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The Incredible Data Stream of SDO
When NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) leaves Earth in November 2009 onboard an Atlas V rocket, the thunderous launch will trigger an avalanche.
Mission planners are bracing themselves -- not for rocks or snow, but an avalanche of data.

"SDO will beam back 150 million bits of data per second, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week" - Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Md.

That's almost 50 times more science data than any other mission in NASA history.

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NASA is preparing to launch an orbital observatory that can pick apart the inner workings of the sun. The project is an attempt to improve predictions of space weather events that can impact GPS and other satellite systems, radio transmissions and power grids on Earth.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is part of a NASA program called "Living With a Star," which is focused on understanding how the sun impacts life on Earth.

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NASA's upcoming mission to study the sun in unprecedented detail and its effects on Earth, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. on July 9.
The spacecraft left NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Md., on July 7, where it was built and tested.
SDO will undergo final testing at Astrotech Space Operations, located near Kennedy Space Centre, in preparation for its anticipated November launch. The SDO team will conduct of series of tests to be sure that the observatory arrived in good condition, as it is being readied for launch.

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