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.
There will be a prelaunch press conference for MAVEN at 1 p.m. EST today on NASA TV. Participants are Geoffrey Yoder, NASA deputy associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate; Omar Baez, NASA launch director; Vernon Thorp, United Launch Alliance's program manager for NASA missions; David Mitchell, NASA's MAVEN project manager; Guy Beutelschies, Lockheed Martin's MAVEN project manager; and Clay Flinn, launch weather officer, …
MAVEN cleared its last mission review today as NASA and contractor managers gave a "go" today at the Launch Readiness Review to proceed to launch Monday at 1:28 p.m. EST, the beginning of a 2-hour launch window for the Mars-bound spacecraft. The weather forecast for Monday remains at a 60 percent change of acceptable conditions …
Controllers turned on the MAVEN spacecraft today as the spacecraft and the Atlas V rocket that will send it to Mars continue on track for launch Monday at 1:28 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The NASA and United Launch Alliance launch teams performed a successful …
Former Star Trek actor LeVar Burton shares MAVEN's story. Burton has been a lifelong advocate of education through his many STEM initiatives and participation in educational programming. He is also known worldwide as Geordi LeForge, chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," as Kunta Kinte in the breakthrough mini-series "Roots" …
Interviews with MAVEN's scientific and launch teams detail the goals for the Mars-bound spacecraft and the years of work that went into building the spacecraft and then getting ready to launch it.
MAVEN's launch day forecast calls for a 60 percent chance of acceptable conditions at the opening of the launch window Monday at 1:28 p.m. EST. Concerns are centered on a cold front that is expected to near Florida on Monday and possibly disrupt the weather around Cape Canaveral with thick clouds and possible showers. In …
