1 00:00:39,089 --> 00:00:54,804 ♪♪ 2 00:00:54,804 --> 00:00:55,138 3 00:00:55,138 --> 00:01:00,977 >> WELCOME TO THE KENNEDY SPACE 4 00:01:00,977 --> 00:01:05,815 CENTER AS WE CELEBRATE THE SOLAR 5 00:01:05,815 --> 00:01:09,018 ORBITER, BETWEEN THE SPACE 6 00:01:09,018 --> 00:01:11,187 AGENCY AND NASA. 7 00:01:11,187 --> 00:01:13,656 IT WAS DEVELOPED BY AIRBUS, AND 8 00:01:13,656 --> 00:01:15,125 IT WILL CAPTURE THE FIRST IMAGES 9 00:01:15,125 --> 00:01:16,292 OF THE POLES. 10 00:01:16,292 --> 00:01:18,962 AND IT'S MANAGING THE LAUNCH 11 00:01:18,962 --> 00:01:21,064 OPERATIONS, AND LIFT-OFF IS 12 00:01:21,064 --> 00:01:23,600 TARGETED FOR SUNDAY, AT 11:03 13 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:25,435 P.M. EASTERN TIME AT SPACE 14 00:01:25,435 --> 00:01:28,505 LAUNCH COMPLEX 41 AT THE NEWLY 15 00:01:28,505 --> 00:01:32,342 NAMED CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE 16 00:01:32,342 --> 00:01:32,876 STATION. 17 00:01:32,876 --> 00:01:35,011 THE ROCKET IS THE UNITED LAUNCH 18 00:01:35,011 --> 00:01:41,050 ALLIANCE ATLAS 5. 19 00:01:41,050 --> 00:01:43,753 I'VE GOT A PANEL JOINING ME TO 20 00:01:43,753 --> 00:01:45,722 THE LEFT. 21 00:01:45,722 --> 00:01:47,824 CAESAR GARCIA FROM THE EUROPEAN 22 00:01:47,824 --> 00:01:49,626 SPACE AGENCY. 23 00:01:49,626 --> 00:01:52,061 NEXT TO HIM IS IAN WALTERS 24 00:01:52,061 --> 00:01:53,429 PROJECT MANAGER FOR SOLAR 25 00:01:53,429 --> 00:01:55,131 ORBITER AND HE'S WITH AIRBUS 26 00:01:55,131 --> 00:01:56,432 DEFENSE AND SPACE. 27 00:01:56,432 --> 00:02:01,738 NEXT TO HIM IS ALAN ZIY, A 28 00:02:01,738 --> 00:02:03,072 PROGRAM EXECUTIVE AT NASA 29 00:02:03,072 --> 00:02:05,208 HEADQUARTERS AND TO HIS LEFT, 30 00:02:05,208 --> 00:02:07,811 TIM DUNN, NASA'S LAUNCH DIRECTOR 31 00:02:07,811 --> 00:02:09,345 FOR THIS MISSION FOLLOWED BY 32 00:02:09,345 --> 00:02:14,918 SCOTT MESSER, NASA LSP FOR 33 00:02:14,918 --> 00:02:16,519 UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE AND LAST 34 00:02:16,519 --> 00:02:18,655 BUT NOT LEAST, JESSICA WILLIAMS, 35 00:02:18,655 --> 00:02:21,291 LAUNCH OFFICER FROM THE 45TH 36 00:02:21,291 --> 00:02:23,092 SPACE WING AT CAPE CANAVERAL 37 00:02:23,092 --> 00:02:24,194 SPACE FORCE STATION. 38 00:02:24,194 --> 00:02:25,595 WE'LL START WITH BRIEF OPENING 39 00:02:25,595 --> 00:02:26,563 COMMENTS AND THEN WE'LL TAKE 40 00:02:26,563 --> 00:02:28,064 YOUR QUESTIONS AND CAESAR, LET'S 41 00:02:28,064 --> 00:02:29,532 START WITH YOU, YOU'VE GOT THE 42 00:02:29,532 --> 00:02:30,300 MISSION DOWN HERE. 43 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:31,501 IT'S AN EXCITING ONE. 44 00:02:31,501 --> 00:02:33,203 YOU WERE JUST TELLING ME IT'S 45 00:02:33,203 --> 00:02:35,004 BEEN 25 YEARS SINCE YOU'VE 46 00:02:35,004 --> 00:02:37,006 LAUNCHED HERE AT THE NASA 47 00:02:37,006 --> 00:02:37,874 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. 48 00:02:37,874 --> 00:02:40,176 >> NOT ME PERSONALLY, BUT THE 49 00:02:40,176 --> 00:02:42,612 EUROPEAN STATION LAUNCHED FROM 50 00:02:42,612 --> 00:02:43,079 HERE. 51 00:02:43,079 --> 00:02:44,647 THAT WAS ALSO A MISSION TO 52 00:02:44,647 --> 00:02:46,416 OBSERVE THE SUN. 53 00:02:46,416 --> 00:02:47,984 AND ALSO BUILT IN EUROPE LIKE 54 00:02:47,984 --> 00:02:50,420 THIS ONE AND ALSO LAUNCHED FROM 55 00:02:50,420 --> 00:02:52,121 HERE WITH THE U.S. LAUNCHER 56 00:02:52,121 --> 00:02:52,488 VEHICLE. 57 00:02:52,488 --> 00:02:53,256 SO IT'S INTERESTING THAT WE'RE 58 00:02:53,256 --> 00:02:53,990 HERE TODAY FOR THIS. 59 00:02:53,990 --> 00:02:54,490 >> VERY GOOD. 60 00:02:54,490 --> 00:02:55,825 CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT 61 00:02:55,825 --> 00:02:56,492 THE MISSION? 62 00:02:56,492 --> 00:02:57,694 >> OKAY, MAYBE WE CAN SEE SOME 63 00:02:57,694 --> 00:03:02,498 OF THE CHARTS THAT WE PREPARED. 64 00:03:02,498 --> 00:03:03,066 OKAY. 65 00:03:03,066 --> 00:03:03,833 THE-- 66 00:03:03,833 --> 00:03:05,435 OKAY, SO THE FIRST -- WE WANTED 67 00:03:05,435 --> 00:03:10,206 TO SHOW YOU SOME PHOTOS OF THE 68 00:03:10,206 --> 00:03:12,508 SPACECRAFT AS IT WAS A COUPLE OF 69 00:03:12,508 --> 00:03:13,676 DAYS AGO AND WE HAVE A 70 00:03:13,676 --> 00:03:15,311 SPACECRAFT AND WE'LL TALK MORE 71 00:03:15,311 --> 00:03:18,114 IN DETAIL ABOUT IT WHICH LOOKS 72 00:03:18,114 --> 00:03:20,850 BEAUTIFUL WITHIN THE FARING, AND 73 00:03:20,850 --> 00:03:23,519 I LIKE PARTICULARY THE PHOTO ON 74 00:03:23,519 --> 00:03:26,656 THE RIGHT TAKEN ONCE THE 75 00:03:26,656 --> 00:03:28,391 SPACECRAFT WAS SURROUNDED BY THE 76 00:03:28,391 --> 00:03:28,992 FARING. 77 00:03:28,992 --> 00:03:30,927 ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF 78 00:03:30,927 --> 00:03:33,263 OUR MISSION IS WE HAVE TO BE 79 00:03:33,263 --> 00:03:35,231 EXTREMELY CLEAN SO THAT THE 80 00:03:35,231 --> 00:03:36,599 INSTRUMENTS CAN WORK IN SPACE 81 00:03:36,599 --> 00:03:39,168 AND WE HAVE ACHIEVED THAT AND WE 82 00:03:39,168 --> 00:03:42,238 HAVE CERTIFIED THAT YESTERDAY 83 00:03:42,238 --> 00:03:43,940 AND EVERYTHING IS CLEAN FOR THE 84 00:03:43,940 --> 00:03:44,540 MISSION. 85 00:03:44,540 --> 00:03:49,045 AS WE MOVE TO THE NEXT PICTURE, 86 00:03:49,045 --> 00:03:52,682 AS WE DID ALREADY TURN YEARS 87 00:03:52,682 --> 00:03:54,984 AGO, THE SOLAR ORBITER IS AN 88 00:03:54,984 --> 00:03:56,386 INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION AND 89 00:03:56,386 --> 00:03:57,787 THIS IS ALSO ONE OF THE KEY 90 00:03:57,787 --> 00:03:59,689 FEATURES OF MOST OF THE MISSIONS 91 00:03:59,689 --> 00:04:01,491 WE DO IN EUROPE AND IN THIS CASE 92 00:04:01,491 --> 00:04:03,826 ALSO WITH NASA, NOT ONLY TWO BIG 93 00:04:03,826 --> 00:04:06,029 AGENCIES WORKING TOGETHER, BUT 94 00:04:06,029 --> 00:04:09,332 ALSO INSTRUMENTS AND VARIOUS 95 00:04:09,332 --> 00:04:12,902 COUNTRIES WITHIN EUROPE AND HERE 96 00:04:12,902 --> 00:04:15,138 IN THE STATES AND THIS IS A 97 00:04:15,138 --> 00:04:16,906 UNIQUE MISSION, WE'VE BEEN ABLE 98 00:04:16,906 --> 00:04:19,208 TO PUT ALL OF THESE TO WORK 99 00:04:19,208 --> 00:04:24,747 TOGETHER AND ACTUALLY THEY ALSO 100 00:04:24,747 --> 00:04:27,583 WORK TOGETHER IN ORBITER BECAUSE 101 00:04:27,583 --> 00:04:31,020 WHEN ONE DETECTS AN INTERESTING 102 00:04:31,020 --> 00:04:35,458 FIGURE, IT HAS THE OTHER 103 00:04:35,458 --> 00:04:37,627 INSTRUMENTS LOOK AT IT IN THE 104 00:04:37,627 --> 00:04:38,962 SENSITIVITY OF THE INSTRUMENT. 105 00:04:38,962 --> 00:04:40,964 AS WE MOVE TO THE NEXT -- OKAY. 106 00:04:40,964 --> 00:04:45,468 SO I MENTIONED THAT WE HAVE 107 00:04:45,468 --> 00:04:47,503 INSTRUMENTS, TEN INSTRUMENTS ON 108 00:04:47,503 --> 00:04:49,872 THE MISSION AND WE DIVIDE INTO 109 00:04:49,872 --> 00:04:54,410 TWO MAJOR CATEGORIES. 110 00:04:54,410 --> 00:04:57,914 ONE WE MEASURE AND THE 111 00:04:57,914 --> 00:04:58,915 SPACECRAFT ITSELF. 112 00:04:58,915 --> 00:05:00,750 THE MAGNETIC FIELD OF THE 113 00:05:00,750 --> 00:05:02,085 SPACECRAFT AND ALL THE PARTICLES 114 00:05:02,085 --> 00:05:03,119 THAT COME FROM THE SUN AND WE 115 00:05:03,119 --> 00:05:05,755 ALSO HAVE INSTRUMENTS WE CALL 116 00:05:05,755 --> 00:05:06,956 REMOTE SCIENCE. 117 00:05:06,956 --> 00:05:09,025 REMOTE INSTRUMENTS TAKEN LIKE 118 00:05:09,025 --> 00:05:10,426 YOU GUYS ARE DOING NOW, THEY 119 00:05:10,426 --> 00:05:14,163 TAKE IMAGES FROM THE SUN. 120 00:05:14,163 --> 00:05:17,900 THEY TAKE IMAGES FROM THE 121 00:05:17,900 --> 00:05:20,203 ULTRAVIOLET RANGE AND X-RAY AND 122 00:05:20,203 --> 00:05:22,572 IMAGES NOT ONLY FROM THE SUN 123 00:05:22,572 --> 00:05:23,072 ITSELF. 124 00:05:23,072 --> 00:05:24,374 THEY BLOCK THE SUN. 125 00:05:24,374 --> 00:05:27,343 THEY TAKE IMAGES OF THE CORONA 126 00:05:27,343 --> 00:05:29,145 OF THE SUN AND THEY TAKE IMAGES 127 00:05:29,145 --> 00:05:31,948 OF THE LIGHT SCATTERED IN THE 128 00:05:31,948 --> 00:05:33,783 SOLAR WINDS LOOKING SIDE WAYS 129 00:05:33,783 --> 00:05:34,984 FROM THE SPACECRAFT. 130 00:05:34,984 --> 00:05:37,987 SO IT'S A WIDE RANGE OF 131 00:05:37,987 --> 00:05:38,688 INSTRUMENTS. 132 00:05:38,688 --> 00:05:40,990 ALTOGETHER TAKING VERY, YOU 133 00:05:40,990 --> 00:05:42,925 KNOW, UNIQUE MEASUREMENTS AND 134 00:05:42,925 --> 00:05:44,994 IMAGES FROM THE SUN. 135 00:05:44,994 --> 00:05:47,864 IF WE MOVE -- THERE IS ANOTHER, 136 00:05:47,864 --> 00:05:50,600 TO THE NEXT PRESENTATION. 137 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:51,067 OKAY. 138 00:05:51,067 --> 00:05:52,201 HOW DO WE GET THERE? 139 00:05:52,201 --> 00:05:54,904 HOW CAN WE ACTUALLY DO IT? 140 00:05:54,904 --> 00:05:57,607 WE LAUNCH FROM HERE WITH ATLAS 141 00:05:57,607 --> 00:06:00,610 FIVE AND PUTS US IN THE SOLAR OR 142 00:06:00,610 --> 00:06:06,315 BIT, AND IN THE SUN, WHAT WE 143 00:06:06,315 --> 00:06:08,818 CALL THE MINIMUM DISTANCE TO THE 144 00:06:08,818 --> 00:06:09,252 SUN. 145 00:06:09,252 --> 00:06:11,821 SO AFTER A FEW YEARS, WE REDUCE 146 00:06:11,821 --> 00:06:14,223 THAT DISTANCE TO ABOUT THE 147 00:06:14,223 --> 00:06:15,458 DISTANCE BETWEEN THE SUN AND 148 00:06:15,458 --> 00:06:16,926 MERCURY AND THAT WILL ALLOW US 149 00:06:16,926 --> 00:06:18,928 TO TAKE UNPRECEDENTED IMAGES OF 150 00:06:18,928 --> 00:06:20,897 THE SUN. 151 00:06:20,897 --> 00:06:22,298 AT THE SAME TIME WE WILL USE 152 00:06:22,298 --> 00:06:26,002 VENUS TO DO SLINGSHOT MANEUVERS 153 00:06:26,002 --> 00:06:29,205 AROUND IT TO CHANGE THE ORBITAL 154 00:06:29,205 --> 00:06:31,040 PLANE SO THE IMAGE WILL LOOK AT 155 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:32,308 THE PULSE OF THE SUN AND THIS 156 00:06:32,308 --> 00:06:33,543 WILL BE THE FIRST TIME EVER THAT 157 00:06:33,543 --> 00:06:36,012 WE WILL BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THE 158 00:06:36,012 --> 00:06:37,380 SOLAR POLES. 159 00:06:37,380 --> 00:06:37,880 OKAY. 160 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,917 MAYBE IF WE MOVE TO THE NEXT 161 00:06:40,917 --> 00:06:41,651 PHOTOGRAPH. 162 00:06:41,651 --> 00:06:42,952 I THINK WITH THIS, THE LAST 163 00:06:42,952 --> 00:06:44,220 THING THAT I WANTED TO REALLY 164 00:06:44,220 --> 00:06:45,555 SAY ABOUT OUR MISSION IS THAT 165 00:06:45,555 --> 00:06:47,056 ONCE WE LAUNCH AND ONCE WE 166 00:06:47,056 --> 00:06:48,391 SEPARATE FROM THE SPACECRAFT, 167 00:06:48,391 --> 00:06:50,526 ALL THE OPERATIONS WILL BE RUN 168 00:06:50,526 --> 00:06:55,398 FROM ESA, EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY 169 00:06:55,398 --> 00:06:55,998 CENTER IN GERMANY. 170 00:06:55,998 --> 00:06:58,334 WHAT YOU SEE IN THE IMAGE IS THE 171 00:06:58,334 --> 00:06:59,235 CONTROL CENTER. 172 00:06:59,235 --> 00:07:00,837 THEY GET READY AND WE DID A 173 00:07:00,837 --> 00:07:02,972 DRESS REHEARSAL WITH OUR CONTROL 174 00:07:02,972 --> 00:07:05,274 CENTER AND COMMUNICATION BETWEEN 175 00:07:05,274 --> 00:07:07,310 THE SPACECRAFT AND GROUND WILL 176 00:07:07,310 --> 00:07:12,415 BE DONE VIA ANTENNA ABOUT 100 177 00:07:12,415 --> 00:07:14,417 FEET WIDE AND PLACED IN 178 00:07:14,417 --> 00:07:15,852 LOCATIONS AROUND THE EARTH. 179 00:07:15,852 --> 00:07:17,253 WE'RE USING MOSTLY ONE OF THE 180 00:07:17,253 --> 00:07:20,156 THREE ANTENNAS, AND WE WILL BE 181 00:07:20,156 --> 00:07:22,325 ABLE TO TALK TO OUR SPACECRAFT 182 00:07:22,325 --> 00:07:23,593 EIGHT HOURS A DAY AND THIS IS 183 00:07:23,593 --> 00:07:24,927 THE GRAND SUMMARY OF THE 184 00:07:24,927 --> 00:07:25,428 MISSION. 