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Sep 27 2007, 12:31 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 100 Joined: 11-October 04 From: Oxford, UK (Glasgow by birth) Member No.: 101 |
Pushing out of Earth orbit now...........
-------------------- "There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary code, and those who don't."
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Jan 14 2009, 11:26 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 340 Joined: 11-April 08 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 4093 |
According to the Dawn ops team, the best estimate of the closest approach to Mars is February 17 at 16:28:55 PST +/- 35 seconds (Spacecraft Event Time). They will continue to refine the time over the coming weeks, with the principal uncertainty being the effect of RCS activity to desaturate reaction wheels. Also there will be no high resolution images of Mars during closest approach, and no observations of Mars are possible whilst Dawn approaches Mars because the Sun is at too close an angle to Mars. After all, the Mars flyby is just a means to reach Vesta, and would not have been in the flight plan had the mission launched earlier.
EDIT: The source of the above information was provided by Marc Rayman, Chief Engineer of the Dawn mission. -------------------- |
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