Thought I'd kick off a thread just for this.

Todays program is here
http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/679/266/1/1/
Ed and Fergus from CU Spaceflight are on at 1440

Tomorrow
http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/679/266/1/2/
I'm on at 1120

Live streaming is available - http://batc.tv/ch_live.php (and is up now)

Enjoy.

They do.

I guess in the category of 'turn back to go somewhere' - the traverse of the northern rim of Victoria, only to enter at the very point we arrived must count But there was a very good reason for that.

Remember - JPL Ustream event about getting Spirit out - tonight at 11pm UK, (so two hours time from now)

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasajpl

I can well understand why we're going to have a look. Not only does it look different to all the surrounding rock - it's also, I'd guess, the single largest rock not in a crater that Opportunity has ever seen.

Also shows how damn good the amateurs have got using the webcam techniques.

Two points - one is the "Friend or Foe" nature of of Jupiter- google that exact phrase for the research, it's very interesting.

Secondly - twice I've seen people cite Comet impact rates.

Who says this is a comet? Could have been an asteroid. If it's one 2km Comet / 250yrs, then what does the statistical distribution tell us for, say, 100m sized objects? 10x more frequent? 100x?

Brilliant - I suggested they do that after the last Ustreamage

I'm from England, and nor do I.

Making a thread to move stuff to.

Whoops

http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/679/266/1/2/

I ended up on the schedule Something of a call to arms for the Amsat community to do the outreach that European scientists and STFC (H1'09 outreach funding cut by 50% for science in society projects) refuses to.

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I'm wondering if the fact that Hubble is still in a recomissioning phase means that maybe, quick turnaround response for an orbit or two won't be too hard. I hope Damian Peach has had a look at it

Another animation just for fun.

http://vimeo.com/5666678
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OQWxe6UhNg

Put it full-screen, put your laptop on the floor, and watch standing up

I run it on XP64 - no problems at all.

A combination of shuffling astronauts and dragged met.

No. These thumbnails are at full resolution. We have to wait for the spacecraft to get into its final orbit before we go from these 1.2-ish m/pixel images to 50cm/pixel.

I was expecting a bit better. You can see the seismometer's western solar array just about. It's not map-projected, and calibration hasn't kicked in to fix that interlacing-look to the pictures.

MUCH better is to come - that's for sure.

This is roughly with the same illumination.

Oh - ok - you were counting ALL the pixels. Anyway - I started a new LRO thread for Apollo sites - we'll need it in about an hour or two hopefully

Thought this deserved a new thread- we can't talk about EVERY LRO target in the one thread

I made a mistake in this one - I didn't include the thruster plume guards. My MER/MPF simulation for HiRISE seemed to come out about right - so fingers crossed that this will be there or there abouts as well. Still in a comissioning phase, something of a slant angle - I'd expect approx 1.5m/pixel if it's at the 120km figure mentioned earlier.

The LEM is approx 4.5 metres across. At 1.2m/pixel - that's 3-4 pixels across, a total of perhaps 16 pixels of LEM.

Assuming a height of 4 meters ( which is generous) - and illumination at 10 degrees - the shadow will be another 17 or so pixels long.

Doug

Subject continued here

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...20&start=20

Not an official video - but quite a good screen-grab-of-stream-to-youtube of the launch - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfdk_VZMjQI

I got one ISS pass. One STS scrub, no STS/ET flyover, SpaceX webcase gave no hint of actually starting, second ISS flyover was clouded out. So I went to bed.

VERY pleased for SpaceX

It can get a bit tedious though.

Delay related posts moved to MSL reasons for delay thread.