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Jul 15 2009, 03:08 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 87 Joined: 9-November 07 Member No.: 3958 |
While we're waiting for Those Pictures, here are a couple of shots of LCROSS from our campus observatory last night (0221, 027 UT on 15 July). 4 minute exposures tracking expected motion from the Horizons ephemeris, within 20 degrees of the southern horizon and fighting summertime haze as well as city lights. I wanted to catch it before its inclined orbit takes it too far south, after which it spends a week or so as a predawn object. The range was about 563,000 km, and the Centaur is no bigger than a CSM/LM combination, so this is a more difficult target than spotting an Apollo enroute was. (On the other hand, nobody had CCD imagers in 1969).
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Sep 5 2009, 11:37 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Nice memo to the LCROSS team and well deserved.
I am sure that they know how much effort the DSN put in also providing continuous coverage for LCROSS. Also, how other missions made way in the schedule for them. On UMSF we get to see the pretty pictures and data, but the effort that goes in to getting this stuff for us is incredible. I've watched our comms teams during spacecraft emergencies and I can tell you it's incredible to watch so many people come together to solve sometimes seemingly unsolvable problems and all in real-time (and even two-way light travel time!). I'm going to have to write a book one day about all the backroom happenings |
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