185 00:07:25,428 --> 00:07:29,665 >> A LOT OF TALK TIME WITH THAT, 186 00:07:29,665 --> 00:07:31,033 THAT'S GOOD AND THEY TALK TO 187 00:07:31,033 --> 00:07:32,301 EACH OTHER, THAT'S GOOD. 188 00:07:32,301 --> 00:07:33,870 THANK YOU, CESAR. 189 00:07:33,870 --> 00:07:35,505 IAN, TELL US MORE ABOUT THE 190 00:07:35,505 --> 00:07:36,806 INSTRUMENTS IN THE SPACECRAFT 191 00:07:36,806 --> 00:07:37,306 ITSELF. 192 00:07:37,306 --> 00:07:39,142 >> WELL, THE SPACECRAFT IS 193 00:07:39,142 --> 00:07:40,676 REALLY BUILT AROUND THE IDEA 194 00:07:40,676 --> 00:07:42,311 THAT WE HIDE BEHIND A HEAT 195 00:07:42,311 --> 00:07:43,746 SHIELD FOR THE WHOLE MISSION 196 00:07:43,746 --> 00:07:45,047 BECAUSE THE TEMPERATURES ARE SO 197 00:07:45,047 --> 00:07:47,016 HIGH, WE COULDN'T EASILY BUILD A 198 00:07:47,016 --> 00:07:48,384 SPACECRAFT THAT COULD TOLERATE 199 00:07:48,384 --> 00:07:49,385 THOSE TEMPERATURES. 200 00:07:49,385 --> 00:07:52,021 SO WE BUILT A HEAT SHIELD THAT 201 00:07:52,021 --> 00:07:54,290 CAN TOLERATE THE TEMPERATURES 202 00:07:54,290 --> 00:07:56,425 AND WE HIDE BEHIND THAT SHIELD. 203 00:07:56,425 --> 00:07:58,728 AND AS WE GO TO THE NEXT 204 00:07:58,728 --> 00:08:00,129 PHOTOGRAPH YOU'LL SEE THAT 205 00:08:00,129 --> 00:08:00,530 CLEARLY. 206 00:08:00,530 --> 00:08:01,964 AND HERE YOU SEE THE HEAT 207 00:08:01,964 --> 00:08:03,733 SHIELD, A BIG RECTANGULAR THING 208 00:08:03,733 --> 00:08:05,334 ON FRONT OF THE SPACECRAFT. 209 00:08:05,334 --> 00:08:06,869 BEHIND THE SPACECRAFT -- BEHIND 210 00:08:06,869 --> 00:08:08,504 THE HEAT SHIELD THE REST OF THE 211 00:08:08,504 --> 00:08:10,273 SPACECRAFT IS HIDING AND WE HAVE 212 00:08:10,273 --> 00:08:12,208 TO KEEP THAT POINTING AT THE SUN 213 00:08:12,208 --> 00:08:13,876 FOR THE ENTIRE DURATION UNLESS 214 00:08:13,876 --> 00:08:14,744 WE'RE DOING MANEUVERS AND THE 215 00:08:14,744 --> 00:08:17,580 REASON IS, AS I SAID, WE DON'T-- 216 00:08:17,580 --> 00:08:19,682 ABLE TO EASILY TOLERATE ANY HEAT 217 00:08:19,682 --> 00:08:21,851 ON THE SIDES OF THE SPACECRAFT. 218 00:08:21,851 --> 00:08:24,453 SO THAT HEAT SHIELD GETS UP TO 219 00:08:24,453 --> 00:08:28,090 ABOUT 600 DEGREES CENTIGRADE, 220 00:08:28,090 --> 00:08:31,861 THAT'S MORE THAN 1,000 DEGREES. 221 00:08:31,861 --> 00:08:33,896 AND WE DO SOMETHING THAT PARKER 222 00:08:33,896 --> 00:08:40,570 DOESN'T DO AND THAT'S OPEN 223 00:08:40,570 --> 00:08:42,004 APERTURES AND TAKES PICTURES OF 224 00:08:42,004 --> 00:08:42,605 THE SUN. 225 00:08:42,605 --> 00:08:48,311 AND PARKER COULD NOT DO IT 226 00:08:48,311 --> 00:08:49,779 BECAUSE IT'S TOO HOT, BUT WEEK 227 00:08:49,779 --> 00:08:52,181 DO IT IN THE INTENSELY HEATED 228 00:08:52,181 --> 00:08:53,082 ENVIRONMENT. 229 00:08:53,082 --> 00:08:54,183 THE INSTRUMENTS ITSELF GET RID 230 00:08:54,183 --> 00:08:55,785 OF THE HEAT QUICKLY AND WE DO 231 00:08:55,785 --> 00:08:58,421 THIS WITH A SPECIAL TECHNOLOGY 232 00:08:58,421 --> 00:09:00,823 WHICH WE CALL A RADIATOR 233 00:09:00,823 --> 00:09:01,991 ASSEMBLY AND TAKES THE HEAT AS 234 00:09:01,991 --> 00:09:03,759 FAST AS POSSIBLE, CONDUCTS IT 235 00:09:03,759 --> 00:09:05,795 VERY EFFICIENTLY THROUGH THE 236 00:09:05,795 --> 00:09:06,929 SIDE OF THE SPACECRAFT. 237 00:09:06,929 --> 00:09:08,564 AND IF WE MAYBE JUMP BACK TO 238 00:09:08,564 --> 00:09:10,199 THAT SLIDE AGAIN, IT'S 239 00:09:10,199 --> 00:09:11,500 CLASSICALLY GOT THE SOLAR 240 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:12,201 ARRAYS. 241 00:09:12,201 --> 00:09:13,736 YOU DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH 242 00:09:13,736 --> 00:09:15,171 POWER WHEN YOU'RE THAT CLOSE TO 243 00:09:15,171 --> 00:09:15,738 THE SUN. 244 00:09:15,738 --> 00:09:17,106 WHAT YOU HAVE IS A TEMPERATURE 245 00:09:17,106 --> 00:09:17,573 PROBLEM. 246 00:09:17,573 --> 00:09:19,308 SO IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT 247 00:09:19,308 --> 00:09:21,410 THE SOLAR ARRAYS ARE NOT 248 00:09:21,410 --> 00:09:22,878 SUFFERING FROM THE EXTREME 249 00:09:22,878 --> 00:09:24,247 TEMPERATURE THE HEAT SHIELD GETS 250 00:09:24,247 --> 00:09:25,214 TO BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T 251 00:09:25,214 --> 00:09:26,649 TOLERATE THOSE TEMPERATURES, WE 252 00:09:26,649 --> 00:09:29,085 ALSO HAVE TO TILT THE SOLAR 253 00:09:29,085 --> 00:09:30,853 ARRAYS AWAY FROM THE SUN. 254 00:09:30,853 --> 00:09:33,155 SO THE FLY IS ALMOST EDGE ON 255 00:09:33,155 --> 00:09:35,825 WHEN WE'RE CLOSE TO THE SUN. 256 00:09:35,825 --> 00:09:38,694 AN ANGLE 78 DEGREES AWAY FROM 257 00:09:38,694 --> 00:09:41,063 THE SUN LINE WHICH IS QUITE AN 258 00:09:41,063 --> 00:09:43,199 EXTREME DEGREE ANGLE WITH THE 259 00:09:43,199 --> 00:09:46,068 SOLAR ARRAYS. 260 00:09:46,068 --> 00:09:49,071 YOU CAN SEE TWO, THREE, RATHER, 261 00:09:49,071 --> 00:09:52,108 LONG ANTENNAS OUTSIDE OF THE 262 00:09:52,108 --> 00:09:52,541 SIDE. 263 00:09:52,541 --> 00:09:55,811 THE WAVE ANTENNAS, LOOKING FOR 264 00:09:55,811 --> 00:09:57,947 RADIO SIGNALS IN THE PLASMA AND 265 00:09:57,947 --> 00:09:59,615 YOU CAN JUST ABOUT MAKE OUT AN 266 00:09:59,615 --> 00:10:00,850 INSTRUMENT BOOM AND YOU CAN SEE 267 00:10:00,850 --> 00:10:03,386 IT BETTER IN THE VIDEO IN A 268 00:10:03,386 --> 00:10:03,986 MINUTE. 269 00:10:03,986 --> 00:10:05,354 THAT'S OVER FOUR METERS LONG AND 270 00:10:05,354 --> 00:10:07,056 CONTAINS AS WELL THE SENSITIVE 271 00:10:07,056 --> 00:10:08,457 INSTRUMENTS THAT WANT TO BE AS 272 00:10:08,457 --> 00:10:10,593 FAR AWAY FROM THE SPACECRAFT AS 273 00:10:10,593 --> 00:10:12,395 POSSIBLE AND WE PUT THEM ON A 274 00:10:12,395 --> 00:10:13,429 LONG BOOM. 275 00:10:13,429 --> 00:10:15,031 AND NOW IS PROBABLY A GOOD TIME 276 00:10:15,031 --> 00:10:16,866 TO GO TO THE VIDEO. 277 00:10:16,866 --> 00:10:18,834 SO THIS VIDEO SHOWS THE SEQUENCE 278 00:10:18,834 --> 00:10:20,403 OF EVENTS THAT WILL HAPPEN 279 00:10:20,403 --> 00:10:21,537 IMMEDIATELY AFTER LAUNCH BECAUSE 280 00:10:21,537 --> 00:10:23,806 OF COURSE, THE LAUNCH IS A 281 00:10:23,806 --> 00:10:25,441 FANTASTIC EVENT, BUT IMMEDIATELY 282 00:10:25,441 --> 00:10:26,976 AFTER THAT, A NUMBER OF VERY 283 00:10:26,976 --> 00:10:28,477 INTERESTING THINGS WILL HAPPEN 284 00:10:28,477 --> 00:10:29,512 TO THE SPACECRAFT. 285 00:10:29,512 --> 00:10:31,781 A LOT OF THEM, IN FACT, 286 00:10:31,781 --> 00:10:32,281 AUTOMATIC. 287 00:10:32,281 --> 00:10:33,549 THE FIRST THING THAT HAPPENS, 288 00:10:33,549 --> 00:10:35,184 I'M SURE AS IS MENTIONED LATER 289 00:10:35,184 --> 00:10:36,819 IS THE FARING WILL SEPARATE 290 00:10:36,819 --> 00:10:38,554 BECAUSE ONCE YOU GET TO A 291 00:10:38,554 --> 00:10:40,056 CERTAIN LOAD IN THE ATMOSPHERE, 292 00:10:40,056 --> 00:10:41,657 THE SPACECRAFT ITSELF CAN 293 00:10:41,657 --> 00:10:43,192 TOLERATE THE HEATING AND FLY 294 00:10:43,192 --> 00:10:44,460 FREE FROM THE FARING. 295 00:10:44,460 --> 00:10:46,562 THE NEXT ACTIVITY IS TO 296 00:10:46,562 --> 00:10:48,164 CELEBRATE FROM THE UPPER STAGE, 297 00:10:48,164 --> 00:10:50,800 THE CENTRAL STAGE AND THEN WE'RE 298 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,836 FREE FLYING AND THEN WE START AN 299 00:10:53,836 --> 00:10:55,371 AUTOMATIC SOFTWARE PROGRAM, THE 300 00:10:55,371 --> 00:10:56,839 FIRST THING THAT IT WILL DO IS 301 00:10:56,839 --> 00:10:58,574 TO RELEASE THE SOLAR ARRAYS AS 302 00:10:58,574 --> 00:11:00,876 SHOWN HERE AND WHEN THEY'RE 303 00:11:00,876 --> 00:11:02,378 RELEASED WE DRY THEM OUT UNTIL 304 00:11:02,378 --> 00:11:06,415 THEY'RE FULLY EXPANDED. 305 00:11:06,415 --> 00:11:08,718 AND THEN THE SOLAR ARRAYS, WE'VE 306 00:11:08,718 --> 00:11:10,386 USED THAT TECHNOLOGY BEFORE FOR 307 00:11:10,386 --> 00:11:12,121 THE MERCURY MISSION, WE FLU 18 308 00:11:12,121 --> 00:11:17,860 MONTHS OGG AGO ON THE WAY TO 309 00:11:17,860 --> 00:11:18,928 MERCURY RIGHT NOW. 310 00:11:18,928 --> 00:11:22,832 AND THEN THE ANTENNAS, AND THE 311 00:11:22,832 --> 00:11:25,000 BOOM, AND DEPLOY THE ANTENNA ON 312 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:26,569 TOP AND THEN THE BOOM AND 313 00:11:26,569 --> 00:11:28,537 RETATING THE SPACECRAFT AND GET 314 00:11:28,537 --> 00:11:30,005 A NICE THERMAL ENVIRONMENT 315 00:11:30,005 --> 00:11:31,340 BECAUSE WE WANT THE HINGES TO BE 316 00:11:31,340 --> 00:11:33,008 WARM AND SECOND AND THIRD 317 00:11:33,008 --> 00:11:34,744 ANTENNA IS DEPLOYED AND ALL OF 318 00:11:34,744 --> 00:11:36,345 THIS IS THREE OR FOUR HOURS 319 00:11:36,345 --> 00:11:37,146 IMMEDIATELY AFTER LAUNCH. 320 00:11:37,146 --> 00:11:38,748 A LOT OF EXCITING STUFF STILL 321 00:11:38,748 --> 00:11:39,548 GOING ON. 322 00:11:39,548 --> 00:11:41,150 AND THEN THE LAST THING WE'LL DO 323 00:11:41,150 --> 00:11:43,352 IS DEPLOY THE HIGH ANTENNA, YOU 324 00:11:43,352 --> 00:11:45,488 CAN SEE THE BOTTOM TWO METER 325 00:11:45,488 --> 00:11:49,892 DISH WE USE TO TRANSMIT DATA 326 00:11:49,892 --> 00:11:51,660 BACK TO THE EARTH AND DEPLOY 327 00:11:51,660 --> 00:11:52,695 THAT THE SECOND DAY. 328 00:11:52,695 --> 00:11:53,929 THEN THE FRONT OF THE HEAT 329 00:11:53,929 --> 00:11:56,432 SHIELD, ONCE WE GET TO AN 330 00:11:56,432 --> 00:11:57,967 OPERATIONAL ORBIT WE'LL START TO 331 00:11:57,967 --> 00:11:59,001 TAKE PICTURES. 332 00:11:59,001 --> 00:12:01,170 AND HERE YOU SEE US IN THE 333 00:12:01,170 --> 00:12:02,838 OPERATION A LITTLE BIT. 334 00:12:02,838 --> 00:12:04,840 WE ACTUALLY CO-ROTATE WITH THE 335 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:05,441 SUN. 336 00:12:05,441 --> 00:12:06,942 THE SUN ROTATES ONCE OVER 25 337 00:12:06,942 --> 00:12:08,010 DAYS. 338 00:12:08,010 --> 00:12:10,079 WHEN WE'RE AT THE CLOSEST POINT 339 00:12:10,079 --> 00:12:12,047 WE CO-ROTATE AT THE SAME SPEED 340 00:12:12,047 --> 00:12:14,150 AND ALLOWS US TO FOLLOW ANYTHING 341 00:12:14,150 --> 00:12:16,385 ON THE SUN SURFACE, A NUMBER OF 342 00:12:16,385 --> 00:12:18,020 DAYS CO-ROTATE WITH IT AND STUDY 343 00:12:18,020 --> 00:12:19,789 IT AS IT EVOLVES. 344 00:12:19,789 --> 00:12:21,957 WHICH IS GOING TO BE AN EXCITING 345 00:12:21,957 --> 00:12:22,458 MISSION. 346 00:12:22,458 --> 00:12:23,959 >> ALL RIGHTY AND THANK YOU VERY 347 00:12:23,959 --> 00:12:24,760 MUCH VERY MUCH. 348 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:26,095 MOVING ON TO ALAN. 349 00:12:26,095 --> 00:12:28,297 WE HEARD IN THE LAUNCH READINESS 350 00:12:28,297 --> 00:12:29,932 REVIEW, THERE ARE MORE THAN 20 351 00:12:29,932 --> 00:12:31,300 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES ALL WORKING 352 00:12:31,300 --> 00:12:32,668 ON THIS PROJECT TOGETHER. 353 00:12:32,668 --> 00:12:34,303 TALK ABOUT THAT INTERNATIONAL 354 00:12:34,303 --> 00:12:35,004 COLLABORATION. 355 00:12:35,004 --> 00:12:35,471 >> ABSOLUTELY. 356 00:12:35,471 --> 00:12:37,206 LET ME START OUT WITH A QUICK 357 00:12:37,206 --> 00:12:42,044 SHOUT OUT TO IDA MALDONADO, THE 358 00:12:42,044 --> 00:12:44,079 PROJECT MANAGER, SHE WAS 359 00:12:44,079 --> 00:12:46,048 SUPPOSED TO BE HERE AND BECAME 360 00:12:46,048 --> 00:12:48,317 ILL AND WASN'T ABLE TO AND THE 361 00:12:48,317 --> 00:12:49,418 INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION. 362 00:12:49,418 --> 00:12:51,654 FOR ME IT'S ONE OF THE MOST 363 00:12:51,654 --> 00:12:53,422 EXCITING MISSIONS I'VE WORKED ON 364 00:12:53,422 --> 00:12:54,824 IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. 