The countdown is on schedule to day to resume at 11:18 a.m. EST after launch teams confirmed they are ready to begin filling the Atlas V booster and Centaur upper stage with cryogenic – super-cold – propellants.
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Omar Baez, the NASA Launch Manager, received a "go" from his launch team to load the cryogenic propellants. The United Launch Alliance will next poll the Atlas V team. Everything remains on schedule to launch at 1:28 p.m. EST.
Good morning from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida where the weather is warm, the sky is blue with some thin cloud streaks and MAVEN stands atop an Atlas V rocket poised to head to Mars! The launch teams here report everything is on track for a liftoff at 1:28 p.m. EST. If some …
At T-2 hours, the countdown clocks have paused for 30 minutes. Everything remains on schedule for launch at 1:28 p.m. EST. The countdown will resume at 11:18 EST and the launch team will begin the steps to load cryogenic propellants into the Atlas V first stage and Centaur upper stage.
Here's a look at the Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida this morning where the Atlas V with MAVEN aboard is going through launch preparations. Our continuous coverage here on the NASA Launch Blog and NASA TV's coverage of the countdown will begin at 11 a.m.
Take a look at the rollout of the Atlas V rocket carrying MAVEN from the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
MAVEN's launch team began today's countdown on schedule at 6:28 a.m. Managers from NASA and United Launch Alliance are overseeing today's preparations and launch of the MAVEN spacecraft to Mars atop an Atlas V-401 and Centaur upper stage. Liftoff remains on schedule for 1:28 p.m. EST, the start of a 2-hour launch window. Our continuous countdown …
The Atlas V rocket with MAVEN aboard will be rolled from the Vertical Integration Facility or VIF, pictured with the Atlas V inside, to the launch pad at Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Saturday morning. Technicians will connect a battery of umbilicals and make the other connections necessary to set …
From installing the solar arrays and instruments to covering the high-gain antenna and packaging the spacecraft inside its payload fairing – not to mention all the intensive testing involved – see in about two minutes what took MAVEN engineers months of careful, precise work to accomplish before the spacecraft is sent into space.
