALIPSO/CloudSat: Pre-launch news conference |
Posted: April 19, 2006
Duration: 35 min 10 sec
A Boeing Delta 2 rocket will launch the CALIPSO and CloudSat environmental research satellites for NASA. In this pre-launch news conference held April 19 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, officials discuss the countdown, the rocket's flight, weather outlook and the satellites' missions. |  |
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