365 00:12:54,824 --> 00:12:56,792 I'M AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, THE 366 00:12:56,792 --> 00:12:58,194 INTERACTION OF THE SUN AND HOW 367 00:12:58,194 --> 00:12:59,728 IT INTERACTS WITH THE EARTH AND 368 00:12:59,728 --> 00:13:01,430 OUR DIFFERENT SYSTEMS, IT'S 369 00:13:01,430 --> 00:13:01,964 AMAZING. 370 00:13:01,964 --> 00:13:06,135 YOU KNOW, AS SOCIETY, AS A 371 00:13:06,135 --> 00:13:07,803 MARVEL AS WE MOVE INTO SPACE AND 372 00:13:07,803 --> 00:13:09,939 DO BUSINESS INTO SPACE, NASA, 373 00:13:09,939 --> 00:13:11,140 THE COMMERCIAL COMMUNITIES WILL 374 00:13:11,140 --> 00:13:12,208 ALL BE WORKING TOGETHER. 375 00:13:12,208 --> 00:13:14,643 AND THE DATA FROM MISSIONS LIKE 376 00:13:14,643 --> 00:13:16,278 THIS CREATES PREDICTIVE MODELS 377 00:13:16,278 --> 00:13:18,647 SO THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO PROTECT 378 00:13:18,647 --> 00:13:21,283 OUR ASSETS, PROTECT OUR ASSETS 379 00:13:21,283 --> 00:13:23,385 AS WE MOVE ON. 380 00:13:23,385 --> 00:13:24,720 INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION IS 381 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:26,422 AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE WAY 382 00:13:26,422 --> 00:13:29,325 NASA PERFORMS ITS MISSIONS. 383 00:13:29,325 --> 00:13:31,126 SOLAR ORBITER IS A GREAT EXAMPLE 384 00:13:31,126 --> 00:13:33,095 OF THIS. 385 00:13:33,095 --> 00:13:35,798 BASICALLY, ESA AND NASA, YOU 386 00:13:35,798 --> 00:13:38,400 KNOW, DECADES AGO RECOGNIZED 387 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:43,038 THAT WE HAD A LOT OF THE THINGS 388 00:13:43,038 --> 00:13:44,807 WE WANTED TO ACHIEVE. 389 00:13:44,807 --> 00:13:50,179 WE WORKOUT WORKED TOGETHER AND 390 00:13:50,179 --> 00:13:51,447 REALIZE WHEN YOU DO AN 391 00:13:51,447 --> 00:13:52,882 INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION LIKE 392 00:13:52,882 --> 00:13:55,751 THIS, YOU GET A MUCH BETTER 393 00:13:55,751 --> 00:13:57,386 SCIENCE RETURN WITH BOTH 394 00:13:57,386 --> 00:13:58,754 COUNTRIES PUTTING IN THEIR 395 00:13:58,754 --> 00:14:00,055 ASSETS AND RESOURCES AND WE GET 396 00:14:00,055 --> 00:14:03,058 ALL OF THIS DATA AT A BETTER 397 00:14:03,058 --> 00:14:04,059 PRICE POINT. 398 00:14:04,059 --> 00:14:05,861 IT'S WIN-WIN FOR EVERYBODY. 399 00:14:05,861 --> 00:14:07,129 I THINK WE ALSO LEARN A LOT FROM 400 00:14:07,129 --> 00:14:08,464 EACH OTHER AS WE WORK TOGETHER 401 00:14:08,464 --> 00:14:10,900 IN THESE TYPES OF 402 00:14:10,900 --> 00:14:11,834 COLLABORATIONS. 403 00:14:11,834 --> 00:14:12,535 WE UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER'S 404 00:14:12,535 --> 00:14:13,569 CULTURES BETTER AND WE 405 00:14:13,569 --> 00:14:14,937 UNDERSTAND HOW WE DO BUSINESS. 406 00:14:14,937 --> 00:14:17,306 IT'S REALLY JUST A GREAT WAY TO 407 00:14:17,306 --> 00:14:17,973 LEARN. 408 00:14:17,973 --> 00:14:20,075 THE SCIENCE TEAMS HAVE JUST 409 00:14:20,075 --> 00:14:21,944 WORKED FABULOUSLY TOGETHER AND 410 00:14:21,944 --> 00:14:23,345 ALL THE SCIENCE WORKING GROUPS. 411 00:14:23,345 --> 00:14:24,813 YOU'VE GOT U.S. TEAMS WORKING 412 00:14:24,813 --> 00:14:28,050 ON, YOU KNOW, WITH THE SCIENCE 413 00:14:28,050 --> 00:14:31,787 INSTRUMENTS FROM ESA AND VICE 414 00:14:31,787 --> 00:14:32,254 VERSA. 415 00:14:32,254 --> 00:14:33,155 IT'S REALLY A TIGHT 416 00:14:33,155 --> 00:14:34,023 COLLABORATION. 417 00:14:34,023 --> 00:14:35,157 BASICALLY IN CONCLUSION, 418 00:14:35,157 --> 00:14:37,259 COLLABORATIONS ARE JUST SUCH A 419 00:14:37,259 --> 00:14:38,827 GREAT VALUE FOR EVERYBODY, YOU 420 00:14:38,827 --> 00:14:40,195 KNOW, BOTH FROM A TECHNICAL, 421 00:14:40,195 --> 00:14:43,732 FROM A SCIENCE, FROM A RESOURCE 422 00:14:43,732 --> 00:14:44,567 PERSPECTIVE. 423 00:14:44,567 --> 00:14:47,036 AND IT REALLY HELPS WITH SPACE 424 00:14:47,036 --> 00:14:47,836 DIPLOMACY AS WELL. 425 00:14:47,836 --> 00:14:48,938 >> ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU VERY 426 00:14:48,938 --> 00:14:49,672 MUCH, ALAN. 427 00:14:49,672 --> 00:14:50,673 APPRECIATE THAT. 428 00:14:50,673 --> 00:14:52,808 AND EARLIER, CESAR WAS TELLING 429 00:14:52,808 --> 00:14:54,543 ME I WAS THE ONLY ONE WITH A 430 00:14:54,543 --> 00:14:57,279 DIFFERENT ACCENT ON THE DIAS. 431 00:14:57,279 --> 00:14:59,748 ACTUALLY OUR FRIEND TIM DUNN, 432 00:14:59,748 --> 00:15:04,186 AND LAUNCH MANAGER AND 433 00:15:04,186 --> 00:15:05,154 ALABAMAIAN. 434 00:15:05,154 --> 00:15:07,456 TELL US ABOUT THE HARD WORK THAT 435 00:15:07,456 --> 00:15:08,390 LSP PUT IN. 436 00:15:08,390 --> 00:15:09,558 >> THANK YOU, DARRELL. 437 00:15:09,558 --> 00:15:11,026 I'M PROUD TO BE HERE 438 00:15:11,026 --> 00:15:13,095 REPRESENTING NASA'S LAUNCH 439 00:15:13,095 --> 00:15:14,296 SERVICES PROGRAM AND ESPECIALLY 440 00:15:14,296 --> 00:15:16,599 PROUD OF OUR TEAM FOR THE SOLAR 441 00:15:16,599 --> 00:15:18,300 ORBITER MISSION WORKING 442 00:15:18,300 --> 00:15:19,868 ALONGSIDE OUR COLLEAGUES AND 443 00:15:19,868 --> 00:15:22,471 ENGINEERS AND ANALYST OF NASA 444 00:15:22,471 --> 00:15:24,707 LSP WE TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN 445 00:15:24,707 --> 00:15:26,008 LAUNCHING IN INTERNATIONAL 446 00:15:26,008 --> 00:15:27,109 PARTNERSHIP MISSION. 447 00:15:27,109 --> 00:15:28,143 A SCIENTIFIC MARVEL THAT AMONG 448 00:15:28,143 --> 00:15:30,012 OTHER SCIENCE WILL PROVIDE 449 00:15:30,012 --> 00:15:32,247 UNPRECEDENTED VIEWS OF THE SUN'S 450 00:15:32,247 --> 00:15:33,282 POLES. 451 00:15:33,282 --> 00:15:35,517 NASA LSP HAS A DEMONSTRATED 452 00:15:35,517 --> 00:15:38,654 RECORD OF SUCCESS FLYING ON THE 453 00:15:38,654 --> 00:15:39,855 ATLAS FIVE. 454 00:15:39,855 --> 00:15:42,091 TO DATE WE COUNT SEVEN MISSIONS 455 00:15:42,091 --> 00:15:43,592 SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED ON THIS 456 00:15:43,592 --> 00:15:44,793 MAGNIFICENT ROCKET. 457 00:15:44,793 --> 00:15:46,595 MISSIONS TO PLUTO, JUPITER, THE 458 00:15:46,595 --> 00:15:49,632 MOON, THE SUN, THE RADIATION 459 00:15:49,632 --> 00:15:50,332 BELT. 460 00:15:50,332 --> 00:15:52,167 FOUR SPACECRAFT TO MARS AND EVEN 461 00:15:52,167 --> 00:15:53,802 THE ASTEROID. 462 00:15:53,802 --> 00:15:56,505 SOLAR ORBITER WILL BE THE 18TH 463 00:15:56,505 --> 00:15:59,541 NASA SCIENCE MISSION TO FLY ON 464 00:15:59,541 --> 00:16:02,478 ATLAS FIVE AND SECOND OVERALL 465 00:16:02,478 --> 00:16:04,213 ATLAS FIVE TO LAUNCH. 466 00:16:04,213 --> 00:16:09,718 THE ORBITER WILL LAUNCH ON AN 467 00:16:09,718 --> 00:16:12,254 ATLAS FIVE 411 VEHICLE. 468 00:16:12,254 --> 00:16:15,557 I'D LIKE TO SHOW YOU THE TEAM 469 00:16:15,557 --> 00:16:16,892 ASSEMBLING THE LAUNCH VEHICLE AS 470 00:16:16,892 --> 00:16:19,828 WELL AS PREPARING THE SPACECRAFT 471 00:16:19,828 --> 00:16:23,465 IN TITUSVILLE AT ASTRO TECH. 472 00:16:23,465 --> 00:16:25,401 HERE YOU SEE IT ARRIVING FROM 473 00:16:25,401 --> 00:16:26,802 DECATUR, ALABAMA WHERE IT WAS 474 00:16:26,802 --> 00:16:28,804 MANUFACTURED, COMES IN ON THE 475 00:16:28,804 --> 00:16:31,340 MARINER VESSEL CALLED THE ROCKET 476 00:16:31,340 --> 00:16:32,341 SHIP. 477 00:16:32,341 --> 00:16:34,443 SO THERE IT WAS TRANSPORTED 478 00:16:34,443 --> 00:16:35,244 ACROSS THE CAPE. 479 00:16:35,244 --> 00:16:37,179 HERE IS SOME SPACECRAFT ACTIVITY 480 00:16:37,179 --> 00:16:42,851 OVER AT ASTRO TECH IAN AND 481 00:16:42,851 --> 00:16:45,821 CESAR'S TEAMS WORK QUICKLY, 482 00:16:45,821 --> 00:16:48,957 MAYBE NOT THAT FAST, BUT AMAZING 483 00:16:48,957 --> 00:16:49,458 THINGS. 484 00:16:49,458 --> 00:16:50,859 JANUARY 6TH, JUST AFTER THE NEW 485 00:16:50,859 --> 00:16:52,361 YEAR WE ROLLED THE FIRST STAGE 486 00:16:52,361 --> 00:16:54,363 OF ATLAS FIVE OUT TO THE 487 00:16:54,363 --> 00:16:57,933 VERTICAL INTEGRATION FACILITY AT 488 00:16:57,933 --> 00:16:59,468 THE CAPE WHERE WE ERECTED IT AND 489 00:16:59,468 --> 00:17:02,404 SET IT ON THE MOBILE LAUNCH 490 00:17:02,404 --> 00:17:05,174 PLATFORM, A GORGEOUS DAY. 491 00:17:05,174 --> 00:17:07,176 BACK OVER AT AS TRA TECH, AFTER 492 00:17:07,176 --> 00:17:09,578 WE WRAPPED UP THE ACTIVITY FOR 493 00:17:09,578 --> 00:17:11,513 THE SOLAR ORBITER SPACECRAFT WE 494 00:17:11,513 --> 00:17:14,683 WANTED TO INTO THE ATLAS FIVE 495 00:17:14,683 --> 00:17:15,918 FARING, WITH THE GORGEOUS ART 496 00:17:15,918 --> 00:17:17,219 WORK OF THE LOGO FOR THE MISSION 497 00:17:17,219 --> 00:17:18,087 ON THE SIDE. 498 00:17:18,087 --> 00:17:24,626 AND HERE WE ARE OUT AT THE 499 00:17:24,626 --> 00:17:26,595 EVENT, AND THE BAGPIPES PLAYING, 500 00:17:26,595 --> 00:17:27,663 THE TRADITION. 501 00:17:27,663 --> 00:17:28,797 THE LAUNCH TEAM WE DON'T GET 502 00:17:28,797 --> 00:17:30,165 THAT FOR EVERY MISSION, WE 503 00:17:30,165 --> 00:17:31,366 ENJOYED THAT AND THANKS FOR 504 00:17:31,366 --> 00:17:32,601 PROVIDING US THAT. 505 00:17:32,601 --> 00:17:34,636 AND THAT WAS THE ENCAPSULATED 506 00:17:34,636 --> 00:17:36,839 ASSEMBLY LIFTED TO THE TOP OF 507 00:17:36,839 --> 00:17:39,108 THE ATLAS FIVE AND THE TOP OF 508 00:17:39,108 --> 00:17:40,876 THE CENTAUR FOR MATING JUST LAST 509 00:17:40,876 --> 00:17:43,345 FRIDAY AND THAT HAPPENED ON THE 510 00:17:43,345 --> 00:17:45,948 31ST OF JANUARY. 511 00:17:45,948 --> 00:17:47,382 SO THE SOLAR ORBITER LAUNCH 512 00:17:47,382 --> 00:17:50,219 CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN UNIQUE AND 513 00:17:50,219 --> 00:17:51,019 MEMORABLE. 514 00:17:51,019 --> 00:17:52,354 AS AN INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP 515 00:17:52,354 --> 00:17:53,689 MISSION COVERING MANY YEARS, WE, 516 00:17:53,689 --> 00:17:55,124 THE LAUNCH TEAM, HAVE 517 00:17:55,124 --> 00:17:57,760 ENCOUNTERED CULTURAL AND 518 00:17:57,760 --> 00:17:59,695 OPERATIONAL DIFFERENCES, AS WELL 519 00:17:59,695 --> 00:18:01,497 AS SOME COMMUNICATION 520 00:18:01,497 --> 00:18:03,065 CHALLENGES, BUT THE ENTIRE TEAM 521 00:18:03,065 --> 00:18:05,334 HAS ALWAYS FOUND COMMON GROUND 522 00:18:05,334 --> 00:18:07,302 AND MOVED FORWARD TOWARD LAUNCH 523 00:18:07,302 --> 00:18:08,637 BECAUSE WE ALL SPEAK THE 524 00:18:08,637 --> 00:18:11,640 UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF MISSION 525 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:12,207 SUCCESS. 526 00:18:12,207 --> 00:18:15,544 OVER THE PAST WEEK, SINCE WE'VE 527 00:18:15,544 --> 00:18:17,613 MATED THE SOLAR ORBITER 528 00:18:17,613 --> 00:18:18,947 SPACECRAFT, THE ATLAS FIVE TEAM 529 00:18:18,947 --> 00:18:20,315 HAS BEEN BUSY WITH LAUNCH 530 00:18:20,315 --> 00:18:21,049 PREPARATIONS. 531 00:18:21,049 --> 00:18:22,518 JUST EARLIER THIS WEEK WE 532 00:18:22,518 --> 00:18:24,486 PERFORMED THE INTEGRATED SYSTEMS 533 00:18:24,486 --> 00:18:25,320 TEST BETWEEN THE SPACECRAFT AND 534 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:26,622 ROCKET TO CHECK THAT OUT ON 535 00:18:26,622 --> 00:18:27,156 MONDAY. 