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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Jun 10 2009, 04:11 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10226 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Ted - very nice!
Pradeep - we should perhaps qualify your comment - the only country with an operating spacecraft at the Moon now. Japan's Ouna (Vstar) subsatellite is still orbiting. And actually so is Luna 10, the first spacecraft ever put into lunar orbit, but high enough that it's thought to be in orbit still. There was an article in - I think - Air and Space - a few years ago which identified four older orbiters thought to be still in orbit - must try to find it!... Explorer 49 might have been one of the others. Hagoromo, Japan's first orbiter, is another. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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