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Orlin Denkov
Posted on: Jul 18 2007, 03:28 PM


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The last update by Marc Rayman, apparently, first on Space Daily:
Stand Down At Dawn Launch Pad
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Orlin Denkov
Posted on: Jun 26 2007, 06:30 PM


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QUOTE (Analyst @ Jun 26 2007, 08:13 PM) *
Do you know the reason for the delay from June 20 to June 30? Delta stacking problems caused the delay from June 30 to July 7. But what has been the reason for the first delay?

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http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.asp

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Completion of Additional Testing and New Launch Date
April 2 - 6, 2007
<...> To accommodate a change in the schedule for assembling the components of Dawn's Delta II launch vehicle, the launch date is shifted 10 days to June 30. The change will have no effect on mission objectives or science.
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Orlin Denkov
Posted on: Mar 24 2006, 08:44 AM


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However, NASA Watch is the only source of any information about the development. Don't we (UMSF) have our own reliable and well informed source of "inner information"? smile.gif
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Orlin Denkov
Posted on: Mar 20 2006, 06:40 AM


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QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Feb 21 2006, 06:33 AM) *
It's possible that they may be hoping to fly Stardust by none other than Tempel 1, at its next perihelion -- which turns out to be in Feb. 2011! Such comparative studies of it by two spacecraft with different instruments -- perhaps even including an attempt by Stardust to photograph the Deep Impact crater -- would obviously be useful.

In the light of today's anouncement - I'm absolutely amazed from that precise supposition, made two months ago smile.gif
I was reading carefully the article at the AviationNow, but I didn't uderstand the reasons for such a secrecy.
In any case it would be very important new target. Let's hope that they'll find the budget needed for the extansion of the Stardust mission.
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Orlin Denkov
Posted on: Mar 17 2006, 07:23 AM


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If we really can do something (calls, or whatever else) - we really must do it smile.gif
Dawn have many and many supporters and deserve to fly - for our pleasure, and for the science achievments smile.gif
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Orlin Denkov
Posted on: Mar 16 2006, 12:32 PM


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Interresting details in an Associated Press article: NASA reviews canceled asteroid mission
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The review, headed by NASA Associate Administrator Rex Geveden, will take into account JPL's new findings and the results from an independent team dispatched to evaluate the mission. A decision was expected as early as the end of the month. NASA headquarters declined to say what the new evidence was and refused to make Geveden available for an interview.

Is that "new evidence" the one which was mentionned in the Planetary Society blog?
I really hope that the cancelation will be revised and Dawn will fly at last...
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Orlin Denkov
Posted on: Jan 20 2006, 12:25 AM


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Didn't he said in the press conference that all the calculations of the tour dates etc are already done? Probably we will see them here soon.
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Posted on: Jan 20 2006, 12:13 AM


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I would like also to congratulate Dr Stern. It has been amazing.
And really hope that you won't leave us and the forum smile.gif
Our interest on NH, Pluto, KBO is persistent smile.gif smile.gif
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Posted on: Jan 9 2006, 07:13 AM


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A very good article in Spaceflight Now - Probe finally nears launch on mission of pure exploration
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"What could be more exciting than exploring the edge of the solar system? This whole undiscovered terrority -- the Kuiper Belt -- there is nothing like it. We didn't know it existed when you and I were children. It is the frontier, and that is what the space program is about," says Stern.

Very well said!
Also in SpaceRef - Guarded by Nuclear Protection Teams, U.S. to Launch Fastest Spacecraft...
And very interresting article in AviationNow - New Horizons Pluto Mission: A Tour De Force of Rocketry, Technology
8 days left! smile.gif
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Posted on: Jan 1 2006, 06:30 PM


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Happy New Year to all
It would be a great beginning of the year with a perfect and on time launch of New Horizons! Good luck, NH smile.gif
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Posted on: Dec 22 2005, 07:10 AM


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QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Dec 22 2005, 05:36 AM)
Something that would
have meant something and been of use to a future discoverer.
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That future dscoverer would be a man, human being or an umnanned spacecraft from our Earth. I'm sure that in 100 or 200 or more years, sooner or later, the mankind would be able to travel enough fast in space and will recover every one of all Pioneers, Voyagers, New Horizons, Stardust and all wich will following them outside the Solar System, bring them back on Earth and put them in a Space museum smile.gif There also would be every surviving lander on the other planets and satelites smile.gif Isn't that the logic of the developpement of the human race? What today is a great achievement, tomorrow is a history, and after tomorrow is archeology and artifacts for the museums smile.gif
Good luck for the New Horizons and all the team behind him (and so for all of us). Congratulations personally to Dr Stern for his efforts throughout many years to make all this real and thanks for the participation in this part of the forum.
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Posted on: Dec 14 2005, 07:04 AM


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I tried to ask, but I got no answer smile.gif
QUOTE (Orlin @ Dec 8 2005, 10:40 AM)
When is it expected the final decision of the White house about the launch?
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Perhaps, it's a pure formality, but I think it is a decisive one smile.gif
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When is it expected the final decision of the White house about the launch?
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Posted on: Nov 29 2005, 10:41 PM


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QUOTE
Probe returning to Earth after asteroid landing
Alok Jha
Monday November 28, 2005
The Japanese space probe Hayabusa began its journey home yesterday after becoming the first spacecraft to successfully land on an asteroid and collect samples.

Guardian Unlimited

What can we say about the level of credibility of the information provided above. huh.gif
I wish it would be true... Hope that troubles are surmountable.
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Posted on: Nov 28 2005, 03:55 PM


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In the title of this thread isn't it Enceladus that should be written tongue.gif
edit: oop, already correct, sorry smile.gif
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I also learned about this site from spacedayly.com when they cited unmanned spacefliht as a source for the news that Opportunity has stucked in the sands and that was the first information about that. Since then - that was back in april - I visit every day the forum. I do not feel myself enough competent (my professional activity is very very far from the science) to participate in the discussion, but I appreciate the level and have spent many hours enjoying the readings. It's simply great! smile.gif
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