536 00:18:27,156 --> 00:18:29,658 THEN THE NEXT DAY, THE ENTIRE 537 00:18:29,658 --> 00:18:31,326 TEAM GOT TOGETHER, INCLUDING THE 538 00:18:31,326 --> 00:18:33,128 RANGE TEAM, AND WE EXECUTED A 539 00:18:33,128 --> 00:18:35,664 MISSION DRESS REHEARSAL TO BOTH 540 00:18:35,664 --> 00:18:38,500 EXERCISE AND PREPARE THE TEAM. 541 00:18:38,500 --> 00:18:40,002 EARLIER THIS MORNING WE 542 00:18:40,002 --> 00:18:42,237 CONDUCTED THE LAUNCH READINESS 543 00:18:42,237 --> 00:18:44,406 REVIEW FOR THE SOLAR ORBITER 544 00:18:44,406 --> 00:18:44,907 MISSION. 545 00:18:44,907 --> 00:18:47,342 SENIOR MANAGERS FROM ESA, 546 00:18:47,342 --> 00:18:51,246 AIRBUS, NASA, KSC, GODDARD SPACE 547 00:18:51,246 --> 00:18:52,881 FLIGHT CENTER AND NASA 548 00:18:52,881 --> 00:18:55,184 HEADQUARTERS AS WELL AS ULA AND 549 00:18:55,184 --> 00:18:56,919 THE UNITED STATES SPACE FORCE 550 00:18:56,919 --> 00:18:58,987 ASSESSED THE READINESS OF THE 551 00:18:58,987 --> 00:19:01,123 ROCKET, THE SPACECRAFT, AND 552 00:19:01,123 --> 00:19:02,724 RANGE ASSETS TO PROCEED TO 553 00:19:02,724 --> 00:19:05,027 LAUNCH AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT 554 00:19:05,027 --> 00:19:09,064 WE ALL PARTIES WERE GO AT LRR. 555 00:19:09,064 --> 00:19:10,732 TOMORROW, WE WILL BEGIN OUR 556 00:19:10,732 --> 00:19:13,001 FINAL LAUNCH PREPS AT 10:A.M. 557 00:19:13,001 --> 00:19:14,837 EASTERN TIME. 558 00:19:14,837 --> 00:19:17,906 WE'LL ROLL THE ATLAS FIVE WITH 559 00:19:17,906 --> 00:19:20,609 ITS MATED SOLAR ORBITER 560 00:19:20,609 --> 00:19:23,545 SPACECRAFT ON ITS MOBILE LAUNCH 561 00:19:23,545 --> 00:19:25,948 ONE QUARTER MILE TO THE LAUNCH 562 00:19:25,948 --> 00:19:29,218 PAD MOUNT AT SPACECRAFT 41. 563 00:19:29,218 --> 00:19:31,253 AND THEN ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON THE 564 00:19:31,253 --> 00:19:33,522 LAUNCH CREW WILL BEGIN ARRIVING 565 00:19:33,522 --> 00:19:35,023 ON CONSOLE AND BEGIN WITH THE 566 00:19:35,023 --> 00:19:37,659 POWER ON SEQUENCES FOR THE ATLAS 567 00:19:37,659 --> 00:19:39,127 FIVE ROCKET AND SOLAR ORBITER 568 00:19:39,127 --> 00:19:39,862 SPACECRAFT. 569 00:19:39,862 --> 00:19:41,763 THIS WILL BE FOLLOWED SUNDAY 570 00:19:41,763 --> 00:19:45,901 EVENING ABOUT 9 P.M. EASTERN 571 00:19:45,901 --> 00:19:50,372 TIME LOADING SUPER COLD 572 00:19:50,372 --> 00:19:51,106 CRYOGENICS. 573 00:19:51,106 --> 00:19:54,142 WE'LL LOAD LIQUID OXYGEN TO THE 574 00:19:54,142 --> 00:19:58,814 FIRST STAGE AND LIQUID HYDRO 575 00:19:58,814 --> 00:19:59,381 AGAIN. 576 00:19:59,381 --> 00:20:02,584 WE'LL PERFORM FINAL TESTS WITH 577 00:20:02,584 --> 00:20:03,585 THE EASTERN RANGE 578 00:20:03,585 --> 00:20:04,786 INSTRUMENTATION AND THEN WE'LL 579 00:20:04,786 --> 00:20:06,521 ALL BE READY FOR LAUNCH SUNDAY 580 00:20:06,521 --> 00:20:09,625 NIGHT, FEBRUARY 9TH, AT 11:03 581 00:20:09,625 --> 00:20:12,194 P.M. EASTERN TIME AND WE HAVE A 582 00:20:12,194 --> 00:20:14,196 TWO HOUR LAUNCH WINDOW. 583 00:20:14,196 --> 00:20:18,200 IN SUMMARY, THE SPACECRAFT, THE 584 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:20,402 ATLAS FIVE ROCKET AND THE RANGE 585 00:20:20,402 --> 00:20:22,204 EQUIPMENT ARE ALL READY AND OUR 586 00:20:22,204 --> 00:20:23,372 COMBINED GOVERNMENT AND 587 00:20:23,372 --> 00:20:24,973 CONTRACTOR LAUNCH TEAM IS 588 00:20:24,973 --> 00:20:28,076 PREPARED TO LAUNCH SOLAR ORBITER 589 00:20:28,076 --> 00:20:33,315 ON ITS AMAZING JOURNEY TO STUDY 590 00:20:33,315 --> 00:20:33,649 THE SUN. 591 00:20:33,649 --> 00:20:34,950 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AND YOU 592 00:20:34,950 --> 00:20:36,418 SAW VIDEO OF THE ROCKET ITSELF. 593 00:20:36,418 --> 00:20:37,986 LET'S CHECK WITH SCOTT AND FIND 594 00:20:37,986 --> 00:20:39,221 OUT HOW THE ROCKET IS DOING. 595 00:20:39,221 --> 00:20:40,622 >> THANKS, DARRELL. 596 00:20:40,622 --> 00:20:42,658 I WANTED TO BEGIN ON BEHALF OF 597 00:20:42,658 --> 00:20:44,893 THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE UNITED 598 00:20:44,893 --> 00:20:46,628 LAUNCH ALLIANCE I JUST WANT TO 599 00:20:46,628 --> 00:20:48,931 SAY WELCOME TO THE SOLAR ORBITER 600 00:20:48,931 --> 00:20:49,431 LAUNCH. 601 00:20:49,431 --> 00:20:51,433 AS A COMPANY AND AS AN 602 00:20:51,433 --> 00:20:53,702 INDIVIDUAL PERSONALLY, I AND THE 603 00:20:53,702 --> 00:20:56,605 TEAM ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT 604 00:20:56,605 --> 00:20:58,740 PARTICIPATING AND BEING PART OF 605 00:20:58,740 --> 00:21:01,510 THIS GREAT INTERNATIONAL 606 00:21:01,510 --> 00:21:03,178 COLLABORATION AND THE SOLAR 607 00:21:03,178 --> 00:21:04,212 ORBITER MISSION. 608 00:21:04,212 --> 00:21:06,815 THIS WILL BE THE FIRST LAUNCH 609 00:21:06,815 --> 00:21:10,452 FOR ULA IN 2020, BUT IT WILL BE 610 00:21:10,452 --> 00:21:13,322 OUR 137th LAUNCH AS A COMPANY. 611 00:21:13,322 --> 00:21:17,092 TO DATE WE'VE HAD 136 612 00:21:17,092 --> 00:21:19,594 CONSECUTIVE SUCCESSFUL LAUNCHES 613 00:21:19,594 --> 00:21:21,563 AND WE ARE SUPER EXCITED OF THAT 614 00:21:21,563 --> 00:21:22,097 REGARD. 615 00:21:22,097 --> 00:21:23,899 TIM MENTIONED THAT WE'VE HAD OF 616 00:21:23,899 --> 00:21:27,102 THAT 136, 81 OF THOSE SO FAR 617 00:21:27,102 --> 00:21:32,441 HAVE BEEN THE ATLAS VEHICLE AND 618 00:21:32,441 --> 00:21:34,042 FIVE CONFIGURATION OF TODAY, 619 00:21:34,042 --> 00:21:36,812 WHICH IS THE 411. 620 00:21:36,812 --> 00:21:39,014 CESAR MENTIONED EARLIER, 25 621 00:21:39,014 --> 00:21:40,682 YEARS AGO WHEN THEY LAUNCHED THE 622 00:21:40,682 --> 00:21:43,185 LAST TIME ESA LAUNCHED, THAT WAS 623 00:21:43,185 --> 00:21:48,657 A MISSION CALLED SOHO AND IT 624 00:21:48,657 --> 00:21:51,893 LAUNCHED ON AN ATLAS VEHICLE. 625 00:21:51,893 --> 00:21:56,031 AND OTHER MISSIONS THAT LAUNCHED 626 00:21:56,031 --> 00:21:58,300 ON ATLAS THE SOLAR DYNAMIC 627 00:21:58,300 --> 00:22:00,335 OBSERVATORY AND ALSO THE ULA AND 628 00:22:00,335 --> 00:22:02,304 OUR HERITAGE VEHICLES HAVE 629 00:22:02,304 --> 00:22:03,839 LAUNCHED MISSION CALLED ACE AND 630 00:22:03,839 --> 00:22:05,807 STEREO, BOTH OF WHICH LAUNCHED 631 00:22:05,807 --> 00:22:07,109 ON THE DELTA TWO WHICH WENT TO 632 00:22:07,109 --> 00:22:10,412 THE SUN OR STUDIED THE SUN AND 633 00:22:10,412 --> 00:22:12,114 OF COURSE, JUST LAST-- 634 00:22:12,114 --> 00:22:15,250 OR 2018, WE LAUNCHED PARKER 635 00:22:15,250 --> 00:22:17,185 SOLAR PROBE ON THE DELTA FOUR 636 00:22:17,185 --> 00:22:18,220 HEAVY. 637 00:22:18,220 --> 00:22:20,822 SO, ULA HAS A RICH HISTORY OF 638 00:22:20,822 --> 00:22:22,324 LAUNCHING THESE CRITICAL 639 00:22:22,324 --> 00:22:24,393 PAYLOADS TO THE SUN AND IT'S 640 00:22:24,393 --> 00:22:26,928 ALWAYS VERY EXCITING FOR US. 641 00:22:26,928 --> 00:22:29,931 SO A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE NOTED 642 00:22:29,931 --> 00:22:32,434 THE ATLAS CONFIGURATION THIS 643 00:22:32,434 --> 00:22:33,735 TIME AS A 411. 644 00:22:33,735 --> 00:22:35,303 I'VE SAID WE'VE LAUNCHED THAT 645 00:22:35,303 --> 00:22:36,938 FOUR TIMES -- OR FIVE TIMES SO 646 00:22:36,938 --> 00:22:37,606 FAR. 647 00:22:37,606 --> 00:22:38,940 IT DOES LOOK A LITTLE UNIQUE OUT 648 00:22:38,940 --> 00:22:41,510 THERE ON THE PAD WITH JUST THE 649 00:22:41,510 --> 00:22:44,012 SINGLE SOLID ROCKET BOOSTER ON 650 00:22:44,012 --> 00:22:46,648 ONE SIDE, BUT WHEN WE LIFT OFF 651 00:22:46,648 --> 00:22:49,117 ON SUNDAY EVENING, IT WON'T LOOK 652 00:22:49,117 --> 00:22:50,719 ANY DIFFERENT THAN ANY OTHER 653 00:22:50,719 --> 00:22:52,854 VEHICLE THAT WE LAUNCH AND IT'S 654 00:22:52,854 --> 00:22:54,990 VERY SUCCESSFUL. 655 00:22:54,990 --> 00:22:58,493 IT STAND ABOUT 189 FEET TALL OUT 656 00:22:58,493 --> 00:23:02,264 ON THE LAUNCH PAD, OF WHICH I'M 657 00:23:02,264 --> 00:23:03,965 JUST ABOUT SIX SCHOOL BUSES 658 00:23:03,965 --> 00:23:05,734 STACKED ON END, FOR REFERENCE. 659 00:23:05,734 --> 00:23:08,070 AND IT DOES HAVE A VERY 660 00:23:08,070 --> 00:23:09,237 DISTINCTIVE APPEARANCE. 661 00:23:09,237 --> 00:23:11,773 ATLAS IS CAPABLE OF ADJUSTING 662 00:23:11,773 --> 00:23:15,677 THE SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS TO 663 00:23:15,677 --> 00:23:17,846 BEST FIT THE NEEDS OF THE 664 00:23:17,846 --> 00:23:19,514 SPACECRAFT AND SO THAT'S WHY A 665 00:23:19,514 --> 00:23:24,386 411 IS WAS CHOSEN HERE. 666 00:23:24,386 --> 00:23:26,288 I GUESS ONE LITTLE OTHER TIDBIT 667 00:23:26,288 --> 00:23:28,657 IS THE FIRST TIME THE 411 668 00:23:28,657 --> 00:23:30,459 LAUNCHED WAS BACK IN 2006. 669 00:23:30,459 --> 00:23:32,461 SO, WE DO HAVE A VIDEO NOW THAT 670 00:23:32,461 --> 00:23:35,297 WE'D LIKE TO SHOW THAT HAS-- 671 00:23:35,297 --> 00:23:37,132 SHOWS YOU WHAT WILL BE TAKING 672 00:23:37,132 --> 00:23:38,400 PLACE ON SUNDAY NIGHT AFTER 673 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:38,867 LAUNCH. 674 00:23:38,867 --> 00:23:44,406 SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND ROLL THAT 675 00:23:44,406 --> 00:23:46,074 VIDEO. 676 00:23:46,074 --> 00:23:46,908 >> AND LIFT-OFF OF THE UNITED 677 00:23:46,908 --> 00:23:49,544 LAUNCH ALLIANCE, ATLAS FIVE 678 00:23:49,544 --> 00:23:50,112 ROCKET. 679 00:23:50,112 --> 00:23:53,748 >> THE ATLAS FIVE RD-180 MAIN 680 00:23:53,748 --> 00:23:56,718 ENGINE AND SOLID ROCKET BOOSTER 681 00:23:56,718 --> 00:23:57,452 IGNITE. 682 00:23:57,452 --> 00:24:00,722 5.3 THRUST ON ITS WAY TO A 683 00:24:00,722 --> 00:24:03,091 HYPERBOLIC ESCAPE TRAJECTORY. 684 00:24:03,091 --> 00:24:05,794 SHORTLY AFTER LIFT-OFF, ATLAS 685 00:24:05,794 --> 00:24:08,296 BEGINS A PITCH OVER TO OBTAIN A 686 00:24:08,296 --> 00:24:11,500 FLIGHT PATH AND MINIMALIZE THE 687 00:24:11,500 --> 00:24:13,401 PRESSURE IT EXPERIENCES DURING 688 00:24:13,401 --> 00:24:14,569 FLIGHT. 689 00:24:14,569 --> 00:24:18,106 IT MATCHES MACH ONE, THE SPEED 690 00:24:18,106 --> 00:24:20,108 OF SOUND AT 58 SECONDS. 691 00:24:20,108 --> 00:24:24,646 SINGLE SRB JETTISONED, AT 4:03, 692 00:24:24,646 --> 00:24:27,182 THE PALLET LEVELS DEPLETE AND 693 00:24:27,182 --> 00:24:29,885 THE BOOSTER ENGINES SHUT DOWN. 694 00:24:29,885 --> 00:24:32,621 SIX SECONDS LATER THE SEPARATION 695 00:24:32,621 --> 00:24:35,257 SYSTEM ACTIVATES TO RELEASE THE 696 00:24:35,257 --> 00:24:36,291 BOOSTER STAGE. 697 00:24:36,291 --> 00:24:38,160 AND IT WEIGHS 15% LESS THAN WHAT 698 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,462 IT DID AT LIFT-OFF. 699 00:24:40,462 --> 00:24:43,365 10 SECONDS LATER THE FIRST BURN 700 00:24:43,365 --> 00:24:46,201 OF THE SENTAR BEGINS AND IT'S 701 00:24:46,201 --> 00:24:48,803 INTO A PARKING ORBIT. 702 00:24:48,803 --> 00:24:51,706 APPROACHING PAYLOAD JETSON, IT'S 703 00:24:51,706 --> 00:24:53,775 BURNING AT 23 KILOGRAMS A SECOND 704 00:24:53,775 --> 00:24:57,646 TRAVELLING MORE THAN 17, 700 705 00:24:57,646 --> 00:25:00,282 KILOMETERS PER HOUR AND 134 PER 706 00:25:00,282 --> 00:25:05,687 HOUR KILOMETERS. 707 00:25:05,687 --> 00:25:09,524 THE PAYLOAD IS JETTISONED. 