{"id":1560,"date":"2009-12-13T08:39:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/i%e2%80%99m-watching-the-launch-of-nasa%e2%80%99s-wise-spacecraft\/"},"modified":"2009-12-13T08:39:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:39:54","slug":"i%e2%80%99m-watching-the-launch-of-nasa%e2%80%99s-wise-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/i%e2%80%99m-watching-the-launch-of-nasa%e2%80%99s-wise-spacecraft.php","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m watching the launch of NASA\u2019s WISE spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Tt2NuKGJASc\/SyIlG9__K2I\/AAAAAAAABM4\/FL_vLnmnwHw\/s1600-h\/wise-spacecraft.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b31ee_wise-spacecraft.jpg\" alt=\"NASA&rsquo;s WISE spacecraft\" title=\"NASA&rsquo;s WISE spacecraft\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413930503705144162\" border=\"0\"><\/a>The launch has been rescheduled for Monday, Dec. 14, at 6:09 a.m. PST. A component on the Delta II launch vehicle will be replaced and weather looks more favorable for a Monday launch.<br>--<br><span>NASA&rsquo;s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer<\/span> (WISE) is scheduled to launch Dec. 14, 2009 aboard a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It will circle <span><a href=\"http:\/\/spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com\/\">Earth<\/a> <\/span>over the poles, scanning the entire sky in infrared light one-and-a-half times in nine months. During that time <span>WISE <\/span>will be snapping millions of pictures of everything from near-Earth asteroids to brown dwarfs to faraway galaxies bursting with new stars. Data from this all-sky survey will be used to target current and future space telescopes on the most curious and intriguing objects.<p>Beginning at 4 a.m. PST (7 a.m. EST\/1200 UTC) on Dec. 14, countdown coverage of the WISE launch will be available on NASA-TV (check local cable listings for channel number) and on the Web at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ntv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" onmousedown=\"'UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this),\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ntv<\/a>  .  Coverage will conclude at 7:45 a.m. PST (10:45 a.m. EST\/15:45UTC) after <span>spacecraft<\/span> separation.<\/p><p>NASA's launch blog also kicks off at 4 a.m. PST (7 a.m. EST) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/WISE\/launch\/launch_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" onmousedown=\"'UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this),\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/WISE\/launch\/launch_blog.html<\/a> . Coverage features real-time updates of countdown milestones, as well as streaming video clips highlighting launch preparations and liftoff.<\/p><p>WISE launch window for December 14:<br>6:09 a.m. to 6:23 a.m. PST<br>9:09 a.m. to 9:23 a.m. EST<br>14:09 to 14:23 UTC<\/p><p>For detailed information on the mission and the launch, download the press kit at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/press_kits\/wise-launch.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" onmousedown=\"'UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this),\">http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/press_kits\/wise-launch.pdf<\/a><\/p><p>More information about WISE is available online at:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/wise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" onmousedown=\"'UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this),\">http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/wise\/<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wise.astro.ucla.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" onmousedown=\"'UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this),\">http:\/\/wise.astro.ucla.edu<\/a><\/p><p><\/p><\/div><hr color=\"#0099ff\" size=\"1\">View this site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaat.com\/\" title=\"car shipping\">car shipping<\/a><hr color=\"#0099ff\" size=\"1\"><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b31ee_1205796008215741128-4507907858884326297?l=spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch has been rescheduled for Monday, Dec. 14, at 6:09 a.m. PST. A component on the Delta II launch vehicle will be replaced and weather looks more favorable for a Monday launch.--NASA&rsquo;s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is scheduled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/i%e2%80%99m-watching-the-launch-of-nasa%e2%80%99s-wise-spacecraft.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-station"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}