Dawn's first orbit, including RC3, March 6, 2015- June 15, 2015 |
Dawn's first orbit, including RC3, March 6, 2015- June 15, 2015 |
Mar 6 2015, 03:23 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 206 Joined: 14-April 06 From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 745 |
Dawn is now officially in orbit around (1) Ceres!
Congratulations, NASA. Nice images of crescent Ceres. NASA Spacecraft Becomes First to Orbit a Dwarf Planet |
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Mar 6 2015, 04:29 PM
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I thought it was time for a new thread, now that Dawn's in its first orbit. We can look forward to a couple more op navs, on April 10 and 14, and then RC3 later in the month. Use the previous thread for up to Op Nav 5; let's use this thread for Op Navs 6 and 7 and RC3 and then we'll split again once Dawn reaches its first survey orbit.
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Mar 7 2015, 12:01 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 207 Joined: 6-March 07 From: houston, texas Member No.: 1828 |
I thought it was time for a new thread, now that Dawn's in its first orbit. We can look forward to a couple more op navs, on April 10 and 14, and then RC3 later in the month. Use the previous thread for up to Op Nav 5; let's use this thread for Op Navs 6 and 7 and RC3 and then we'll split again once Dawn reaches its first survey orbit. thanks emily! i noticed in a prior thread that it said mapping starts in July. thats a bit of a misnomer as mapping starts in Survey Orbit in May (and one can count RC3 as a global map, at about 1.5 km resolution, which is comparable to much of Voyager at Saturn.) wows! -------------------- Dr. Paul Schenk, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston TX
http://stereomoons.blogspot.com; http://www.youtube.com/galsat400; http://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/schenk/ |
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Mar 7 2015, 09:28 AM
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What should nonetheless be correct is that a new mapping phase starts in July, namely HAMO; and that this is still the month New Horizon zooms past Pluto.
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Mar 8 2015, 12:36 AM
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Mar 8 2015, 04:29 AM
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From http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/march/nasa-...ly-enter-orbit/ :
QUOTE NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST today [Friday] to discuss the historic arrival of the agency’s Dawn spacecraft at the dwarf planet Ceres. ... Participants in the teleconference will be: - Jim Green, director, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington - Carol Raymond, Dawn mission deputy principal investigator, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California The teleconference will be streamed live on NASA’s website, at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio Does anyone know if a recording of this telecon exists? Normally, at the end of a NASA telecon they offer a number that you can call into to hear it again -- inexplicably, they only offer that number DURING the call itself. Also, JPL will sometimes take the audio and make a video out of it (synced with slides if there are any) and upload to the Ustream or Youtube account. Or was there absolutely nothing of interest said during the telecon, just the usual recapping of what's happened? Thanks! |
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Mar 8 2015, 02:27 PM
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Mar 8 2015, 08:49 PM
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Thanks but that's the PREVIEW briefing, that aired on NASA TV on Monday. I'm talking about the teleconference (media phone call) from Friday. |
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Mar 9 2015, 03:58 PM
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Searched for it on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk0Cr0Z13hc Edit: finally had a chance to listen to it - nothing new was said, really. |
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Mar 9 2015, 11:03 PM
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Also the time when the fireworks on 67P are expected to really start. And Voyager 2 might break out into interstellar space at about the same time also. The values for the interstellar >70 MeV protons have been slowly climbing to the same value as for V2 - though if the current trend holds it might happen a few months later. |
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Mar 10 2015, 02:32 AM
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Searched for it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk0Cr0Z13hc Edit: finally had a chance to listen to it - nothing new was said, really. THANK YOU!!! |
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Mar 11 2015, 01:53 PM
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Mar 11 2015, 03:48 PM
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Mar 12 2015, 02:44 AM
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Mar 12 2015, 08:02 AM
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Oh my, talk about making the familiar unusual.... -------------------- |
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