708 00:25:09,524 --> 00:25:12,827 AND THE VEHICLE WAYS 7% OF WHAT 709 00:25:12,827 --> 00:25:15,263 IT DID AT LIFT-OFF. 710 00:25:15,263 --> 00:25:21,002 AND CUT OFF OF THE CENTAUR MAIN 711 00:25:21,002 --> 00:25:22,704 ENGINE, THERE'S A COAST PHASE IN 712 00:25:22,704 --> 00:25:24,506 PREPARATION OF THE SECOND BURN. 713 00:25:24,506 --> 00:25:26,841 BECAUSE OF THE TARGETED EARTH 714 00:25:26,841 --> 00:25:28,510 TRAJECTORY VARIES FROM 715 00:25:28,510 --> 00:25:29,878 DAY-TO-DAY THE COAST AND THE 716 00:25:29,878 --> 00:25:31,546 SECOND BURN WILL ACCOMMODATE 717 00:25:31,546 --> 00:25:32,180 THIS. 718 00:25:32,180 --> 00:25:35,650 THE CENTAUR MAIN ENGINE 4:58 719 00:25:35,650 --> 00:25:38,853 SECONDS WITH A FINAL AND SECOND 720 00:25:38,853 --> 00:25:39,821 ENGINE BURN. 721 00:25:39,821 --> 00:25:41,556 NEARLY SEVEN MINUTES LATER, 722 00:25:41,556 --> 00:25:44,659 FINAL CUT-OFF OF THE CENTAUR 723 00:25:44,659 --> 00:25:48,096 MAIN ENGINE OCCURS. 724 00:25:48,096 --> 00:25:54,002 2:40, CENTAUR RELEASES FOR THEM 725 00:25:54,002 --> 00:25:56,104 TO HAVE A TWO-YEAR JOURNEY TO 726 00:25:56,104 --> 00:25:57,038 THE SUN. 727 00:25:57,038 --> 00:25:59,274 AT EARTH AND VENUS, SOLAR 728 00:25:59,274 --> 00:26:01,343 ORBITER WILL HELP US UNDERSTAND 729 00:26:01,343 --> 00:26:05,213 HOW OUR STAR CONTROLS THE HELIO 730 00:26:05,213 --> 00:26:07,515 SPHERE, THE PARTICLES BLOWN BY 731 00:26:07,515 --> 00:26:09,384 THE SOLAR WIND THAT PERMEATES 732 00:26:09,384 --> 00:26:11,319 THE WHOLE SOLAR SYSTEM AND 733 00:26:11,319 --> 00:26:13,922 INFLUENCES THE PLANETS WITHIN 734 00:26:13,922 --> 00:26:14,289 IT. 735 00:26:14,289 --> 00:26:17,259 >> SO, IN CONCLUSION, I WILL 736 00:26:17,259 --> 00:26:21,096 JUST NOTE AGAIN THAT WE AT ULA 737 00:26:21,096 --> 00:26:23,398 ARE VERY PROUD TO DELIVER SOLAR 738 00:26:23,398 --> 00:26:26,234 ORBITER TO ITS ORBIT AND 739 00:26:26,234 --> 00:26:33,275 CONTINUE TO RELIABY DELIVER THE 740 00:26:33,275 --> 00:26:34,609 SPACECRAFT WITH 100% MISSION 741 00:26:34,609 --> 00:26:35,243 SUCCESS. 742 00:26:35,243 --> 00:26:37,812 I DO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO 743 00:26:37,812 --> 00:26:41,216 NASA AND TO OUR ESA PARTNERS AND 744 00:26:41,216 --> 00:26:44,386 THE ULA TEAM LOOKS FORWARD TO 745 00:26:44,386 --> 00:26:45,320 SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH. 746 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:49,324 AND I'LL END WITH A GO ATLAS, GO 747 00:26:49,324 --> 00:26:50,725 CENTAUR AND GO SOLAR ORBITER. 748 00:26:50,725 --> 00:26:52,193 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SCOTT. 749 00:26:52,193 --> 00:26:53,828 FOR THOSE OF YOU LOCALLY, YOU 750 00:26:53,828 --> 00:26:55,096 PROBABLY NOTICED A COLD FRONT 751 00:26:55,096 --> 00:26:56,097 THAT ROLLED THROUGH. 752 00:26:56,097 --> 00:26:57,499 SOME WIND, RAIN, A LITTLE BIT OF 753 00:26:57,499 --> 00:26:58,199 LIGHTNING. 754 00:26:58,199 --> 00:26:59,134 JESSICA, TELL US HOW THE 755 00:26:59,134 --> 00:27:00,302 FORECAST IS LOOKING NOW FOR 756 00:27:00,302 --> 00:27:00,902 LAUNCH DAY. 757 00:27:00,902 --> 00:27:02,437 >> WELL, THAT COLD FRONT CLEARED 758 00:27:02,437 --> 00:27:03,571 EVERYTHING OUT FOR US. 759 00:27:03,571 --> 00:27:06,608 SO IF WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE 760 00:27:06,608 --> 00:27:10,045 SATELLITE IMAGE, YOU CAN SEE 761 00:27:10,045 --> 00:27:12,814 THAT COLD FRONT IS NOW OVER 762 00:27:12,814 --> 00:27:14,149 SOUTH FLORIDA AND OVER THE 763 00:27:14,149 --> 00:27:15,784 NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO. 764 00:27:15,784 --> 00:27:17,185 WE HAVE A CLOUDLESS SKY THAT'S 765 00:27:17,185 --> 00:27:18,119 WITH HIGH PRESSURE IN CONTROL 766 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:19,554 AND WE EXPECT THAT HIGH PRESSURE 767 00:27:19,554 --> 00:27:21,856 TO SLIDE EASTWARD, AND MOVE INTO 768 00:27:21,856 --> 00:27:23,425 CENTRAL FLORIDA BY TOMORROW 769 00:27:23,425 --> 00:27:24,926 AFTERNOON, WHICH WILL GIVE US AN 770 00:27:24,926 --> 00:27:27,829 EXCELLENT DAY FOR MLA ROLL AND 771 00:27:27,829 --> 00:27:29,164 THE HIGH PRESSURE WILL REALLY 772 00:27:29,164 --> 00:27:30,498 DOMINATE THROUGH MID NEXT WEEK, 773 00:27:30,498 --> 00:27:32,200 WHICH IS GREAT, BECAUSE IT WILL 774 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:33,668 KEEP ANY COLD FRONTS FROM MOVING 775 00:27:33,668 --> 00:27:34,869 THROUGH CENTRAL FLORIDA. 776 00:27:34,869 --> 00:27:38,306 THROUGH THE 48 HOUR BACKUP 777 00:27:38,306 --> 00:27:38,873 WINDOW. 778 00:27:38,873 --> 00:27:40,675 NEXT SLIDE. 779 00:27:40,675 --> 00:27:43,945 SO OUR LAUNCH FORECAST IS POV OF 780 00:27:43,945 --> 00:27:46,748 20% AND THAT'S FOR ANY CUMULUS 781 00:27:46,748 --> 00:27:48,350 CLOUDS THAT MAY BE IN THE AREA 782 00:27:48,350 --> 00:27:49,384 OR GROUND WINDS AND THAT'S 783 00:27:49,384 --> 00:27:50,985 BECAUSE WE'LL HAVE ON-SHORE FLOW 784 00:27:50,985 --> 00:27:52,921 FROM THE EAST AND THAT'S ON THE 785 00:27:52,921 --> 00:27:54,122 SOUTHERN SIDE OF THE HIGH 786 00:27:54,122 --> 00:27:55,123 PRESSURE RIDGE. 787 00:27:55,123 --> 00:27:57,425 THIS ON-SHORE FLOW COULD BRING 788 00:27:57,425 --> 00:27:58,660 IN SCATTERED LOW CLOUDS THAT 789 00:27:58,660 --> 00:28:00,795 WE'LL BE MONITORING AND WIND 790 00:28:00,795 --> 00:28:03,198 SPEEDS ARE MODERATE, GRADIENT 791 00:28:03,198 --> 00:28:05,533 BETWEEN 18 TO 25 KNOTS AND THOSE 792 00:28:05,533 --> 00:28:09,070 WIND SPEEDS ARE FORECAST AT, AS 793 00:28:09,070 --> 00:28:10,171 SCOTT MENTIONED, THE HEIGHT OF 794 00:28:10,171 --> 00:28:11,806 THE VEHICLE, FORECASTED AT THE 795 00:28:11,806 --> 00:28:13,141 TOP OF THE VEHICLE. 796 00:28:13,141 --> 00:28:14,008 WIND SPEEDS AT THE SURFACE WILL 797 00:28:14,008 --> 00:28:16,244 BE A LITTLE BIT LIGHTER. 798 00:28:16,244 --> 00:28:17,645 NEXT SLIDE. 799 00:28:17,645 --> 00:28:20,248 AND FOR OUR 24-HOUR FORECAST, 800 00:28:20,248 --> 00:28:22,183 CONDITIONS GET A LITTLE BIT 801 00:28:22,183 --> 00:28:23,551 WORSE BECAUSE WE HAVE CONTINUED 802 00:28:23,551 --> 00:28:25,186 ON-SHORE FLOW FROM THE SOUTHEAST 803 00:28:25,186 --> 00:28:26,488 WHICH WILL BRING A LITTLE MORE 804 00:28:26,488 --> 00:28:27,722 MOISTURE INTO THE AREA AND A FEW 805 00:28:27,722 --> 00:28:29,591 MORE CLOUDS AND WE ALSO HAVE A 806 00:28:29,591 --> 00:28:32,026 VERY SLIGHT CHANCE FOR A RAIN 807 00:28:32,026 --> 00:28:34,028 SHOWER, JUST APPROACHING THE 808 00:28:34,028 --> 00:28:36,030 COAST NEAR COMPLEX 41 BEFORE IT 809 00:28:36,030 --> 00:28:37,098 DIMINISHED INLAND. 810 00:28:37,098 --> 00:28:38,800 WIND SPEEDS DO LIGHTEN UP A BIT. 811 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,202 12 TO 18 KNOTS FROM THE 812 00:28:41,202 --> 00:28:42,337 SOUTH-SOUTHEAST, TEMPERATURES 813 00:28:42,337 --> 00:28:44,372 ARE FAIRLY WARM IN THE UPPER 814 00:28:44,372 --> 00:28:46,341 60'S AS WE MODERATE AS THAT HIGH 815 00:28:46,341 --> 00:28:47,475 PRESSURE SLIDES OFF TO OUR EAST 816 00:28:47,475 --> 00:28:49,077 AND OUR PRIMARY CONCERN IS AGAIN 817 00:28:49,077 --> 00:28:50,512 THE CUMULUS CLOUD ROLL. 818 00:28:50,512 --> 00:28:53,047 AND FOR OUR 48-HOUR FORECAST, 819 00:28:53,047 --> 00:28:56,217 OUR POV IS BACK DOWN TO 20%, AS 820 00:28:56,217 --> 00:28:58,253 OUR WIND TURN MORE SOUTHERLY, 821 00:28:58,253 --> 00:28:59,888 AND LESS OF A DIRECTION FROM THE 822 00:28:59,888 --> 00:29:01,923 OCEAN AND WE HAVE A FEW LESS 823 00:29:01,923 --> 00:29:04,926 CLOUDS FOR THE 48-HOUR FORECAST. 824 00:29:04,926 --> 00:29:05,960 TEMPERATURES WARM ANOTHER DEGREE 825 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,730 OR TWO IN THE UPPER 60'S, AND 826 00:29:08,730 --> 00:29:10,899 CUMULUS CLOUD ROLL IS AGAIN, OUR 827 00:29:10,899 --> 00:29:12,400 PRIMARY CONCERN AT 20%. 828 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,003 AND WE'RE EXCITED TO BE A PART 829 00:29:15,003 --> 00:29:17,739 OF THIS MISSION BECAUSE SOLAR 830 00:29:17,739 --> 00:29:19,874 WEATHER IS ALSO ONE OF OUR 831 00:29:19,874 --> 00:29:21,609 CRITERIA AND WE'RE EXCITED TO 832 00:29:21,609 --> 00:29:22,944 HAVE MORE INFORMATION AND DATA 833 00:29:22,944 --> 00:29:24,512 BY SOLAR WEATHER CAUSED BY SOLAR 834 00:29:24,512 --> 00:29:25,580 WIND AND THINGS ARE LOOKING 835 00:29:25,580 --> 00:29:26,147 GREAT. 836 00:29:26,147 --> 00:29:27,449 >> ALL RIGHT, JESSICA, THANK YOU 837 00:29:27,449 --> 00:29:28,183 VERY MUCH FOR THAT FORECAST. 838 00:29:28,183 --> 00:29:29,350 LOOKING GOOD. 839 00:29:29,350 --> 00:29:31,653 WE'RE GOING TO OPEN IT UP TO 840 00:29:31,653 --> 00:29:33,254 QUESTIONS IN THE ROOM BY MEDIA 841 00:29:33,254 --> 00:29:34,622 AND PRESS WHO HAVE GATHERED 842 00:29:34,622 --> 00:29:35,223 HERE. 843 00:29:35,223 --> 00:29:36,758 I WANT TO REMIND WHEN YOU'RE 844 00:29:36,758 --> 00:29:38,560 CALLED UPON, STATE YOUR NAME, 845 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,562 AFFILIATION AND TO WHOM YOUR 846 00:29:40,562 --> 00:29:41,763 QUESTION IS DIRECTED. 847 00:29:41,763 --> 00:29:43,665 AND SO WE'LL TAKE A SHOW OF 848 00:29:43,665 --> 00:29:45,099 HANDS FOR THOSE WHO WANT AN ASK 849 00:29:45,099 --> 00:29:45,967 A QUESTION. 850 00:29:45,967 --> 00:29:47,168 BEGIN IN THE FRONT ROW RIGHT IN 851 00:29:47,168 --> 00:29:49,170 THE MIDDLE WITH MARSHA. 852 00:29:49,170 --> 00:29:52,073 >> MARSHA DENNIS, ASSOCIATED 853 00:29:52,073 --> 00:29:58,079 PRESS, THE FIRST TWO BRIEFERS, 854 00:29:58,079 --> 00:30:00,615 IT'S SURPRISING TO ME THE AMOUNT 855 00:30:00,615 --> 00:30:02,784 OF TIME FOR THE MISSION TO SO 856 00:30:02,784 --> 00:30:06,821 THE POLES OF THE SUN. 857 00:30:06,821 --> 00:30:09,591 WHY IS THAT AND WHAT DID YOU 858 00:30:09,591 --> 00:30:12,527 HAVE TO OVERCOME ENTAILED IN THE 859 00:30:12,527 --> 00:30:13,094 MISSION? 860 00:30:13,094 --> 00:30:15,997 >> WELL, I THINK THE -- TO BE 861 00:30:15,997 --> 00:30:17,332 ABLE TO FINISH SOMETHING THE 862 00:30:17,332 --> 00:30:19,567 FIRST THING YOU NEED TO DO IS 863 00:30:19,567 --> 00:30:21,202 TAKE THE FIRST STEP AND THE 864 00:30:21,202 --> 00:30:23,471 FIRST STEP FOR THIS MISSION 865 00:30:23,471 --> 00:30:28,576 CONSENSUALLY -- CONCEPTUALLY 866 00:30:28,576 --> 00:30:29,944 WAS MANY, MANY YEARS AGO, AND 867 00:30:29,944 --> 00:30:32,347 BACK IN 2011. 868 00:30:32,347 --> 00:30:35,316 AND FROM THAT MOMENT IN TIME, 869 00:30:35,316 --> 00:30:37,318 THERE WAS STARTING THE REAL 870 00:30:37,318 --> 00:30:39,654 DEVELOPMENT OF THE MISSION, AND 871 00:30:39,654 --> 00:30:41,289 THEN, OF COURSE, YOU'RE TRYING 872 00:30:41,289 --> 00:30:42,190 TO DO SOMETHING NEW. 873 00:30:42,190 --> 00:30:43,958 THERE ARE MANY CHALLENGES. 874 00:30:43,958 --> 00:30:47,161 THERE ARE CHALLENGES FROM THE 875 00:30:47,161 --> 00:30:49,264 INSTRUMENTS, THERE-- 876 00:30:49,264 --> 00:30:50,732 MOST OF THE INSTRUMENTS ARE NEW, 877 00:30:50,732 --> 00:30:52,200 THEY HAVE NEW TECHNOLOGY AND 878 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:53,868 THAT MEANS THAT IT TAKES TIME TO 879 00:30:53,868 --> 00:30:55,803 DEVELOP THOSE AND IN SOME CASES 880 00:30:55,803 --> 00:30:57,205 SOMETIMES YOU HIT A WALL AND 881 00:30:57,205 --> 00:30:58,373 THEN YOU HAVE TO CHANGE 882 00:30:58,373 --> 00:30:59,641 DIRECTIONS AND THAT TAKES TIME 883 00:30:59,641 --> 00:31:01,743 FOR THE INSTRUMENTS AND 884 00:31:01,743 --> 00:31:03,545 SIMILARLY FOR THE SPACECRAFT, WE 885 00:31:03,545 --> 00:31:08,950 HAVE MANY TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES 886 00:31:08,950 --> 00:31:10,318 AS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE WE'VE 887 00:31:10,318 --> 00:31:12,687 USED AND REUSED TECHNOLOGY 888 00:31:12,687 --> 00:31:14,756 DEVELOPED FOR THE EUROPEAN 889 00:31:14,756 --> 00:31:17,559 MISSION COLUMBO, WHICH WAS 890 00:31:17,559 --> 00:31:21,229 LAUNCHED IN OCTOBER LAST YEAR TO 891 00:31:21,229 --> 00:31:23,765 ORBIT MERCURY, AND THOSE ARE 892 00:31:23,765 --> 00:31:26,234 HIGH TEMPERATURE TECHNOLOGIES. 