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, 08:17 AM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Fantastic news! And if you haven't seen it already, Emily has made an absolutely gorgeous pic for her blog, showing Mercury's size compared to other familiar bodies in the solar system...
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002965 -------------------- |
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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 unmanned spacecraft in orbit.. firsts..
1966 Luna... Mar 18 2011, 01:59 AM Paolo QUOTE (belleraphon1 @ Mar 18 2011, 02:59 ... Mar 18 2011, 06:22 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 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
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/... Mar 31 2011, 04:49 PM |
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