{"id":212,"date":"2014-09-19T06:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T06:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whattrendingnow.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/19\/nasa-mars-spacecraft-ready-for-sept-21\/"},"modified":"2014-09-19T06:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T06:14:00","slug":"nasa-mars-spacecraft-ready-for-sept-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikiindian.com\/news\/nasa-mars-spacecraft-ready-for-sept-21\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Mars Spacecraft Ready for Sept. 21 Orbit Insertion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><strong>NASA\u2019s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft is nearing its scheduled Sept. 21 insertion into Martian orbit after completing a 10-month interplanetary journey of 442 million miles.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><strong>Flight Controllers at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Littleton, Colorado, will be responsible for the health and safety of the spacecraft throughout the process. The spacecraft\u2019s mission timeline will place the spacecraft in orbit at approximately 9:50 p.m. EDT.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><strong>\u201cSo far, so good with the performance of the spacecraft and payloads on the cruise to Mars,\u201d said David Mitchell, MAVEN project manager at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. \u201cThe team, the flight system, and all ground assets are ready for Mars orbit insertion.\u201d<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><strong>The orbit-insertion maneuver will begin with the brief firing of six small thruster engines to steady the spacecraft. The engines will ignite and burn for 33 minutes to slow the craft, allowing it to be pulled into an elliptical orbit with a period of 35 hours.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><strong>Following orbit insertion, MAVEN will begin a six-week commissioning phase that includes maneuvering the spacecraft into its final orbit and testing its instruments and science-mapping commands. Thereafter, MAVEN will begin its one-Earth-year primary mission to take measurements of the composition, structure and escape of gases in Mars\u2019 upper atmosphere and its interaction with the sun and solar wind.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><strong>\u201cThe MAVEN science mission focuses on answering questions about where did the water that was present on early Mars go, about where did the carbon dioxide go,\u201d said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator from the University of Colorado, Boulder&#8217;s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. \u201cThese are important questions for understanding the history of Mars, its climate, and its potential to support at least microbial life.\u201d<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><strong>MAVEN launched Nov. 18, 2013, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying three instrument packages. It is the first spacecraft dedicated to exploring the upper atmosphere of Mars. The mission\u2019s combination of detailed measurements at specific points in Mars\u2019 atmosphere and global imaging provides a powerful tool for understanding the properties of the Red Planet\u2019s upper atmosphere.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><strong>\u201cMAVEN is another NASA robotic scientific explorer that is paving the way for our journey to Mars,\u201d said Jim Green, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. \u201cTogether, robotics and humans will pioneer the Red Planet and the solar system to help answer some of humanity\u2019s fundamental questions about life beyond Earth.\u201d<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft is nearing its scheduled Sept. 21 insertion into Martian orbit after completing &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85,86],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nasa-news","tag-nasa-space-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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