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Pushing out of Earth orbit now...........
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I have corrected the event times (from ET to UTC) and added whatever I could extract from the Dawn journal to come up with the following timeline for the realtime simulation:
CODE 13 Feb 05:01:13 Enters Mars Hillsphere
17 Feb 13:01:33 Gravitational attraction of Mars exceeds that of the Sun 17 Feb 17:47 Visible and infrared mapping spectrometers switched on 17 Feb 21:21 Primary science camera switched on 17 Feb 21:57 Slew to Mars observation attitude. Loss of main antenna signal. 17 Feb 22:26:58 Deimos closest approach (16,031 km) 17 Feb 23:53:47 Phobos closest approach (8,014 km) 18 Feb 00:28:00 Mars Flyby. Altitude 549 km 18 Feb 11:53:30 Gravitational attraction of the Sun exceeds that of Mars 19 Feb 11:09 Slew to point main antenna to Earth 20 Feb 15:48 Slew to Mars observation attitude to practice Vesta arrival. 20 Feb 19:28 Slew to point main antenna to Earth. End of Mars flyby observations. 22 Feb 23:51:20 Exits Mars Hillsphere -------------------- |
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