Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report

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Jan. 8, 2010

George H. Diller
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468
george.h.diller@nasa.gov

STATUS REPORT: ELV-010810

EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE STATUS REPORT

Spacecraft: Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
Launch Vehicle: Atlas V-401
Launch Pad: Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Launch Date:  Feb. 9, 2010
Launch Window: 10:53 - 11:53 a.m. EST 

The Centaur upper stage, the second stage of the Atlas V rocket, was 
transported from the hangar at the Atlas Spaceflight Operations 
Center (ASOC), to the Vertical Integration Facility located at Launch 
Complex 41. It was then hoisted atop the Atlas first stage. 
Integrated testing for the Atlas V will now begin.

At the Astrotech payload processing facility, ground support equipment 
is being set up in preparation for placing propellants aboard the SDO 
spacecraft. Fuel is scheduled to be loaded aboard on Jan. 4 and 
oxidizer on Jan. 7. The Atlas V fairing is currently scheduled to be 
installed around the SDO spacecraft on Jan. 15 and then transported 
to Complex 41 for hoisting atop the Atlas V on Jan. 20. 



Spacecraft: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-P)
Launch Vehicle: Delta IV
Launch Pad:  Complex 37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Launch Date:  Feb. 25, 2010


With the arrival of GOES-P on Dec. 17, Boeing spacecraft engineers and 
technicians are beginning testing of the satellite at the Astrotech 
payload processing facility located near the Kennedy Space Center. 
Electrical testing of the spacecraft bus was completed this week. The 
spacecraft is now powered down for the holidays.

Testing of the instruments will begin Jan. 6. The full testing of the 
satellite takes approximately six weeks and involves the imaging 
system, instrumentation, communications and power systems. Then the 
satellite will be fueled with the propellant necessary for orbit 
maneuvers and the attitude control system. Once this is completed, 
the spacecraft will be encapsulated in the Delta IV payload fairing 
in preparation for being transported to the launch pad and hoisted 
atop the rocket.

The Delta IV United Launch Alliance Delta IV expendable launch vehicle 
will be installed into the launcher at Complex 37 in early January. 
GOES-P, to be launched for NASA and NOAA, is a United Launch Alliance 
commercial launch under a Federal Aviation Administration license. 



Previous status reports are available at:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/status/index.html 
 

	
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