Multiple Tweetups Planned for Solar Dynamics Observatory Launch
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Next Monday and Tuesday, I’ll be in Cape Canaveral as a Twitter correspondent for a two-day event culminating with the launch (if all stays on schedule) of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). I was one of 15 lucky people chosen at random, according to NASA, from a pool of applicants to attend and tweet about SDO’s launch. Fifty other twitter-folk were chosen for a simultaneous two-day tweetup at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where SDO was designed and assembled, and from where it will be managed after its launch.
On the day of the launch, several dozen schools, astronomy clubs, and individuals are hosting their own SDO events, with NASA’s support, encouragement, and educational materials. Although most are in the U.S., these tweetups will span the globe, with events scheduled in at least five continents.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
is scheduled to be launched from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch
Complex 41 at around 11 a.m. February 9 atop an Atlas V rocket. It will
be placed in a geosynchronous orbit, where it will be prepped to begin
its nominal 5-year mission to study the sun.
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