MESSENGER ARRIVES, Mercury Orbit Insertion |
MESSENGER ARRIVES, Mercury Orbit Insertion |
 Mar 17 2011, 05:29 AM
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Less than 20 hours now until the MESSENGER spacecraft fires its engine to enter orbit at Mercury.
Live Webcast March 17th – broadcast starts at 0030 UTC. Follow the progress: http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/mer_orbit.html. There will be commentary on the mission, real-time coverage of the maneuver, animation of what the spacecraft is doing, a view of the carrier’s Doppler as they receive it, and live video from MESSENGER Mission Operations. Remember that the Canberra DSN is providing two-way communication with MESSENGER  We'll be using both DSS43 (70-metre) and DSS34 (34-metre) antennas. Good luck to the team at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). |
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Mar 18 2011, 01:59 AM
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unmanned spacecraft in orbit.. firsts..
1966 Luna 10 Moon 1971 Mariner 9 Mars 1975 Venera 8 Venus Venera 9 was the first Venus orbiter. Venera 8 was a lander with a flyby bus. 1995 Galileo Jupiter 2004 Cassini Saturn 2011 Messenger Mercury Lived through all of them.... HOW SWEET IT IS! i ate peanuts Congrats team! |
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Mar 18 2011, 06:22 AM
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QUOTE (belleraphon1 @ Mar 18 2011, 02:59 AM)  unmanned spacecraft in orbit.. firsts.. you forgot poor Eros... |
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Astro0 MESSENGER ARRIVES Mar 17 2011, 05:29 AM
nprev Aim your dishes well, Astro0, and may no passing b... Mar 17 2011, 06:19 AM Explorer1 Mercury is a disk already in the 'where is MES... Mar 17 2011, 06:39 AM dmuller 7.9 billion kilometers just to get there. That mak... Mar 17 2011, 12:15 PM
B Bernatchez QUOTE (dmuller @ Mar 17 2011, 07:15 AM) 7... Mar 17 2011, 10:35 PM Sunspot I can't get "Mars" Orbit Insertion (... Mar 17 2011, 02:25 PM Decepticon Is there a way to listen to MOI via my cell phone?... Mar 17 2011, 07:24 PM akuo Is it so that there is no following of the MOI on ... Mar 17 2011, 07:55 PM Gsnorgathon Since this mission's run by JHUAPL and not JPL... Mar 17 2011, 10:24 PM djellison It's in Eyes on the Solar System as well - com... Mar 17 2011, 11:36 PM volcanopele Good to know! I tried getting MESSENGER to wo... Mar 17 2011, 11:37 PM MahFL Hello everyone.
Pretty exciting ! Mar 18 2011, 12:30 AM ZLD QUOTE It's in Eyes on the Solar System as well... Mar 18 2011, 12:31 AM MarkG I like the Irish music in the background of some o... Mar 18 2011, 12:43 AM Explorer1 Start of burn confirmed, looking at Doppler. Mar 18 2011, 12:56 AM pjam Messenger is confirmed to be in orbit around Mercu... Mar 18 2011, 01:59 AM Bjorn Jonsson "Thruster firing, everything looking just per... Mar 18 2011, 12:57 AM Astro0 Gotta say that I'm enjoying the JHU/APL broadc... Mar 18 2011, 01:00 AM DFinfrock Emily has a great Twitter feed going, if you can... Mar 18 2011, 01:04 AM Hungry4info MESSENGER is in orbit of Mercury now. Mar 18 2011, 01:06 AM Hungry4info End of main burn, tweaking now.
Edit: Lots of cla... Mar 18 2011, 01:09 AM belleraphon1 And... of course...
Sputnik 1957 Earth... the sho... Mar 18 2011, 02:14 AM tasp Was super busy all day today, and just now came to... Mar 18 2011, 03:12 AM NMRguy At long last, MESSENGER enters orbit! Congrats... Mar 18 2011, 03:54 AM Explorer1 And Itokawa! (if it counts as 'orbiting... Mar 18 2011, 06:27 AM Paolo Itokawa was too small. Hayabusa didn't do much... Mar 18 2011, 07:19 AM CAP-Team Congrats! Great to hear that it worked!
@... Mar 18 2011, 07:45 AM Stu Fantastic news! And if you haven't seen it... Mar 18 2011, 08:17 AM ngunn QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 18 2011, 08:17 AM) Emily... Mar 18 2011, 09:36 AM craigmcg Nice article in the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.c... Mar 18 2011, 08:57 AM Stu True, but we haven't got very good images of t... Mar 18 2011, 09:57 AM belleraphon1 unmanned spacecraft in orbit...
how did I miss t... Mar 18 2011, 11:38 AM brellis Emily's survey is great! I felt proud to r... Mar 18 2011, 01:07 PM ElkGroveDan QUOTE (brellis @ Mar 18 2011, 05:07 AM) l... Mar 18 2011, 01:58 PM Stu RE: MESSENGER ARRIVES Mar 18 2011, 01:59 PM machi Congratulation to the MESSENGER team!
QUOTE... Mar 18 2011, 02:11 PM Stu VERY proud that the MESSENGER team used a new poem... Mar 18 2011, 02:43 PM gndonald Congratulations to NASA!
