MESSENGER ARRIVES, Mercury Orbit Insertion |
MESSENGER ARRIVES, Mercury Orbit Insertion |
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 ![]() |
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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I was in the studio audience last night and I want to give kudos to APL for putting on a very entertaining and informative show. Pretty amazing that by July we'll have spacecraft orbiting 8 solar system bodies (Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars, Vesta and Saturn). Too bad MESSENGER probably won't be around in 2016 when Juno arrives at Jupiter to make it 9!
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![]() Director of Galilean Photography ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 ![]() |
Too bad MESSENGER probably won't be around in 2016 when Juno arrives at Jupiter to make it 9! Ah, but May 2014 will have Rosetta orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (can we start calling it C-G now? ![]() -------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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![]() Interplanetary Dumpster Diver ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 ![]() |
(can we start calling it C-G now? Nope, and you have to say it fast five times every time you mention it. -------------------- |
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