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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May 26 2009, 03:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 279 Joined: 19-August 07 Member No.: 3299 |
It would be wonderful if Kaguya is able to activate the TV camera during its last orbits before the impact. The movie image would be thrilling.
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May 27 2009, 10:31 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 157 Joined: 22-May 09 From: Ireland Member No.: 4792 |
It would be wonderful if Kaguya is able to activate the TV camera during its last orbits before the impact. The movie image would be thrilling. It would be nice to see some video coverage of the crash, however, will the orbiter have enough power to do so by June 10, and if so, which of the cameras -- TC (Terrain Camera) and the HDTV (High Definition TeleVision) -- would/could be used? What about the VRAD satellite, OUNA, -- is there any intention to crash that also? The Relay satellite, OKINA, was intentionally crashed last February, so I'm assuming the same will happen with OUNA, whose elliptical orbit 100 x 800 km, I think, is lower than was OKINA's (the two satellites working together were used for gravitational measurements). John http://www.moonposter.ie |
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