File:Six SRB fall away from Delta II.jpg
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English: Right on schedule, six solid rocket boosters fall away from the Delta II rocket carrying NASA's THEMIS spacecraft to orbit. The first six boosters were jettisoned after 66 seconds of flight. The rocket has a total of nine boosters. Launch was at 6:01 p.m. EST from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. THEMIS, an acronym for Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms, consists of five identical probes that will track violent, colorful eruptions near the North Pole. This will be the largest number of scientific satellites NASA has ever launched into orbit aboard a single rocket. The THEMIS mission aims to unravel the mystery behind auroral substorms, an avalanche of magnetic energy powered by the solar wind that intensifies the northern and southern lights. The mission will investigate what causes auroras in the Earth’s atmosphere to dramatically change from slowly shimmering waves of light to wildly shifting streaks of bright color. |
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| current | 19:13, 6 April 2007 | | 3,000 × 2,008 (415 KB) | Uwe W. (talk | contribs) | == Summary == {{Information |Description=Six SRB fall away from a Delta II 7925 rocket, 66 secons in flight, carrying the THEMIS Stellites. The rocket had nine boosters at launch. |Source=http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=31355 |Date=Fe |
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