KAGUYA lunar explorer (aka SELENE) |
KAGUYA lunar explorer (aka SELENE) |
 Jun 6 2007, 08:29 PM
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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 5 2007, 05:46 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 52 Joined: 24-November 05 From: Tokyo Member No.: 571 |
I am pleased to share the success of LOI with you all
 QUOTE (SpaceListener @ Oct 4 2007, 10:17 PM)  At the beginning, JAXA says that Kaguya is mainly as an experimental spacecraft to prove new technologies.. Kaguya is a scientific mission rather than technological one, but of course it includes lots of experimental elements for new technologies. FYI, Japan once had an experimental lunar probe, Hiten (MUSES-A), launched in 1990 to prove new technologies. The mission included LOI, successive swing-by navigation, aero-breaking by earth atmosphere, daughter satellite deployment, orbit determination using optical navigation, observation of space dusts around Lagrange points, and so on. I think Kaguya's LOI was supported by techniques acquired in Hiten mission. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiten http://www.isas.ac.jp/j/isasnews/backnumbe...ISASnews154.pdf (mainly in Japanese, but including English articles and many figures) We've had two unfortunate experiences in deploying of daughter satellites, Hagoromo from Hiten and MINERVA from Hayabusa  But I hope we'll get "the third time lucky" in upcoming deployment of VRAD and relay satellites
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 Oct 5 2007, 07:22 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: 12-November 06 Member No.: 1354 |
QUOTE (nop @ Oct 5 2007, 10:46 AM) I am pleased to share the success of LOI with you all Hoorah!  Now you're rolling! 
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Rakhir KAGUYA lunar explorer (aka SELENE) Jun 6 2007, 08:29 PM
Stephen QUOTE (Rakhir @ Jun 7 2007, 06:29 AM) SEL... Jun 7 2007, 02:01 AM AlexBlackwell Kaguya Approaches Launch
By Yasunori Matogawa
Jun... Jun 18 2007, 08:14 PM Zvezdichko How are they going to insert this into polar orbit... Jun 25 2007, 03:28 PM mchan The Moon's gravity can be used to effect the p... Jun 26 2007, 04:20 AM spdf Seems like the new launch date is September 13. So... Jul 28 2007, 10:49 PM elakdawalla Is there a source somewhere on the Internet for th... Jul 29 2007, 01:32 AM spdf sorry I forgot:
for the September 13 date:
http://... Jul 29 2007, 03:35 AM nop http://msdb.honeywell-tsi.com/missioninfo....n=SEL... Jul 30 2007, 11:51 AM monitorlizard The nice thing about lunar missions is that if you... Jul 31 2007, 08:30 AM elakdawalla Lots of photos of Kaguya being prepped for launch:... Sep 11 2007, 05:09 AM GravityWaves It will be delayed by a day due to bad weather, ne... Sep 11 2007, 10:10 AM punkboi A little more than 5 hours before launch... Godspe... Sep 13 2007, 07:48 PM Zvezdichko Rock the Moon and roll to Mars
This message may ... Sep 13 2007, 08:35 PM nprev I don't suppose anyone knows of a live link fo... Sep 13 2007, 11:36 PM lyford http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/live/index_e.html... Sep 13 2007, 11:39 PM
nprev ...thanks, Ly, and wouldn't you know it: I jus... Sep 13 2007, 11:48 PM
nop QUOTE (lyford @ Sep 14 2007, 08:39 AM) No... Sep 14 2007, 03:47 PM elakdawalla It's up! I blogged what I could from the ... Sep 14 2007, 01:42 AM Airbag 10:20 PM EDT: Payload separation!