893 00:31:26,234 --> 00:31:28,202 AGAIN, WE DON'T HAVE THE SAME 894 00:31:28,202 --> 00:31:29,771 ORBIT, THAT MEANS WE DON'T HAVE 895 00:31:29,771 --> 00:31:31,873 THE SAME THERMAL CONDITIONS AND 896 00:31:31,873 --> 00:31:33,575 THAT MEANS WE HAVE TO ADAPT THAT 897 00:31:33,575 --> 00:31:34,876 TECHNOLOGY FOR OUR OWN PURPOSE 898 00:31:34,876 --> 00:31:36,144 AND THAT ALSO TAKES TIME. 899 00:31:36,144 --> 00:31:39,414 SO, FOR US, IT'S TAKEN FROM, YOU 900 00:31:39,414 --> 00:31:41,449 KNOW, THE BEGINNING OF 2011 901 00:31:41,449 --> 00:31:44,185 UNTIL NOW BEGINNING OF 2020, 902 00:31:44,185 --> 00:31:46,821 AND, BUT AGAIN, YOU NEED TO 903 00:31:46,821 --> 00:31:48,489 START AT A CERTAIN MOMENT AND 904 00:31:48,489 --> 00:31:50,658 THEN TAKES SO MANY YEARS TO BE 905 00:31:50,658 --> 00:31:53,628 ABLE TO REACH TO WHAT WE ARE 906 00:31:53,628 --> 00:31:54,462 ACHIEVING TODAY. 907 00:31:54,462 --> 00:31:55,430 >> ALL RIGHT. 908 00:31:55,430 --> 00:31:57,432 THANK YOU, CESAR. 909 00:31:57,432 --> 00:31:58,967 AND ANOTHER QUESTION, LET'S GO 910 00:31:58,967 --> 00:32:02,637 TO THE FRONT ROW AT THE END HERE 911 00:32:02,637 --> 00:32:03,237 CHRIS. 912 00:32:03,237 --> 00:32:04,772 >> CHRIS WITH NASA SPACE FLIGHT. 913 00:32:04,772 --> 00:32:07,175 THE DOORS ON THE HEAT SHIELD, 914 00:32:07,175 --> 00:32:09,177 ONCE THOSE OPEN ARE THEY OPEN 915 00:32:09,177 --> 00:32:11,212 FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THE MISSION 916 00:32:11,212 --> 00:32:13,214 OR DO THEY CLOSE FOR HEAT 917 00:32:13,214 --> 00:32:14,782 PROTECTION AND STUFF LIKE THAT. 918 00:32:14,782 --> 00:32:15,850 AND THEN I HAVE A FOLLOW-UP. 919 00:32:15,850 --> 00:32:19,053 >> IT'S THE LATTER, YES. 920 00:32:19,053 --> 00:32:20,855 WE ONLY OPEN THE DOORS WHEN 921 00:32:20,855 --> 00:32:22,290 WE'RE CLOSE TO THE SUN. 922 00:32:22,290 --> 00:32:23,758 WE HAVE THREE SCIENCE WINDOWS WE 923 00:32:23,758 --> 00:32:26,027 CALL THEM, EACH TEN DAYS LONG 924 00:32:26,027 --> 00:32:27,862 AND OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE A SCIENCE 925 00:32:27,862 --> 00:32:29,397 WINDOW WHEN WE'RE CLOSE TO THE 926 00:32:29,397 --> 00:32:30,765 SUN AND WE HAVE TWO OTHER 927 00:32:30,765 --> 00:32:33,368 WINDOWS, ONE AT WHAT WE CALL THE 928 00:32:33,368 --> 00:32:35,370 MAXIMUM HELIO LATITUDE AND 929 00:32:35,370 --> 00:32:37,972 MINIMUM HELIO LATITUDE. 930 00:32:37,972 --> 00:32:40,375 WHICH MEANS THE HIGHEST POINT WE 931 00:32:40,375 --> 00:32:44,212 LOOK DOWN FROM AND LOWEST POINT. 932 00:32:44,212 --> 00:32:45,647 AND ALTOGETHER 30 DAYS OF 933 00:32:45,647 --> 00:32:47,649 SCIENCE AND WE ONLY OPEN THE 934 00:32:47,649 --> 00:32:49,517 DOORS DURING THOSE PERIODS. 935 00:32:49,517 --> 00:32:53,154 >> AND FOR YOU, THE 411 IS SUCH 936 00:32:53,154 --> 00:32:54,956 A UNIQUE, IT'S COOL LOOKING, BUT 937 00:32:54,956 --> 00:32:56,791 IT'S UNIQUE IN HOW IT FLIES. 938 00:32:56,791 --> 00:32:58,426 I'M WONDERING, CAN YOU TALK TO 939 00:32:58,426 --> 00:33:00,428 US SPECIFICALLY WHY THAT SINGLE 940 00:33:00,428 --> 00:33:02,397 SOLID ROCKET WAS SO NECESSARY 941 00:33:02,397 --> 00:33:04,198 FOR THIS PARTICULAR MISSION TO 942 00:33:04,198 --> 00:33:07,368 INJECT INTO HELIO CENTRIC ORBIT? 943 00:33:07,368 --> 00:33:08,736 >> YEAH, OF COURSE. 944 00:33:08,736 --> 00:33:11,239 WHEN WE GET THE REQUIREMENTS 945 00:33:11,239 --> 00:33:12,974 FROM THE SPACECRAFT REGARDING 946 00:33:12,974 --> 00:33:14,442 HOW MUCH VELOCITY THEY NEED TO 947 00:33:14,442 --> 00:33:16,010 GET TO WHERE THEY WANT TO GO, 948 00:33:16,010 --> 00:33:18,346 HOW HEAVY THEY ARE, WE GO BACK 949 00:33:18,346 --> 00:33:20,915 AND WE RUN A TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS 950 00:33:20,915 --> 00:33:22,650 AND SIZE OUR VEHICLE BASED ON 951 00:33:22,650 --> 00:33:24,085 WHAT THE SPACECRAFT REQUIREMENTS 952 00:33:24,085 --> 00:33:24,385 ARE. 953 00:33:24,385 --> 00:33:26,320 AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THAT THE 954 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:27,989 ATLAS VEHICLE IS CAPABLE OF 955 00:33:27,989 --> 00:33:29,490 SCALING UP AND DOWN AND SO, THIS 956 00:33:29,490 --> 00:33:31,893 WAS JUST THE RIGHT SIZE OF THE 957 00:33:31,893 --> 00:33:34,929 VEHICLE FOR THE ENERGY AND THE 958 00:33:34,929 --> 00:33:38,032 MASS OF THE SPACECRAFT. 959 00:33:38,032 --> 00:33:38,933 >> ALL RIGHT. 960 00:33:38,933 --> 00:33:40,935 LET'S MOVE TO THE OTHER SIDE OF 961 00:33:40,935 --> 00:33:43,037 THE ROOM, AND JIM. 962 00:33:43,037 --> 00:33:46,607 >> JIM SEGAL WITH SPACE FLIGHT 963 00:33:46,607 --> 00:33:47,141 INSIDER. 964 00:33:47,141 --> 00:33:49,711 I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT, KIND OF 965 00:33:49,711 --> 00:33:52,246 MAYBE FOR SCOTT OR TIM. 966 00:33:52,246 --> 00:33:55,383 YOU MENTIONED A NUMBER OF OTHER 967 00:33:55,383 --> 00:33:57,151 PROBES THAT HAVE BEEN SENT TO 968 00:33:57,151 --> 00:33:58,086 THE SUN. 969 00:33:58,086 --> 00:34:00,154 I'M INTERESTED MAYBE IN TOTAL 970 00:34:00,154 --> 00:34:03,958 FOR ALL COUNTRIES AND ALL 971 00:34:03,958 --> 00:34:05,026 AGENCIES, ABOUT HOW MANY PROBES 972 00:34:05,026 --> 00:34:06,828 HAVE BEEN SENT TO THE SUN 973 00:34:06,828 --> 00:34:09,063 STARTING ABOUT WHAT YEAR? 974 00:34:09,063 --> 00:34:13,434 >> AN ACCUMULATION OF-- 975 00:34:13,434 --> 00:34:16,070 SO ULA VEHICLES HAVE LAUNCHED 976 00:34:16,070 --> 00:34:22,543 FIVE, YEAH UA AND HERITAGE 977 00:34:22,543 --> 00:34:23,845 VEHICLES LAUNCHED FIVE TO THE 978 00:34:23,845 --> 00:34:26,180 SUN AND CESAR MIGHT KNOW BETTER 979 00:34:26,180 --> 00:34:26,881 THAN ME. 980 00:34:26,881 --> 00:34:28,082 >> I DON'T THINK I CAN GIVE A 981 00:34:28,082 --> 00:34:31,152 FULL ACCOUNT, BUT LET ME RECAP 982 00:34:31,152 --> 00:34:32,453 ONE ALSO BUILT IN EUROPE AND 983 00:34:32,453 --> 00:34:34,455 ALSO LAUNCHED FROM HERE, FROM 984 00:34:34,455 --> 00:34:36,657 THIS PORT AND THAT WAS CALLED 985 00:34:36,657 --> 00:34:37,158 ULYSSES. 986 00:34:37,158 --> 00:34:39,494 THAT WAS LAUNCHED IN 1990, BUT 987 00:34:39,494 --> 00:34:41,129 YOU SAID GOING TO THE SUN, BUT 988 00:34:41,129 --> 00:34:43,264 THAT'S A RELATIVE TERM. 989 00:34:43,264 --> 00:34:45,199 ULYSSES ACTUALLY GOT AWAY FROM 990 00:34:45,199 --> 00:34:47,168 THE SUN BECAUSE AT THE TIME, YOU 991 00:34:47,168 --> 00:34:49,203 KNOW, THE TECHNOLOGY WAS NOT 992 00:34:49,203 --> 00:34:52,874 READY TO GET CLOSER TO THE SUN. 993 00:34:52,874 --> 00:34:55,243 BUT I DON'T REALLY HAVE A FULL 994 00:34:55,243 --> 00:34:57,879 LIST OF MISSIONS, YOU KNOW, 995 00:34:57,879 --> 00:35:00,681 WHICH HAVE GONE DIRECTLY INTO 996 00:35:00,681 --> 00:35:04,719 SOLAR ORBIT OTHER THAN THOSE 997 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:06,220 ORBITING THE EARTH AND STILL 998 00:35:06,220 --> 00:35:07,121 ORBITING THE SUN. 999 00:35:07,121 --> 00:35:08,790 >> A FOLLOW-UP QUESTION? 1000 00:35:08,790 --> 00:35:10,091 >> THIS IS A FOLLOW-UP. 1001 00:35:10,091 --> 00:35:11,292 ARE THERE ANY FUTURE MISSIONS 1002 00:35:11,292 --> 00:35:13,928 THAT ARE ON THE BOARDS, ON THE 1003 00:35:13,928 --> 00:35:17,131 PLANNING BOARDS ABOUT ADDITIONAL 1004 00:35:17,131 --> 00:35:19,033 PROBES THAT ARE GOING TO BE 1005 00:35:19,033 --> 00:35:22,203 PLANNED TO GO TO THE SUN TO 1006 00:35:22,203 --> 00:35:25,406 FOLLOWED UP WHAT'S DONE? 1007 00:35:25,406 --> 00:35:26,841 >> AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME IN THE 1008 00:35:26,841 --> 00:35:29,744 NEAR TIME FUTURE, THERE ARE NO 1009 00:35:29,744 --> 00:35:33,848 NEW MISSIONS IN THE NEAR TERM. 1010 00:35:33,848 --> 00:35:35,750 FOR NOW, THE NEAR TERM IS 1011 00:35:35,750 --> 00:35:38,653 BETWEEN NOW AND THE END OF THE 1012 00:35:38,653 --> 00:35:39,187 2020'S. 1013 00:35:39,187 --> 00:35:40,288 >> AND I BELIEVE THAT DAN FOX 1014 00:35:40,288 --> 00:35:41,522 HAS AN UPDATE FOR ONE OF OUR 1015 00:35:41,522 --> 00:35:41,956 PEOPLE HERE. 1016 00:35:41,956 --> 00:35:44,859 >> I WAS GOING TO SAY NASA HAS A 1017 00:35:44,859 --> 00:35:47,962 MISSION THAT LAUNCHES I THINK 1018 00:35:47,962 --> 00:35:51,532 AROUND 23, 2023. 1019 00:35:51,532 --> 00:35:52,600 >> ALL RIGHT, VERY GOOD. 1020 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,101 LET'S GO TO THE SAME SIDE OF THE 1021 00:35:54,101 --> 00:35:57,438 ROOM ON THE INSIDE HERE. 1022 00:35:57,438 --> 00:36:01,375 FLORIDA TODAY, RACHEL THERE. 1023 00:36:01,375 --> 00:36:04,478 >> HI, CESAR. 1024 00:36:04,478 --> 00:36:06,080 YOU SAID YOU HAVEN'T LAUNCHED IN 1025 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:07,815 20, 25 YEARS, IS THAT WHAT YOU 1026 00:36:07,815 --> 00:36:08,516 SAID HERE? 1027 00:36:08,516 --> 00:36:10,952 >> WHAT I SAID IS THAT 25 YEARS 1028 00:36:10,952 --> 00:36:12,954 AGO WE LAUNCHED THE EUROPEAN 1029 00:36:12,954 --> 00:36:13,521 CRAFT FROM HERE. 1030 00:36:13,521 --> 00:36:14,856 >> OH, I SEE. 1031 00:36:14,856 --> 00:36:15,323 OKAY. 1032 00:36:15,323 --> 00:36:17,291 WHEN WAS THE LAST-- 1033 00:36:17,291 --> 00:36:19,594 THE LAST TIME WE LAUNCHED WAS IN 1034 00:36:19,594 --> 00:36:20,528 DECEMBER LAST YEAR. 1035 00:36:20,528 --> 00:36:21,762 >> OKAY. 1036 00:36:21,762 --> 00:36:23,865 >> WE SENT A MISSION WHICH IS 1037 00:36:23,865 --> 00:36:26,434 GOING TO CHARACTERIZE THE 1038 00:36:26,434 --> 00:36:31,005 ATMOSPHERE OF EXPLANETS, BUT 1039 00:36:31,005 --> 00:36:34,008 THAT WAS FROM PERU, WHICH IS OUR 1040 00:36:34,008 --> 00:36:34,775 REGULAR LAUNCH SPACE. 1041 00:36:34,775 --> 00:36:35,476 >> VERY GOOD. 1042 00:36:35,476 --> 00:36:37,111 LET'S GO BACK OVER TO THE OTHER 1043 00:36:37,111 --> 00:36:37,812 SIDE OF THE ROOM. 1044 00:36:37,812 --> 00:36:40,114 KEN HAS A QUESTION, THE FRONT 1045 00:36:40,114 --> 00:36:40,581 ROW. 1046 00:36:40,581 --> 00:36:42,583 >> HI, THANK YOU. 1047 00:36:42,583 --> 00:36:45,453 KEN CRAMER, SPACE UP CLOSE AND 1048 00:36:45,453 --> 00:36:45,920 ROCKETS. 1049 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:47,121 AND FIRST OF ALL, GOOD LUCK FOR 1050 00:36:47,121 --> 00:36:48,623 THE LAUNCH. 1051 00:36:48,623 --> 00:36:51,559 VERY EXCITING. 1052 00:36:51,559 --> 00:36:52,593 WITH PARKER. 1053 00:36:52,593 --> 00:36:53,995 MY QUESTION I THINK IS FOR TIM. 1054 00:36:53,995 --> 00:36:55,963 YOU DID YOUR LAUNCH READINESS 1055 00:36:55,963 --> 00:36:57,398 REVIEW. 1056 00:36:57,398 --> 00:37:03,371 YOU KNOW, ORIGINALLY YOU HAD THE 1057 00:37:03,371 --> 00:37:05,139 ANTARES LAUNCH, AND NOW 1058 00:37:05,139 --> 00:37:06,707 PRACTICALLY ON TOP OF ONE 1059 00:37:06,707 --> 00:37:07,708 ANOTHER, FIVE HOURS LAUNCHING 1060 00:37:07,708 --> 00:37:08,809 FROM VIRGINIA AND YOU. 1061 00:37:08,809 --> 00:37:10,111 CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE 1062 00:37:10,111 --> 00:37:11,946 CHALLENGES OF TWO LAUNCHES FROM 1063 00:37:11,946 --> 00:37:13,547 THE EAST COAST WITHIN A FEW 1064 00:37:13,547 --> 00:37:14,315 HOURS? 1065 00:37:14,315 --> 00:37:14,782 THANKS. 