Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter |
Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter |
Mar 13 2010, 11:29 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
I thought it was time to start a separate thread on this mission, launching soon
some good medium-resolution images of the spacecraft are available on JAXA digital archives http://jda.jaxa.jp/jda/p3_e.php?time=N&...mp;mission=4066 |
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Dec 8 2010, 02:33 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 753 Joined: 23-October 04 From: Greensboro, NC USA Member No.: 103 |
Given JAXA's success with Hayabusa, I wouldn't be surprised that in the intervening 6-7 years, the engineers reconfigure Akatsuki into a Venus atmosphere probe, sample the Venusian atmosphere, arrange a rendezvous with the solar sail, and use it to return the sample to Earth!
It is an extraordinarily complex business. The ratio of all nations' failed interplanetary probes to the number of successful ones is still quite high, despite 50 years of experience. We have been spoiled by those few probes that have worked and then continued on into extended missions. -------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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