Airbag Sep 14 2007, 02:19 AM elakdawalla ...and that's it for the commentary. Nothing ... Sep 14 2007, 02:34 AM Airbag Got to love that low-tech approach to illustrating... Sep 14 2007, 02:44 AM elakdawalla That was pretty funny. It was a bit Python-esque ... Sep 14 2007, 02:54 AM lyford Anybody know what the little orange bobbing head g... Sep 14 2007, 04:05 AM Subaru QUOTE (lyford @ Sep 14 2007, 01:05 PM) [i... Sep 14 2007, 08:15 AM Zvezdichko When are these two orbits going to be completed an... Sep 14 2007, 09:33 AM Toma B Is there a replay of that spectacular launch somew... Sep 14 2007, 10:05 AM Zvezdichko Yes, it's available on nasaspaceflight.com Sep 14 2007, 10:14 AM Pedro_Sondas Hi!
This is the video of the JAXA program for... Sep 14 2007, 10:22 AM SpaceListener Will Kaguya arrive at Moon within 3 days? Haven... Sep 14 2007, 02:05 PM nop QUOTE (SpaceListener @ Sep 14 2007, 11:05... Sep 14 2007, 04:08 PM jabe from Spaceflightnow article
QUOTE SELENE will fi... Sep 14 2007, 03:18 PM SpaceListener Thanks Nop for good detail.
I see that Kaguya wi... Sep 14 2007, 04:15 PM Zvezdichko QUOTE (SpaceListener @ Sep 14 2007, 04:15... Sep 15 2007, 06:49 AM lyford thanks nop and subaru for the inside scoop -
and ... Sep 14 2007, 05:09 PM punkboi QUOTE Will Kaguya arrive at Moon within 3 days? Ha... Sep 14 2007, 05:24 PM punkboi HIGH GAIN ANTENNA DEPLOYMENT (In-flight image take... Sep 15 2007, 04:17 AM ugordan I expect the images (and HDTV movies) of such scen... Sep 15 2007, 03:26 PM Zvezdichko Any news on the first manuevre? Sep 16 2007, 08:17 AM nop QUOTE (Zvezdichko @ Sep 16 2007, 05:17 PM... Sep 16 2007, 02:14 PM punkboi Where is Kaguya? "It is in the position of p... Sep 17 2007, 05:38 AM volcanopele nop, do you know if Kaguya will acquire approach i... Sep 17 2007, 06:08 AM nop QUOTE (volcanopele @ Sep 17 2007, 03:08 P... Sep 17 2007, 02:12 PM Phil Stooke Do we have any information about end of mission sc... Sep 17 2007, 08:41 PM ugordan QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Sep 17 2007, 10:41 P... Sep 17 2007, 08:58 PM PhilHorzempa We are now about 5 days away from LOI for Kaguya. ... Sep 28 2007, 04:42 PM jabe QUOTE (PhilHorzempa @ Sep 28 2007, 04:42 ... Sep 29 2007, 12:43 AM nprev ...terrific sentiment. I hope it's true. Sep 28 2007, 05:02 PM SpaceListener Would like to know about how fast will Kaguya be a... Sep 28 2007, 08:11 PM Phil Stooke http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/index_e.html
Orb... Sep 29 2007, 02:27 PM cndwrld Pronouncing it
I was at the IAC conference in Hyd... Oct 1 2007, 07:41 AM SkyeLab Quote:
"Apparently, ka-GU-ya means 'furni... Oct 1 2007, 07:52 AM nop Kaguya is carrying a high-definition TV camera as ... Oct 1 2007, 09:00 AM djellison Thanks for the heads up on that - great stuff... Oct 1 2007, 09:29 AM ustrax Wow! That looks so promising! Oct 1 2007, 10:57 AM ugordan Is that a colorized image or an actual color one? ... Oct 1 2007, 11:14 AM dvandorn It's early spring in South America. There... Oct 1 2007, 03:22 PM remcook I have no idea about the specs, but maybe the colo... Oct 1 2007, 04:00 PM punkboi Awesome photo, nop... Can't wait to see HDTV i... Oct 1 2007, 06:04 PM ugordan After taking a look at the channels, it is probabl... Oct 1 2007, 06:13 PM SpaceListener According to JAXA report is that Kaguya is now hea... Oct 1 2007, 06:24 PM punkboi I presume they mean October 4, Japan Time (as in t... Oct 1 2007, 07:28 PM nop Kaguya has a monitoring camera for cheking the sol... Oct 2 2007, 09:36 AM nop And now the movie has been released.