1066 00:37:14,782 --> 00:37:16,484 >> YEAH, I ACTUALLY CAN SPEAK TO 1067 00:37:16,484 --> 00:37:16,918 THAT. 1068 00:37:16,918 --> 00:37:18,286 WHAT HAPPENED, WE ORIGINALLY AT 1069 00:37:18,286 --> 00:37:20,288 ONE TIME WERE ON THE 7TH OF 1070 00:37:20,288 --> 00:37:21,422 FEBRUARY AND THE 9TH, THE 1071 00:37:21,422 --> 00:37:23,457 EVENING OF THE 9TH WAS A BACKUP 1072 00:37:23,457 --> 00:37:24,525 DATE FOR US. 1073 00:37:24,525 --> 00:37:26,594 SO WHEN WE REQUESTED THAT BACKUP 1074 00:37:26,594 --> 00:37:30,464 DAY, IT QUICKLY BECAME UP IN A 1075 00:37:30,464 --> 00:37:33,000 RANGE CONFLICT THAT WHEN THERE 1076 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,202 ARE WALLOP LAUNCHES, WE NEED TO 1077 00:37:35,202 --> 00:37:37,204 QUIET CERTAIN ANTENNAS HERE ON 1078 00:37:37,204 --> 00:37:38,172 THE EASTERN RANGE. 1079 00:37:38,172 --> 00:37:39,807 ONE OF WHICH IS OUR COMMAND 1080 00:37:39,807 --> 00:37:41,108 TRANSMITTER FOR THE FLIGHT 1081 00:37:41,108 --> 00:37:42,043 TERMINATION SYSTEM. 1082 00:37:42,043 --> 00:37:43,778 SO, THAT WAS A MINOR CONFLICT 1083 00:37:43,778 --> 00:37:45,179 THAT WE KNEW ABOUT SO WE 1084 00:37:45,179 --> 00:37:46,948 ACTUALLY HAD A FEW DAYS TO WORK 1085 00:37:46,948 --> 00:37:48,683 THAT TO GET OUR BACKUP DATE 1086 00:37:48,683 --> 00:37:49,383 APPROVED. 1087 00:37:49,383 --> 00:37:50,751 WELL, OUR BACKUP DATE OF THE 1088 00:37:50,751 --> 00:37:53,120 EVENING OF THE 9TH HAS NOW 1089 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,056 BECOME OUR PRIMARY DATE DUE TO A 1090 00:37:55,056 --> 00:37:57,058 WEATHER ISSUE THAT WE HAD AND 1091 00:37:57,058 --> 00:37:59,060 NEIGHBORING PAD LAUNCH LAST 1092 00:37:59,060 --> 00:37:59,727 WEEK. 1093 00:37:59,727 --> 00:38:02,797 SO WE HAD DONE ALL OF THAT 1094 00:38:02,797 --> 00:38:05,633 HOMEWORK AND SO IT WAS ACTUALLY 1095 00:38:05,633 --> 00:38:07,835 A QUICK TASK FOR THE RANGE, THE 1096 00:38:07,835 --> 00:38:09,437 EASTERN RANGE TO DO. 1097 00:38:09,437 --> 00:38:11,005 THEY DECONFLICTED THAT AND 1098 00:38:11,005 --> 00:38:13,040 THEY'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO 1099 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:17,111 CHECK OUT THE RADAR, THE FLIGHT 1100 00:38:17,111 --> 00:38:18,946 DETERMINATION SYSTEM, ANTENNAS 1101 00:38:18,946 --> 00:38:21,449 THAT WE NEED HERE A LITTLE BIT 1102 00:38:21,449 --> 00:38:24,151 EARLIER AND THEN SPEED UP THE 1103 00:38:24,151 --> 00:38:27,621 PROCESS SO THEY WERE ABLE TO 1104 00:38:27,621 --> 00:38:28,656 DECONFLICT THAT. 1105 00:38:28,656 --> 00:38:29,724 THE LAUNCH IN VIRGINIA I BELIEVE 1106 00:38:29,724 --> 00:38:30,591 AT 5:39 P.M. 1107 00:38:30,591 --> 00:38:33,160 WE'RE LAUNCHING AT 11:03. 1108 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:34,829 THE RANGE TEAM AND THE RANGE 1109 00:38:34,829 --> 00:38:36,364 SUPPORT TEAM HERE DOES 1110 00:38:36,364 --> 00:38:37,765 EXCEPTIONAL WORK AND SO THEY 1111 00:38:37,765 --> 00:38:39,734 WERE ABLE TO LOOK AT THAT AND 1112 00:38:39,734 --> 00:38:40,601 DECONFLICT IT. 1113 00:38:40,601 --> 00:38:42,336 WE DON'T HAVE ANY ISSUE RIGHT 1114 00:38:42,336 --> 00:38:43,104 NOW, KEN. 1115 00:38:43,104 --> 00:38:43,704 >> ALL RIGHT. 1116 00:38:43,704 --> 00:38:44,939 LET'S STAY ON THIS SIDE OF THE 1117 00:38:44,939 --> 00:38:46,741 ROOM AND GO THREE ROWS BACK IN 1118 00:38:46,741 --> 00:38:48,542 THE MIDDLE. 1119 00:38:48,542 --> 00:38:49,377 THE GENTLEMAN THERE. 1120 00:38:49,377 --> 00:38:53,814 >> STEVEN YOUNG WITH ASTRONOMY 1121 00:38:53,814 --> 00:38:56,450 NOW AND SPACE FLIGHT NOW FOR TIM 1122 00:38:56,450 --> 00:38:57,585 AND/OR SCOTT. 1123 00:38:57,585 --> 00:39:00,521 YOU'VE GOT A TWO-HOUR LAUNCH 1124 00:39:00,521 --> 00:39:02,556 WINDOW, BUT THIS BEING AN EARTH 1125 00:39:02,556 --> 00:39:04,291 ESCAPE TRAJECTORY. 1126 00:39:04,291 --> 00:39:06,427 WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO SHOULD 1127 00:39:06,427 --> 00:39:07,962 YOU SLIP INTO THAT WINDOW 1128 00:39:07,962 --> 00:39:11,065 BECAUSE OF WEATHER OR TECHNICAL 1129 00:39:11,065 --> 00:39:13,300 ISSUES TO FINE TUNE THE 1130 00:39:13,300 --> 00:39:14,301 TRAJECTORY FOR THIS SPECIFIC 1131 00:39:14,301 --> 00:39:14,769 LAUNCH TIME. 1132 00:39:14,769 --> 00:39:16,170 >> I'LL TAKE THE WINDOW PART OF 1133 00:39:16,170 --> 00:39:17,671 IT AND SCOTT IS GOING TO TELL 1134 00:39:17,671 --> 00:39:20,674 YOU HOW AMAZING ATLAS FIVE IS AT 1135 00:39:20,674 --> 00:39:21,675 HANDLING THAT. 1136 00:39:21,675 --> 00:39:23,844 SO, WHAT WE DID FOR TARGETING 1137 00:39:23,844 --> 00:39:25,146 PURPOSES WITH OUR TWO-HOUR 1138 00:39:25,146 --> 00:39:27,681 WINDOW WAS, IT TAKES AN 1139 00:39:27,681 --> 00:39:30,351 INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF ANALYSIS TO 1140 00:39:30,351 --> 00:39:31,986 ANALYZE A LAUNCH OPPORTUNITY ON 1141 00:39:31,986 --> 00:39:34,121 EVERY SECOND OF A TWO-HOUR 1142 00:39:34,121 --> 00:39:36,257 WINDOW SO WE BROKE IT UP INTO 1143 00:39:36,257 --> 00:39:38,125 FIVE MINUTE BLOCKS. 1144 00:39:38,125 --> 00:39:39,693 SO WE HAVE 25 DISCRETE 1145 00:39:39,693 --> 00:39:41,028 OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN THE TWO 1146 00:39:41,028 --> 00:39:41,762 HOURS TO LAUNCH. 1147 00:39:41,762 --> 00:39:42,963 BASICALLY THE BEGINNING OF THE 1148 00:39:42,963 --> 00:39:44,532 WINDOW, THE END OF THE WINDOW, 1149 00:39:44,532 --> 00:39:45,833 AND EVERY FIVE MINUTES IN 1150 00:39:45,833 --> 00:39:46,233 BETWEEN. 1151 00:39:46,233 --> 00:39:48,335 AND SO, WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE'LL 1152 00:39:48,335 --> 00:39:50,137 ANALYZE WHAT CAUSED US TO MISS 1153 00:39:50,137 --> 00:39:52,139 THE BEGINNING OF THE WINDOW. 1154 00:39:52,139 --> 00:39:55,176 WAS IT RANGE INSTRUMENTATION 1155 00:39:55,176 --> 00:39:55,743 ISSUE? 1156 00:39:55,743 --> 00:39:58,145 WAS IT A BOAT OR AIRPLANE THAT 1157 00:39:58,145 --> 00:39:59,313 FOULED THE SURVEILLANCE CONTROL 1158 00:39:59,313 --> 00:40:00,748 BOX OR WAS IT WEATHER? 1159 00:40:00,748 --> 00:40:02,983 WE'LL WAIT FOR THAT TO CLEAR. 1160 00:40:02,983 --> 00:40:05,319 THEN WE WILL TARGET A NEW T-ZERO 1161 00:40:05,319 --> 00:40:08,756 AND HOW WE'RE ABLE TO JUST THAT 1162 00:40:08,756 --> 00:40:10,758 AN AS SIMPLY AS THAT IS BECAUSE 1163 00:40:10,758 --> 00:40:12,326 OF THE AMAZING ATLAS FIVE. 1164 00:40:12,326 --> 00:40:13,661 SCOTT, DO YOU WANT TO EXPLAIN 1165 00:40:13,661 --> 00:40:14,295 THAT PART? 1166 00:40:14,295 --> 00:40:16,964 >> YEAH, SO ATLAS FIVE HAS, AS 1167 00:40:16,964 --> 00:40:18,933 FAR AS I KNOW, A UNIQUE 1168 00:40:18,933 --> 00:40:21,035 CAPABILITY THAT NO OTHER VEHICLE 1169 00:40:21,035 --> 00:40:21,569 HAS. 1170 00:40:21,569 --> 00:40:23,137 IT'S CALLED RAND STEERING. 1171 00:40:23,137 --> 00:40:27,508 AND IT ALLOWS THE VEHICLE TO 1172 00:40:27,508 --> 00:40:29,610 STEER ONCE IT GETS UP INTO THE 1173 00:40:29,610 --> 00:40:31,245 SECOND STAGE, IS ABLE TO STEER 1174 00:40:31,245 --> 00:40:33,514 BACK TO WHERE IT NEEDS TO GO, 1175 00:40:33,514 --> 00:40:35,416 RIGHT, AS TIME GOES, THE EARTH 1176 00:40:35,416 --> 00:40:36,584 ROTATES A LITTLE BIT. 1177 00:40:36,584 --> 00:40:38,319 AND SO THE VEHICLE IS ABLE TO 1178 00:40:38,319 --> 00:40:41,422 FLY AND THEN IT STEERS BACK ON 1179 00:40:41,422 --> 00:40:43,057 TO THE COURSE AND IS ABLE TO GET 1180 00:40:43,057 --> 00:40:50,631 TO THE NEW TRAJECTORY PARAMETERS 1181 00:40:50,631 --> 00:40:53,200 IN EVERY FIVE MINUTE PERIOD. 1182 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,903 IT'S A UNIQUE CAPABILITY THAT 1183 00:40:55,903 --> 00:40:57,972 ATLAS HAS TO DO THAT. 1184 00:40:57,972 --> 00:41:01,609 >> IT GIVES THE LAUNCH TEAM 1185 00:41:01,609 --> 00:41:04,378 ASSURANCE FOR SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH 1186 00:41:04,378 --> 00:41:05,946 WHEN YOU HAVE A TWO-HOUR PERIOD 1187 00:41:05,946 --> 00:41:06,280 OF TIME. 1188 00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:07,081 >> THANK YOU BOTH FOR EXPLAINING 1189 00:41:07,081 --> 00:41:08,482 THAT AND WE'LL GO TO THE SECOND 1190 00:41:08,482 --> 00:41:10,651 ROW AT THE END RIGHT HERE. 1191 00:41:10,651 --> 00:41:13,787 >> MARY LIZ BENDER WITH COSMIC 1192 00:41:13,787 --> 00:41:14,755 PERSPECTIVE. 1193 00:41:14,755 --> 00:41:16,824 THIS IS FOR PROBABLY CESAR OR 1194 00:41:16,824 --> 00:41:17,358 IAN. 1195 00:41:17,358 --> 00:41:18,826 CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT YOU'VE 1196 00:41:18,826 --> 00:41:22,763 LEARNED FROM PARKER SOLAR PROBE, 1197 00:41:22,763 --> 00:41:25,366 IF ANYTHING, THAT'S AFFECTED THE 1198 00:41:25,366 --> 00:41:26,734 DESIGN OF THIS MISSION AND 1199 00:41:26,734 --> 00:41:27,134 SPACECRAFT. 1200 00:41:27,134 --> 00:41:28,202 >> CAN YOU REPEAT THE QUESTION? 1201 00:41:28,202 --> 00:41:29,003 >> OH, YES. 1202 00:41:29,003 --> 00:41:30,371 MAYBE THIS IS BETTER. 1203 00:41:30,371 --> 00:41:33,174 MARY LIZ BENDER WITH COSMIC 1204 00:41:33,174 --> 00:41:33,874 PERSPECTIVE. 1205 00:41:33,874 --> 00:41:35,342 FOR CESAR OR IAN. 1206 00:41:35,342 --> 00:41:36,577 IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU'VE 1207 00:41:36,577 --> 00:41:38,412 LEARNED FROM THE PARKER SOLAR 1208 00:41:38,412 --> 00:41:39,914 PROBE SPACECRAFT OR MISSION THAT 1209 00:41:39,914 --> 00:41:42,383 HAS AFFECTED THE DESIGN OF THIS 1210 00:41:42,383 --> 00:41:43,817 SPACECRAFT OR MISSION? 1211 00:41:43,817 --> 00:41:45,953 >> ANYTHING YOU'VE LEARNED FROM 1212 00:41:45,953 --> 00:41:48,389 PARKER SOLAR PROBE THAT WOULD 1213 00:41:48,389 --> 00:41:50,591 HELP WITH THIS MISSION? 1214 00:41:50,591 --> 00:41:54,061 >> YES, NO, THANK YOU. 1215 00:41:54,061 --> 00:41:57,898 FROM THE ENGINEERING VIEWPOINT, 1216 00:41:57,898 --> 00:41:59,233 TO DEVELOP THE SPACECRAFT OR 1217 00:41:59,233 --> 00:42:01,902 DEVELOP EMISSIONS, WE HAVE NOT. 1218 00:42:01,902 --> 00:42:04,205 FROM THE INSTRUMENTATION 1219 00:42:04,205 --> 00:42:05,906 PERSPECTIVE, THERE'S A DIFFERENT 1220 00:42:05,906 --> 00:42:07,775 -- THERE IS A DIFFERENT ANSWER 1221 00:42:07,775 --> 00:42:10,211 THERE, TWO INSTRUMENTS ON BOTH 1222 00:42:10,211 --> 00:42:14,615 OUR SPACECRAFT, WHICH HAVE HAD 1223 00:42:14,615 --> 00:42:17,484 INSTRUMENTS PARKER OR THE 1224 00:42:17,484 --> 00:42:19,920 COLLABORATIONS ON PARKER PROBE. 1225 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,856 BUT FROM OUR TECHNOLOGIES, OUR 1226 00:42:22,856 --> 00:42:27,595 TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS, OUR THERMAL 1227 00:42:27,595 --> 00:42:29,063 CONTROL SYSTEM, OUR POWER 1228 00:42:29,063 --> 00:42:30,664 CONTROL SYSTEM, THEY HAVE BEEN 1229 00:42:30,664 --> 00:42:32,233 DEVELOPED IN EUROPE AND THERE'S 1230 00:42:32,233 --> 00:42:34,034 BEEN NO REAL EXCHANGE OF 1231 00:42:34,034 --> 00:42:37,871 ENGINEERING DATA. 1232 00:42:37,871 --> 00:42:39,740 WITH THE DEVELOPERS OF PARKER. 1233 00:42:39,740 --> 00:42:40,808 >> I THINK IT'S BECAUSE THE 1234 00:42:40,808 --> 00:42:42,476 MISSIONS THEMSELVES ARE REALLY 1235 00:42:42,476 --> 00:42:43,777 QUITE SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT, 1236 00:42:43,777 --> 00:42:45,112 BECAUSE PARKER'S GOING SO MUCH 1237 00:42:45,112 --> 00:42:46,680 CLOSER TO THE SUN. 1238 00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:47,781 GETS SO MUCH HOTTER. 1239 00:42:47,781 --> 00:42:50,184 THE TECHNOLOGIES ARE REALLY 1240 00:42:50,184 --> 00:42:51,552 QUITE DIFFERENT. 1241 00:42:51,552 --> 00:42:52,152 >> ALL RIGHT. 