| New Horizons: Third stage burn |
Posted: January 20, 2006
Duration: 5 min 58 sec
After coasting for a few minutes in the parking orbit, the Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket's Centaur second stage was re-ignited to propel New Horizons out of Earth orbit. This movie covers the completion of Centaur's second burn, spin up, separation and firing of the solid-fuel ATK Star 48 third stage provided by Boeing, and then deployment of New Horizons to conclude the launch. |  |
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| Stardust: Sample return news briefing |
Posted: January 19, 2006
Duration: 58 min 43 sec
With the comet sample return capsule from the Stardust mission now at its curation facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, scientists hold this news conference January 19 to discuss what the spacecraft's collector tray looks like, cometary impacts it withstood and much more. |  |
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| New Horizons: Post-launch news conference |
Posted: January 19, 2006
Duration: 17 min 54 sec
With New Horizons safely on its way to Pluto, mission managers gather for the post-launch news conference two hours after the Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral.
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| New Horizon launch pad camera view |
Posted: January 19, 2006
Duration: 7 sec
A camera at the base of launch pad 41 captures the launch of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft atop a Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket. The probe will arrive at Pluto in 2015 after a 3.6 billion mile journey. |  |
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| New Horizons: NASA launch manager |
Posted: January 19, 2006
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
NASA Launch Manager Omar Baez is interviewed by Kennedy Space Center spokesman Bruce Buckingham a few minutes after the successful deployment of New Horizons. Baez talks about results of the launch and the challenges of the past few days that had delayed mission. |  |
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| New Horizons: Spacecraft separation |
Posted: January 19, 2006
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
The New Horizons spacecraft is successfully deployed from the third stage motor, completing the probe's launch from Earth for the start of a nine-year voyage to Pluto. |  |
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| New Horizons: Solid rocket booster separation |
Posted: January 19, 2006
Duration: 36 sec
The five solid rocket boosters that gave a powerful kick at liftoff burn out of propellant and successfully separation from the Atlas 5 vehicle as seen live with a ground tracking camera. |  |
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| New Horizons launch viewed from the Press Site |
Posted: January 19, 2006
Duration: 39 sec
The launch of NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto is viewed from the launch complex 39 press site at the Kennedy Space Center. The Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket launched from launch complex 41 at Cape Canaveral. |  |
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| Atlas rocket blasts off with New Horizons probe |
Posted: January 19, 2006
Duration: 3 min 44 sec
NASA's New Horizon mission to Pluto lifts off atop a Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket. The probe launched at 2 p.m. EST from launch complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. |  |
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| New Horizons: Atlas 5 launch campaign |
Posted: January 18, 2006
Duration: 5 min 33 sec
Footage of the Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket being assembled for launch of the New Horizons spacecraft is compiled into this movie. Mission Integration Manager Mike Stelzer provides expert narration. |  |
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| New Horizons: Spacecraft launch campaign |
Posted: January 18, 2006
Duration: 5 min 58 sec
Footage of the New Horizons spacecraft's time at Kennedy Space Center being readied for launch is compiled into this movie. Mission Systems Engineer Dave Kusnierkiewicz provides expert narration. |  |
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| New Horizons: Launch scrubbed |
Posted: January 17, 2006
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Unacceptably strong winds at the Complex 41 launch pad forces a scrub in the launch of Lockheed Martin's Atlas 5 rocket and the New Horizons spacecraft. Liftoff was targeted for the end of the day's window but the winds exceeded the 33-knot limit, prompting an abort of the countdown at T-minus 2 minutes, 34 seconds. |  |
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| NASA administrator news conference |
Posted: January 17, 2006
Duration: 26 min 51 sec
NASA Administrator Mike Griffin and his deputy Shana Dale hold a news conference at Kennedy Space Center in the final hours of the countdown to the New Horizons launch. Questions from reporters ranged from the Pluto-bound mission, the agency's budget and the space shuttle program. |  |
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| Project scientist Hal Weaver discusses the New Horizons mission |
Posted: January 17, 2006
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Project Scientist Hal Weaver of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, discusses the scientific merrits of the New Horizons mission to the distant planet Pluto. |  |
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| New Horizons: Time-lapse of rollout |
Posted: January 16, 2006
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
This time-lapse footage speeds up the 40-minute rollout of the Atlas 5 rocket from its assembly building to the launch pad. The movie was shot from a camera mound east of the pad against the Atlantic Ocean. |  |
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| New Horizons: Rocket rolls to the pad |
Posted: January 16, 2006
Duration: 5 min 54 sec
New Horizons moves ever closer to departing Earth on a three billion mile voyage to Pluto. The Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket carrying the spacecraft was rolled from Vertical Integration Facility assembly building to the pad at Complex 41 on the eve of launch. |  |
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| New Horizons: The instruments (part 2) |
Posted: January 16, 2006
Duration: 15 min 30 sec
The briefing on New Horizons' science instruments continues with part 2. This news conference from January 15 includes Andrew Cheng, LORRI instrument principal investigator, Ralph McNutt Jr., PEPSSI instrument principal investigator, David McComas, SWAP instrument principal investigator and Tiffany Finley, Student Dust Counter project manager. |  |
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| New Horizons: The instruments (part 1) |
Posted: January 16, 2006
Duration: 19 min 51 sec
Learn more about the suite of science instruments aboard the New Horizons spacecraft. This news conference from January 15 includes Hal Weaver, New Horizons project scientist, Dennis Reuter, Ralph instrument scientist, Alan Stern, Alice instrument principal investigator and Len Tyler, REX principal investigator. |  |
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| New Horizons: Mission science briefing |
Posted: January 16, 2006
Duration: 34 min 47 sec
A New Horizons mission science news conference was held at Kennedy Space Center on January 15 with participants Melissa McGrath, deputy director of NASA's solar system division, Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, and science team co-investigators Richard Binzel, William McKinnon, Dale Cruikshank and Fran Bagenal. The briefing discusses the science objectives of the New Horizons mission. |  |
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| New Horizons: Launch preview |
Posted: January 15, 2006
Duration: 36 min 42 sec
Preview the launch of Lockheed Martin's Atlas 5 rocket carrying NASA's New Horizons spacecraft bound for Pluto with this narrated animation package detailing the key events of ascent. |  |
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