http://jda.ja... Oct 2 2007, 11:46 AM centsworth_II QUOTE (nop @ Oct 2 2007, 07:46 AM) The ch... Oct 2 2007, 03:20 PM ugordan Earth's rotation dictates features should be a... Oct 2 2007, 03:29 PM centsworth_II QUOTE (ugordan @ Oct 2 2007, 11:29 AM) Ea... Oct 2 2007, 04:07 PM elakdawalla Yeah, QT doesn't work for me either. I wish t... Oct 2 2007, 04:46 PM nop QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Oct 3 2007, 01:46 AM... Oct 3 2007, 02:45 AM nprev Cool cool cool, nop!!! Been much mor... Oct 3 2007, 04:26 AM punkboi Kaguya should be in lunar orbit about 13 hours aft... Oct 3 2007, 08:24 AM djellison Whaddayaknow... it IS round. Oct 3 2007, 08:51 AM punkboi QUOTE (djellison @ Oct 3 2007, 01:51 AM) ... Oct 3 2007, 05:29 PM Norm Hartnett QUOTE (punkboi @ Oct 3 2007, 10:29 AM) JA... Oct 4 2007, 02:51 AM punkboi QUOTE (Norm Hartnett @ Oct 3 2007, 07:51 ... Oct 4 2007, 05:34 AM elakdawalla Thank you very much for your posts and translation... Oct 3 2007, 04:35 PM Phil Stooke "At 5:55 a.m. on Thursday, a small engine was... Oct 4 2007, 01:07 PM jabe looks like they were successful..see spaceflightn... Oct 4 2007, 06:36 PM Norm Hartnett QUOTE (SpaceListener @ Oct 4 2007, 06:17 ... Oct 4 2007, 08:40 PM SpaceListener QUOTE (Norm Hartnett @ Oct 4 2007, 03:40 ... Oct 5 2007, 01:42 AM jabe press release is up. Oct 5 2007, 11:19 AM Zvezdichko I wonder when the first images will be published Oct 6 2007, 03:58 PM nop Rstar was successfully separated.
http://www.jaxa.... Oct 9 2007, 08:34 AM SpaceListener A new update from Kaguya. It has already performed... Oct 7 2007, 01:32 AM jabe QUOTE (SpaceListener @ Oct 7 2007, 01:32 ... Oct 7 2007, 02:10 AM rlorenz QUOTE (jabe @ Oct 6 2007, 10:10 PM) Effic... Oct 9 2007, 11:43 AM Phil Stooke The Relay satellite "Rstar" will be rele... Oct 9 2007, 02:07 AM SkyeLab Nice update and a couple of spacecraft moonshots:
... Oct 9 2007, 09:04 AM djellison All credit to JAXA - you guys know how to make thi... Oct 9 2007, 09:30 AM nop FYI, I hope this mapping image will help you figur... Oct 9 2007, 01:17 PM ugordan QUOTE (nop @ Oct 9 2007, 03:17 PM) FYI, I... Oct 9 2007, 01:29 PM kenny Many congratulations to JAXA after the disappointm... Oct 9 2007, 06:58 PM SpaceListener KAGUYA (SELENE) Lunar Orbit Adjustment Maneuver (L... Oct 10 2007, 04:02 PM Phil Stooke VRAD (Vstar) separation coming up...
http://www.... Oct 12 2007, 01:21 AM kenny .... and the VRAD satellite has departed, now-nam... Oct 12 2007, 12:40 PM Phil Stooke Getting there...
http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13... Oct 19 2007, 02:33 AM Phil Stooke Here's the latest - images from the monitoring... Oct 21 2007, 02:56 AM |
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