1242 00:42:52,152 --> 00:42:52,886 AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 1243 00:42:52,886 --> 00:42:54,288 AND WE'LL GO TO THE FIRST ROW 1244 00:42:54,288 --> 00:42:56,423 HERE ON THE END FOR OUR NEXT 1245 00:42:56,423 --> 00:42:57,024 QUESTION. 1246 00:42:57,024 --> 00:42:59,994 >> HI, KIRBY TAYLOR, SKY NEWS 1247 00:42:59,994 --> 00:43:00,427 CANADA. 1248 00:43:00,427 --> 00:43:02,529 I GUESS THIS IS FOR SCOTT. 1249 00:43:02,529 --> 00:43:04,431 THERE WAS AN ISSUE FOR THE DRESS 1250 00:43:04,431 --> 00:43:05,833 REHEARSAL THAT YOU HAD TO ROLL 1251 00:43:05,833 --> 00:43:08,102 THE ROCKET BACK TO THE VERTICAL 1252 00:43:08,102 --> 00:43:09,103 INTEGRATION FACILITY. 1253 00:43:09,103 --> 00:43:10,371 CAN YOU EXPOUND A LITTLE BIT ON 1254 00:43:10,371 --> 00:43:11,639 THAT, WHAT THE FIX WAS? 1255 00:43:11,639 --> 00:43:14,942 >> YEAH, SO, WHAT WE RAN INTO 1256 00:43:14,942 --> 00:43:17,344 WAS THE WINDS THAT WE SAW DURING 1257 00:43:17,344 --> 00:43:20,214 THE WET DRESS REHEARSAL WERE 1258 00:43:20,214 --> 00:43:21,949 HIGHER AND MORE SUSTAINED THAN 1259 00:43:21,949 --> 00:43:24,218 ANYTHING WE HAD EVER SEEN BEFORE 1260 00:43:24,218 --> 00:43:25,719 AND WE HAD A DUCT THAT CAME 1261 00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:28,289 LOOSE AS A RESULT OF THAT. 1262 00:43:28,289 --> 00:43:30,291 SO WE HAD TO GO BACK AND 1263 00:43:30,291 --> 00:43:32,426 REEVALUATE THE WIND CONSTRAINTS 1264 00:43:32,426 --> 00:43:34,028 IN ORDER TO KNOW WHETHER WE 1265 00:43:34,028 --> 00:43:35,396 COULD ROLL OR NOT. 1266 00:43:35,396 --> 00:43:37,364 BUT THE TEAM WENT BACK, THEY PUT 1267 00:43:37,364 --> 00:43:39,033 THE DUCT ON AND PUT A NEW DUCT 1268 00:43:39,033 --> 00:43:40,868 ON AND WE'VE REEVALUATED THE 1269 00:43:40,868 --> 00:43:42,770 WIND CONSTRAINTS TO BE OUT THERE 1270 00:43:42,770 --> 00:43:46,106 AND WE'RE READY TO GO AGAIN. 1271 00:43:46,106 --> 00:43:47,574 >> LIKE I SAID, THIS IS THE 1272 00:43:47,574 --> 00:43:49,543 HIGHEST WINDS WE'VE EVER SEEN 1273 00:43:49,543 --> 00:43:51,845 WHILE THE VEHICLE'S BEEN OUT 1274 00:43:51,845 --> 00:43:53,414 THERE SUSTAINED. 1275 00:43:53,414 --> 00:43:54,081 >> THANK YOU. 1276 00:43:54,081 --> 00:43:56,383 >> ALL RIGHT, THE SECOND ROW 1277 00:43:56,383 --> 00:44:00,020 HERE, THE GENTLEMAN HERE IN THE 1278 00:44:00,020 --> 00:44:00,387 BLUE. 1279 00:44:00,387 --> 00:44:04,091 >> A QUESTION FOR JESSICA. 1280 00:44:04,091 --> 00:44:05,993 ANY CONCERNS FOR UPPER LEVEL 1281 00:44:05,993 --> 00:44:07,561 WIND FOR THIS LAUNCH? 1282 00:44:07,561 --> 00:44:09,129 >> I CAN TURN IT OVER AFTERWARDS 1283 00:44:09,129 --> 00:44:10,731 BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW THE 1284 00:44:10,731 --> 00:44:12,099 SPECIFIC VEHICLE CONSTRAINT FOR 1285 00:44:12,099 --> 00:44:13,300 UPPER LEVEL WINDS, BUT BECAUSE 1286 00:44:13,300 --> 00:44:15,202 THE HIGH PRESSURE IS MOVING IN 1287 00:44:15,202 --> 00:44:19,573 AND WE HAVE A -- WE'RE NOT 1288 00:44:19,573 --> 00:44:21,742 EXPECTING A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT 1289 00:44:21,742 --> 00:44:23,477 OF WIND SHEAR OR 150 KNOTS IN 1290 00:44:23,477 --> 00:44:24,244 THE UPPER LEVELS. 1291 00:44:24,244 --> 00:44:26,280 >> YEAH, WE HAVE A WHOLE 1292 00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,716 SCHEDULE OF BALLOONS THAT WE 1293 00:44:28,716 --> 00:44:30,818 RELEASE STARTING AT ABOUT FOUR, 1294 00:44:30,818 --> 00:44:33,721 FIVE HOURS AHEAD OF LAUNCH THAT 1295 00:44:33,721 --> 00:44:36,657 GATHER US THE WIND DATA AS WE GO 1296 00:44:36,657 --> 00:44:40,661 UP AND ALLOWS US-- 1297 00:44:40,661 --> 00:44:42,563 ATLAS AGAIN IS VERY ROBUST WHEN 1298 00:44:42,563 --> 00:44:44,565 IT COMES TO UPPER LEVEL WINDS. 1299 00:44:44,565 --> 00:44:46,734 SO GIVEN JESSICA'S FORECAST I 1300 00:44:46,734 --> 00:44:48,802 WOULD BET THAT WE'RE PROBABLY IN 1301 00:44:48,802 --> 00:44:49,703 GOOD SHAPE. 1302 00:44:49,703 --> 00:44:52,306 >> ALL RIGHT, ARE THERE ANY MORE 1303 00:44:52,306 --> 00:44:55,943 QUESTIONS FOR EITHER SOLAR 1304 00:44:55,943 --> 00:44:57,911 ORBITER TEAM OR THE LAUNCH TEAM? 1305 00:44:57,911 --> 00:44:59,513 MARSHA ONE MORE QUESTION. 1306 00:44:59,513 --> 00:45:01,448 >> COULD YOU ESTIMATE HOW MANY 1307 00:45:01,448 --> 00:45:03,350 EUROPEANS HAVE COMFORT LAUNCH, 1308 00:45:03,350 --> 00:45:05,252 HOW MANY FROM AIRBUS, ESA, HOW 1309 00:45:05,252 --> 00:45:09,056 MANY PEOPLE ARE HERE FOR THE-- 1310 00:45:09,056 --> 00:45:11,258 >> WHILE THERE ARE PEOPLE DOING 1311 00:45:11,258 --> 00:45:13,560 THE WORK AND THERE ARE PEOPLE 1312 00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,997 WHO HAVE CAME TO WITNESS THE 1313 00:45:16,997 --> 00:45:17,531 LAUNCH. 1314 00:45:17,531 --> 00:45:19,600 TO WITNESS THE LAUNCH, I THINK 1315 00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:22,336 WE LEARNED TODAY ABOUT 800 1316 00:45:22,336 --> 00:45:26,473 PEOPLE AND HERE WORKING WE ARE A 1317 00:45:26,473 --> 00:45:28,308 TEAM OF ABOUT 75. 1318 00:45:28,308 --> 00:45:30,043 >> BETWEEN THE TWO. 1319 00:45:30,043 --> 00:45:30,611 >> YES. 1320 00:45:30,611 --> 00:45:33,013 >> BETWEEN AIRBUS AND ESA, ABOUT 1321 00:45:33,013 --> 00:45:34,248 75 PEOPLE. 1322 00:45:34,248 --> 00:45:36,450 YEAH AND THAT'S AIRBUS AND ESA 1323 00:45:36,450 --> 00:45:41,422 AND I GUESS HUNDREDS FROM YOUR 1324 00:45:41,422 --> 00:45:42,022 GUYS. 1325 00:45:42,022 --> 00:45:43,590 PUTTING THE ROCKET TOGETHER IS A 1326 00:45:43,590 --> 00:45:44,458 MAJOR ENDEAVOR. 1327 00:45:44,458 --> 00:45:45,959 >> A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE, GOT TO 1328 00:45:45,959 --> 00:45:47,528 MAKE SURE WE GET THIS ROCKET 1329 00:45:47,528 --> 00:45:47,895 OFF. 1330 00:45:47,895 --> 00:45:48,662 ALL RIGHT, VERY GOOD. 1331 00:45:48,662 --> 00:45:50,664 ANY MORE QUESTIONS FOR THE TEAM 1332 00:45:50,664 --> 00:45:51,565 HERE? 1333 00:45:51,565 --> 00:45:52,433 MIDDLE ROW. 1334 00:45:52,433 --> 00:45:59,039 >> RICK LANDSBY WITH WFIT. 1335 00:45:59,039 --> 00:46:00,841 CAN YOU TELL US WHAT THE OVERALL 1336 00:46:00,841 --> 00:46:02,509 LENGTH OF THE MISSION IS ONCE 1337 00:46:02,509 --> 00:46:03,744 IT'S ORBITING THE SUN? 1338 00:46:03,744 --> 00:46:05,612 >> WELL, I DON'T THINK I DID. 1339 00:46:05,612 --> 00:46:07,648 SO, IT'S A GOOD QUESTION. 1340 00:46:07,648 --> 00:46:09,750 LET'S SAY TEN YEARS. 1341 00:46:09,750 --> 00:46:11,919 WE DIVIDE THE MISSION IN PHASES. 1342 00:46:11,919 --> 00:46:15,422 FIRST WE HAVE TO GET TO AN ORBIT 1343 00:46:15,422 --> 00:46:17,024 THAT TAKES US RELATIVELY CLOSE 1344 00:46:17,024 --> 00:46:19,092 TO THE SUN AND FOR THIS WE NEED 1345 00:46:19,092 --> 00:46:21,228 A FLY-BY AROUND THE EARTH, A 1346 00:46:21,228 --> 00:46:22,930 LITTLE LESS THAN TWO YEARS FROM 1347 00:46:22,930 --> 00:46:24,031 NOW AND WE GO-- 1348 00:46:24,031 --> 00:46:26,333 ONCE YOU GET CLOSER TO THE SUN 1349 00:46:26,333 --> 00:46:28,335 AND YOU CAN DO YOUR REGULAR 1350 00:46:28,335 --> 00:46:31,171 MISSION AND THEN WE ARE IN THAT 1351 00:46:31,171 --> 00:46:34,374 PHASE FOR YEARS, AND THEN YOU 1352 00:46:34,374 --> 00:46:37,511 HAVE ANOTHER FLY-BY AROUND VENUS 1353 00:46:37,511 --> 00:46:40,647 THAT WILL CHANGE THE ORBITAL 1354 00:46:40,647 --> 00:46:43,317 PLANE AND THAT TAKES US UP TO 32 1355 00:46:43,317 --> 00:46:46,253 DEGREES OUT OF THE EQUATOR, AND 1356 00:46:46,253 --> 00:46:48,288 THEN WE WILL FINISH THE MISSION 1357 00:46:48,288 --> 00:46:50,357 AFTER TEN YEARS. 1358 00:46:50,357 --> 00:46:53,627 HOWEVER, WE DO HAVE WHAT WE CALL 1359 00:46:53,627 --> 00:46:55,896 CONSUMEABLES LONGER THAN THAT, 1360 00:46:55,896 --> 00:47:01,468 AND WITH THE WORSE CASES, WE'VE 1361 00:47:01,468 --> 00:47:04,271 DESIGNED TO SUSTAIN FAILURES, SO 1362 00:47:04,271 --> 00:47:06,640 OUR EXPECTATION AFTER TEN YEARS 1363 00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:09,343 WE'LL HAVE THOSE TO KEEP GOING, 1364 00:47:09,343 --> 00:47:10,711 BUT THE MAJOR MISSION OF THE 1365 00:47:10,711 --> 00:47:12,012 GOAL WILL HAVE BEEN 1366 00:47:12,012 --> 00:47:12,613 ACCOMPLISHED. 1367 00:47:12,613 --> 00:47:13,480 >> ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE TIME FOR 1368 00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:14,281 ONE LAST QUESTION. 1369 00:47:14,281 --> 00:47:15,749 WE'LL GO TO THE BACK OF THE ROOM 1370 00:47:15,749 --> 00:47:17,017 OVER HERE ON THE RIGHT-HAND 1371 00:47:17,017 --> 00:47:17,417 SIDE. 1372 00:47:17,417 --> 00:47:19,386 THE GENTLEMAN IN THE GREEN 1373 00:47:19,386 --> 00:47:19,820 SHIRT. 1374 00:47:19,820 --> 00:47:23,123 >> HI, BBC, SCOTT KNIGHT. 1375 00:47:23,123 --> 00:47:26,560 JUST A QUESTION, REALLY, KNOCKED 1376 00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:28,428 BACK SOME PROBLEMS, AND 1377 00:47:28,428 --> 00:47:29,830 EVERYONE, FOR ALL THE HARD WORK, 1378 00:47:29,830 --> 00:47:31,031 HOW DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING TO 1379 00:47:31,031 --> 00:47:33,867 FEEL WHEN IT FINALLY GOES OFF 1380 00:47:33,867 --> 00:47:34,468 SUCCESSFULLY? 1381 00:47:34,468 --> 00:47:35,736 >> I'M PRETTY SURE I'M GOING TO 1382 00:47:35,736 --> 00:47:37,204 FEEL AMAZING. 1383 00:47:37,204 --> 00:47:37,704 [LAUGHTER] 1384 00:47:37,704 --> 00:47:40,073 >> I ALREADY FEEL AMAZING NOW. 1385 00:47:40,073 --> 00:47:42,242 TO SEE THE SPACECRAFT ON TOP OF 1386 00:47:42,242 --> 00:47:44,011 THE ROCKET THIS MORNING AND ULA 1387 00:47:44,011 --> 00:47:46,914 AND NASA INVITED ME TO DO THE 1388 00:47:46,914 --> 00:47:48,248 WALKDOWN THIS MORNING AND IT'S A 1389 00:47:48,248 --> 00:47:50,284 FABULOUS SIGHT SO I'M ALREADY 1390 00:47:50,284 --> 00:47:51,351 FEELING VERY GOOD. 1391 00:47:51,351 --> 00:47:53,320 I KNOW IN 48 HOURS I'M GOING TO 1392 00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:54,588 FEEL REALLY GOOD. 1393 00:47:54,588 --> 00:47:55,222 [LAUGHTER] 1394 00:47:55,222 --> 00:47:56,490 >> ALL RIGHT. 1395 00:47:56,490 --> 00:47:58,258 THANK YOU ALL FOR THE 1396 00:47:58,258 --> 00:47:59,993 INFORMATION AND THE UPDATE AND 1397 00:47:59,993 --> 00:48:01,728 SHARING ALL YOUR KNOWLEDGE WITH 1398 00:48:01,728 --> 00:48:02,729 US FOR SOLAR ORBITER. 1399 00:48:02,729 --> 00:48:04,031 WE WANT TO REMIND EVERYBODY THAT 1400 00:48:04,031 --> 00:48:05,632 IF YOU WANT MORE INFORMATION 1401 00:48:05,632 --> 00:48:08,201 ABOUT THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE 1402 00:48:08,201 --> 00:48:10,604 MISSION, TUNE BACK IN ON NASA TV 1403 00:48:10,604 --> 00:48:12,839 AT 2:30 FOR OUR SCIENCE BRIEFING 1404 00:48:12,839 --> 00:48:14,207 WITH EXPERTS FROM NASA AND THE 1405 00:48:14,207 --> 00:48:15,509 EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY AND FOR 1406 00:48:15,509 --> 00:48:17,744 MORE INFORMATION ON THIS MISSION 1407 00:48:17,744 --> 00:48:25,586 ONLINE, JUST GO TO 1408 00:48:25,586 --> 00:48:26,486 NASA.GOV/SOLAR-ORBITER. 1409 00:48:26,486 --> 00:48:27,721 THAT'S SOLAR-ORBITER. 1410 00:48:27,721 --> 00:48:29,389 DON'T FORGET ABOUT OUR LAUNCH 1411 00:48:29,389 --> 00:48:32,859 COVERAGE ON NASA TV, THE 1412 00:48:32,859 --> 00:48:35,429 BROADCAST 10:30 EASTERN TIME ON 1413 00:48:35,429 --> 00:48:36,029 SUNDAY. 1414 00:48:36,029 --> 00:48:37,664 UNTIL THEN I'M FROM NASA KENNEDY 1415 00:48:37,664 --> 00:48:39,066 TO REMIND YOU TO KEEP LOOKING 1416 00:48:39,066 --> 00:48:41,969 UP.