Atlas 5 SDO Launch Replays - Part 1

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory climbs to orbit on a crisp Florida morning. Liftoff from Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station was at 10:23 a.m. EST Feb. 11. This is the 100th launch of a commercial Atlas/Centaur rocket. The observatory, known as SDO, is the first mission in NASA's Living With a Star Program and is designed to study the causes of solar variability and its impacts on Earth. The spacecraft's long-term measurements will give solar scientists in-depth information to help characterize the interior of the Sun, the Sun's magnetic field, the hot plasma of the solar corona, and the density of radiation that creates the ionosphere of the planets. The information will be used to create better forecasts of space weather needed to protect the aircraft, satellites and astronauts living and working in space. For information on SDO, visit http://www.nasa.gov/sdo

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[JimC]

Oh, yeah! Right at 10:00. That must be the point where the sundog gets disrupted in the spectator video.

[TimeLapseSteve]

I love at the very end where it punches through the light cirrus deck; you can see the shock waves from the engine exhaust rippling through the clouds. Cool stuff.

[leodmessias]

Incrivel

[Gutubeuser]

Maravilhoso !