Mission Overview
 Launch date:
September 2013Launch site: Wallops Flight Facility, Va. Launch vehicle: Minotaur V Mission duration: Approximately 160 days (30 days to travel to the moon, 30 days for checkout and 100 days for science operations) Mass: Approximately 844 pounds (383 kilograms) Power: Approximately 295 Watts |
The LADEE spacecraft's modular common spacecraft bus, or body, is an innovative way of transitioning away from custom designs and toward multi-use designs and assembly-line production, which could drastically reduce the cost of spacecraft development, just as the Ford Model T did for automobiles.
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Accreditation Open for NASA's New Moon Mission Launch at NASA's Wallops
07.30.13 - Media accreditation now is open for the launch of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer mission in September from NASA's Wallops Fligh ...
Wallops' Building V-55: Not Your Typical Filling Station
07.18.13 - The fueling station at V-55 on north Wallops Island had yet to open for business, but the vehicles were already lining up. Now entering its fourth mon ...
LADEE Project Manager Update: LADEE Journeys to its Launch Facility
07.11.13 - NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) Observatory has successfully made the cross-country trip from NASA's Ames Research Cente ...
The media activities are associated with the launch of NASA's Lunar
Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer mission, the agency's Hurricane and
Severe Storm Sentinel Mission research flights and the launch of Orbital
Sciences Corp.'s demonstration mission to the International Space Station.
Media should send their accreditation request for these three events to Keith
Koehler by email at keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov. For
questions about accreditation or additional information, contact Koehler by
phone at 757-824-1579.
Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is scheduled to
launch at 11:27 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 6. Backup launch days are Sept. 7-10.
LADEE is a robotic mission that will orbit the moon to gather detailed
information about the structure and composition of the thin lunar atmosphere and
determine whether dust is being lofted into the lunar sky.
A thorough understanding of these characteristics of our nearest celestial
neighbor will help researchers understand other bodies in the solar system, such
as Mercury, outer planet moons and larger asteroids.
LADEE will launch from the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport's (MARS) Pad 0B on
a U.S. Air Force Minotaur V rocket, an excess ballistic missile converted in to
a space launch vehicle and operated by Orbital. This will be the first flight of
the Minotaur V and the first launch beyond Earth orbit from Wallops.
Media without U.S. citizenship must apply by Friday, Aug. 16, for credentials
to cover the prelaunch and launch activities. The early accreditation is needed
to meet NASA's deadline to process international media credentials. For media
who are U.S. citizens, the application deadline is Monday, Aug. 26.
For information about NASA's LADEE mission, visit:
Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) Mission Media
Day
During August and September, NASA will fly two Global Hawk unmanned aerial
vehicles over the Atlantic Ocean to study tropical cyclones and the processes
that underlie hurricane formation and intensification. The aircraft are equipped
with instruments to survey the overall environment of the storms and peer into
the inner core of hurricanes to study their structure and processes.
NASA will conduct a media day beginning at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10.
Reporters will meet HS3 scientists and pilots and learn about NASA's efforts to
better understand these powerful storms. Media also will be able to view the
Global Hawks and tour the Wallops Global Hawk Operations Center.
Journalists without U.S. citizenship must apply for credentials to
participate in media day activities by Friday, Aug. 23. For media who are U.S.
citizens, the application deadline is Tuesday, Sept. 3.
For information on the HS3 mission, visit:
Antares-Cygnus Launch to ISS
Orbital Science Corp., one of NASA's two partners in the Commercial Orbital
Transportation Services (COTS) program, is targeting a launch window of
Saturday, Sept. 14 to Thursday, Sept. 19 for a demonstration flight of its
Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. Orbital's Antares
rocket will launch the spacecraft from MARS Pad 0A.
Media without U.S. citizenship must apply for credentials to cover the
prelaunch and launch activities by Tuesday, Aug. 27. For media who are U.S.
citizens, the deadline to apply is Sept. 6.
For more information about Orbital's demonstration mission to the space
station, visit:
For more information about NASA's commercial space initiatives, visit:
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