Mercury Flyby 1 |
Mercury Flyby 1 |
Dec 5 2007, 06:47 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 258 Joined: 22-December 06 Member No.: 1503 |
40 days and counting. The long wait is almost over!
I wonder whether we will get enough data to test new simulation theories like this one. http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg19...solar-wind.html What do you expect from this first flyby? |
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Jan 16 2008, 10:37 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
'n1ckdrake' - I think Astro0 meant 25 to 30 Kilobytes per hour.
Correct Kilobytes. Allowing for glitches, around 7 hours of downlink time. A few repeat passes through the DSN may be needed to get everything cleanly. The tracking pass at the Canberra DSN finished about an hour ago, and went very well from our point of view. I don't have any figures as to the total of data received, that will be up to the mission teams to let us know. Still even with this one new image, it has kept lots of people on UMSF very busy...can't wait to see the other 1,212 images. Enjoy Astro0 |
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Jan 16 2008, 11:00 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 568 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Silesia Member No.: 299 |
'n1ckdrake' - I think Astro0 meant 25 to 30 Kilobytes per hour. Correct Kilobytes. 25-30 Kilobytes per hour? Are you sure? Rather 25-30 Kilobytes per second. -------------------- Free software for planetary science (including Cassini Image Viewer).
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/marinerall.html |
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Jan 16 2008, 11:08 AM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2251 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
25-30 kilobits per second (kbps) seems likely. Downlink bandwidth is usually given as kbps and 25-30 kbps is comparable to various inner solar system spacecraft. It would be nice to know for sure the correct value though.
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Jan 16 2008, 11:12 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Even 25 kbps sounds like a rather low bandwidth for inner solar system standards. Granted, MESSENGER doesn't use a dish antenna, but still - Cassini can get over 100 kbps from 9 AU away.
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Jan 16 2008, 11:28 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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