KAGUYA lunar explorer (aka SELENE) |
KAGUYA lunar explorer (aka SELENE) |
Jun 6 2007, 08:29 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 370 Joined: 12-September 05 From: France Member No.: 495 |
SELENE has now a nickname : KAGUYA.
http://www.jaxa.jp/topics/2007/06_e.html Edit : And Emily searched for the origin of the name http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000996/ |
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Oct 4 2007, 01:17 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 279 Joined: 19-August 07 Member No.: 3299 |
At the beginning, JAXA says that Kaguya is mainly as an experimental spacecraft to prove new technologies.. Thus, I presume that this is one of the low-profile public relations' reasons since this kind of mission has high risk of success. Hope, that all new technologies would run fine after many past setback lessons.
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Oct 4 2007, 06:36 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 163 Joined: 16-March 05 From: Oakville, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 201 |
looks like they were successful..see spaceflightnow.com article
edit:lets hope jaxa has an official update soon!! |
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