Stardust-NExT, Revisiting Tempel 1 |
Stardust-NExT, Revisiting Tempel 1 |
Dec 28 2010, 01:46 PM
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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 new thread on Stardust's flyby of Tempel 1, the first time a comet receives a second visit from a spacecraft one perihelion later.
There was an interesting story about this on Spaceflight now recently http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1012/23stardustnext/ note that the flyby will be around 23.30 eastern time on 14 February, so thinking in GMT it will not happen on Valentine's day. Stardust should have started imaging Tempel 1 twice weekly in mid-December, but there is nothing yet on the mission site http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html see also http://stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/m...tatus10_q4.html for updates on the mission status |
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Jan 7 2011, 12:49 PM
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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 |
a new status update. stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/mission_status11_q1.html
it turns out the comet is still too faint to be visible in OpNav images |
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Jan 7 2011, 04:45 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 16-June 10 Member No.: 5375 |
a new status update. stardustnext.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/mission_status11_q1.html it turns out the comet is still too faint to be visible in OpNav images And it says they have lower fuel reserves than expected. I'm really excited about this encounter. It also mentioned the cold boot due to the "MEEB" restored the memory to its factory default. Does this mean they lost any patches or updates to the memory or memory management that were uploaded to the craft since launch? CJSF -------------------- Two years ago moved from my town
I was looking up past the city lights But the city lights got in my way See the constellation ride across the sky No cigar, no lady on his arm Just a guy made of dots and lines -from "See The Constellation" by They Might Be Giants |
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