I'm eagerly awai... Mar 18 2011, 03:54 PM elakdawalla QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 18 2011, 12:17 AM) Fanta... Mar 18 2011, 04:32 PM tedstryk QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Mar 18 2011, 05:32 P... Mar 18 2011, 04:59 PM nprev QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Mar 18 2011, 09:32 A... Mar 18 2011, 07:21 PM nprev Belated congrats after a long night of work to the... Mar 18 2011, 06:14 PM Drkskywxlt I was in the studio audience last night and I want... Mar 18 2011, 07:10 PM hendric QUOTE (Drkskywxlt @ Mar 18 2011, 02:10 PM... Mar 21 2011, 06:41 PM tedstryk QUOTE (hendric @ Mar 21 2011, 06:41 PM) (... Mar 22 2011, 09:59 AM elakdawalla You got half right, Nick! Mar 18 2011, 07:49 PM tedstryk The moon looks like an oddly colored earth-based v... Mar 18 2011, 08:57 PM SFJCody The Mercury view is Mariner 10 - you can see the C... Mar 18 2011, 09:13 PM Oersted Congrats to the Messenger team and their new in-ho... Mar 18 2011, 11:13 PM brellis "The challenge for us uber-geeks is to know j... Mar 19 2011, 01:57 AM elakdawalla Mercury: Mariner 10; Moon, an Earth-based photogra... Mar 19 2011, 04:23 AM eoincampbell Successfully named orbs, but camera names - not...... Mar 19 2011, 05:17 AM JohnVV a few days old
I have been ill
QUOTE Good to kno... Mar 19 2011, 10:05 AM Greg Hullender The Messenger site has updated the "Where is ... Mar 19 2011, 04:17 PM tanjent I can't load Greg's "where is Messeng... Mar 20 2011, 04:09 PM Greg Hullender QUOTE (tanjent @ Mar 20 2011, 08:09 AM) I... Mar 21 2011, 04:13 AM J.J. Though I'm a little late to the thread, I... Mar 19 2011, 05:32 PM Julius congrats to the messenger team..a job well done... Mar 20 2011, 09:31 AM brellis My eyes are getting thirsty for pics!! Mar 20 2011, 05:02 PM tedstryk It isn't going to take pictures until March 29... Mar 20 2011, 08:10 PM Explorer1 The link is fine on my end. Mar 20 2011, 07:34 PM Stu Really wanted to get this pic to mark MESSENGER... Mar 25 2011, 08:52 PM bkellysky Nice shot!
It's good to get a wide-angle v... Mar 25 2011, 10:51 PM Stu Thanks Even wider angle shot...
http://twitpic... Mar 25 2011, 11:00 PM bkellysky *Sigh*
That's wonderful!
My photos were ta... Mar 25 2011, 11:44 PM Holder of the Two Leashes Everything seems to be going okay so far.
Spacefl... Mar 26 2011, 08:17 PM Greg Hullender First pics tomorrow. Will anyone attend the press ... Mar 29 2011, 04:17 AM Astro0 It's a 'teleconference' so any media o... Mar 29 2011, 04:28 AM nprev IIRC, some of the first images will be of a previo... Mar 29 2011, 04:32 AM elakdawalla I *think* Louise said south pole. It's gonna ... Mar 29 2011, 04:35 AM Anders QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Mar 29 2011, 06:35 A... Mar 29 2011, 09:42 AM MahFL QUOTE (Anders @ Mar 29 2011, 10:42 AM) I ... Mar 29 2011, 01:13 PM nprev Well, not a 'great' question, but what is ... Mar 29 2011, 04:40 AM ugordan South pole it is.
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gal... Mar 29 2011, 07:51 AM Holder of the Two Leashes "Finnegan told Spaceflight Now the spacecraft... Mar 29 2011, 01:59 PM Anders QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Mar 29 201... Mar 29 2011, 04:30 PM ugordan QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Mar 29 201... Mar 29 2011, 05:20 PM Phil Stooke Twelve hours period, with a major data downlink ev... Mar 29 2011, 04:41 PM Anders QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 29 2011, 06:41 P... Mar 29 2011, 09:29 PM Hungry4info From here Mar 29 2011, 08:21 PM charborob Messenger took 363 images after that first one. Mo... Mar 29 2011, 08:26 PM Bjorn Jonsson The image is centered at approximately 15°E and 55... Mar 29 2011, 08:50 PM ugordan Looks good, nice to see the WAC behaving as if not... Mar 29 2011, 09:00 PM volcanopele Here is the image laid on top of the released foot... Mar 29 2011, 09:23 PM Phil Stooke Very rough fit of the image to a colorized version... Mar 29 2011, 09:39 PM brellis I read an article saying thrusters have to be fire... Mar 30 2011, 03:56 AM Hungry4info QUOTE (brellis @ Mar 29 2011, 09:56 PM) W... Mar 30 2011, 04:44 AM eoincampbell It really is astounding science, all hail MESSENGE... Mar 30 2011, 04:04 AM HughFromAlice What a great achievement!!!
First hi... Mar 30 2011, 05:01 AM Explorer1 There's a link to the teleconference on this p... Mar 30 2011, 05:46 PM Hungry4info Several new images have appeared here.
As for qu... Mar 30 2011, 06:00 PM elakdawalla No raw images for this mission, but their first de... Mar 30 2011, 06:32 PM nprev First color image released:
http://messenger.jhua... Mar 31 2011, 05:05 AM Drkskywxlt QUOTE (nprev @ Mar 31 2011, 01:05 AM) Hop... Mar 31 2011, 01:40 PM tedstryk It is what you might see if your eyes were properl... Mar 31 2011, 01:42 PM ZLD I've actually been wondering, are the filters ... Mar 31 2011, 06:45 AM djellison I see no reason why the chart would be wrong. The... Mar 31 2011, 01:33 PM Phil Stooke New pic!
Phil
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