LADEE is Heading For The Moon with One Small Glitch (with video)
“NASA has confirmed that the reaction wheels of its Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) were successfully brought back on-line and the spacecraft has acquired its safe-mode attitude profile.”
Mission updates will be carried on NASA TV. You can also track mission status by following @NASALADEE or at the mission website.
Space Laser: Testing an Interplanetary Internet from the Moon, OSTP
“Optical laser communications will enable a variety of robust future science and human exploration missions–providing a higher data rate, and delivering more accurate navigation capabilities with reduced size, weight, and power requirements. Someday, maybe, the Solar System will be peppered with a high-speed interplanetary communications network much like the wireless Web currently spinning here on Earth.”

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10 replies on “LADEE is Heading For The Moon”

  1. Ames will have a Science Night featuring LADEE Mission, from 5 to 9
    p.m. PDT on Friday, Sept. 6 at the Shenandoah Plaza, with subject matter experts ready to speak about LADEE and other NASA programs and projects,science booths, telescopes, gourmet food, live music and games. Ames Video Group may stream this event live at http://www.ustream.tv/chann…

  2. Watched it from Belcamp, Harford County MD. Quite bright. Saw MECO and second stage ignition clearly. Left a persistent smoke trail visible for several minutes.

  3. I did not like the NASA TV coverage. Those Edge people acted like they had never seen a launch before. They cut away from the launch coverage to say goodby and said the spacecraft had separated. It had not. I like to listen to launch control. Great to see a trouble free launch. The reaction wheel problem should be fixed ok.

  4. Unfortunately Ames video group did not stream this event. They had interesting presentations, lots of exhibits of Kepler, IRIS, and LADEE (with many handouts), live bands including John Marmie, crowd all yelled final seconds of countdown. When the big screen had feed from NASA-TV and showed LADEE mission control, the crowd roared.

  7. mfwright Sorry to disappoint you, but the Ames video group was never tasked with streaming the event. I’m pretty sure that more people were interested in the launch coverage than listening to John Marmie rip off Cat Stevens again and those that could not make it watched the launch on NASA TV or the NASA TV webstream.

  8. Pretty excited about these Wallops launches. Saw Antares go up from NYC a few months ago. Being a liquid rocket daytime launch I was just able to see a wisp of contrail at the right altitude. This Minotaur solid night launch was pretty awesome. And it seems the word got out to so despite the late hour I’m enjoying all the time exposed pics that people got. Looking forward to Antares again this month and a bright future of more launches in the NE!

  9. Glade to hear the wheels are turning. Don’t think there there will be a Solar Wide Web with lasers. The delays will still be their. At Mars go to the Web and wait 15 min. to start to load. The TLI burn will not be until Oct.

    1. The intent is not to reduce the delays, especially as those delays are constrained by physics. The intent is to increase bandwidth.

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