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Thursday, May 28, 2015

SDO/EVE Calibration Rocket Did Not Follow Planned Trajectory

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The SDO EVE calibration rocket was cut down by range safety about 16 seconds after launch. The rocket did not fly the planned trajectory and...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Launching a Sounding Rocket to Help Calibrate NASA's SDO

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Tomorrow at high noon Mountain Time, the SDO EVE calibration sounding rocket will launch from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. It is...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

DDS offline, Back online at 0130 UTC (9 p.m. ET)

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The SDO DDS went offline at about 2247 UTC (6:47 p.m. ET). The SDO Flight Operations Team is looking into the outage. UPDATE: As of 013...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

IRU Calibration Maneuver is Complete

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Today's IRU calibration Maneuver has finished. Here is a short movie showing what SDO did. We first pointed the high-gain antennas away ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

IRU Calibration Maneuver

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SDO will perform an IRU Calibration maneuver on May 13, 2015 from 0400 UTC  (Midnight) to 1200 UTC (8 a.m. ET). The spacecraft will perform ...
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Momentum Management Maneuver #22 Complete

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SDO executed Momentum Management Maneuver #22 today at 1815 UTC (2:15 pm ET). We used 48.8 gr (1.72 oz) of propellant to change the reaction...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

SDO 171 and 304 images get brighter

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We've adjusted the settings on the AIA 171 Å (yellow) and 304 Å (orange) images - the Sun isn't getting brighter, the settings have...