The Orbital Sciences Taurus XL rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying NASA's Glory spacecraft. The Earth-observing satellite was intended to improve our understanding of how the sun and tiny atmospheric particles called aerosols affect Earth's climate. — NASA — Our Changing Earth Source: NASA (https://images.nasa.gov/) Licence: Public domain (work of the U.S. federal government, 17 U.S.C. §105) Audio is served by the publisher; Budi does not host or modify it.
0:00T-minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. And ignition of the Taurus rocket with glory, monitoring how changes in Earth's climate may affect our lives. Zero TVA nominal. The stage zero TVA system is operating as expected to maintain vehicle latitude.
0:39Vehicle power bus is nominal. Resident Rick Hanke, our Taurus launch vehicle flight engineer. Attitude remains nominal as the vehicle passes through the period of maximum aerodynamic pressure.
1:01Vehicle velocity is approximately 2,000 miles per hour at an altitude of approximately 10 miles. One minute into the glory mission, all systems nominal, expecting stage one ignition in approximately 20 seconds. When TVA initialized, expecting state one ignition and approximately 10 seconds.
1:36One ignition and video confirms state zero separation. Vehicle attitude nominal following state zero separations.
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