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In The Loop: Cleanroom Progress
With the first mission simulation just about a month away, let's check in on RBSP spacecraft work.
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In The Loop: An Instrumental Milestone
The RBSP team marks a development milestone amid a flurry of instrument activities.
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In The Loop: One IEM, Two IEM
Both RBSP spacecraft are now equipped with Integrated Electronics Modules (IEMs), which contain radiation-hardened processors and allow subsystems and instruments on the spacecraft to exchange data.
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RBSP Spins Up Two Test Successes
NASA's RBSP mission recently made another significant step forward toward its scheduled launch in August 2012, thanks to the successful testing of the mass properties of spacecraft A by the RBSP team...
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In The Loop: Space Academy Probes RBSP Mission
On Oct. 28, more than 100 students from three Maryland public middle schools made a trip to APL to find out about NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission.
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In The Loop: Now Available - RBSP Wallpapers
Enhance your desktop with four new wallpapers featuring the RBSP spacecraft, in both full screen and wide screen formats.
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NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes Ready for Space Environment Tests
NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), twin spacecraft being built and tested at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., are about to enter a challenging series of...
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In The Loop: RBSP Passes Acoustic Testing
The Radiation Belt Storm Probe satellites recently underwent successful acoustic testing at the center of a tower of special loudspeakers.
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In The Loop: Smooth Swinging: Solar Panel Deployment Testing Success
NASA's twin RBSP satellites will depend on their solar panels for power during their two-year orbit of Earth; recent tests made sure they would deploy correctly.
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In The Loop: The Mysteries of the Radiation Belts: NASA Helps Researchers See...
Filled with electrons and energetic charged particles, Earth's Van Allen radiation belts swell and shrink in response to incoming solar energy, but no one is quite sure how.
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It's All in the Swing: RBSP Undergoes Magnetic Swing Test
NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), twin spacecraft being built and tested at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., are about to enter a challenging series of...
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In The Loop: RBSP Enters Thermal Vacuum Testing
On Feb. 21, NASA's twin RBSP satellites were carefully raised and sealed into two identical thermal vacuum testing chambers.
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In The Loop: Loading RBSP Into Thermal Vacuum Testing
This one-minute video, taken on Feb. 21, is a compressed version of the loading of NASA's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probe satellites into two identical thermal vacuum testing chambers.
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Time Traveling: Simulation Creates '10 Days in the Life' of RBSP, circa 2013
With the integration and testing of NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes complete, and the twin spacecraft sealed within thermal vacuum testing chambers for six weeks of rigorous space environment...
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RBSP Completes Thermal Vacuum Testing
NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes have completed their thermal vacuum testing today, Tuesday April 3, one day earlier than planned. Thermal vacuum testing, which includes the cycling of temperatures...
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April 25, 2012: New launch date for RBSP
As NASA's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probe spacecraft prepare to leave APL for the Kennedy Space Center, a new launch date of Thursday, August 23, 2012 has been announced.
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April 16, 2012: New NASA videos explain "Mysteries of the Sun"
NASA has just released five new videos that look at the Sun's influence throughout the solar system and its connection to the Earth and the Earth's extended space environment-key areas of exploration...
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April 26, 2012: Getting Ready For Kennedy
NASA's twin RBSP spacecraft are getting ready for the voyage from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory to the Kennedy Space Center, scheduled for May 1.
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NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes Arrive at Kennedy Space Center
The twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) safely arrived at 7:54 a.m. EDT on May 1 at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., where they are scheduled for an August 23 launch to begin their mission to study...
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In the Loop: RBSP makes its Florida debut
NASA's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes have been removed from the protective containers that carried them safely to the Kennedy Space Center.
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