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MSL Cruise Phase

nprev View Member Profile	Nov 26 2011, 03:50 PM Post #1
Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8790 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602	Okay, we're off and running! Please post all comments relating to MSL's transit to Mars here. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.

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djellison View Member Profile	Dec 4 2011, 08:23 PM Post #2
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14449 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	From http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/handle/2014/41883 QUOTE The first three TCMs will be jointly optimized to reduce propellant consumption and fulfill planetary protection requirements, with TCM-3 being the first TCM that is targeted to the final entry interface point. TCM-4 and TCM-5 will be used to improve the delivery accuracy at the entry interface, while TCM-6 is a contingency maneuver opportunity that is not needed to achieve the required entry interface accuracy, but is available to correct an unplanned late anomaly My understanding is that TCM 1 was only ever about backing out injection errors...and as they are so small, there's no need for it.

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nprev MSL Cruise Phase Nov 26 2011, 03:50 PM

Oersted The live footage of the first couple of kilomete... Nov 26 2011, 03:52 PM

climber Oppy, here I come ! Waiting for post launch co... Nov 26 2011, 04:07 PM

Oersted QUOTE (climber @ Nov 26 2011, 05:07 PM) O... Nov 26 2011, 04:34 PM

climber QUOTE (Oersted @ Nov 26 2011, 05:34 PM) W... Nov 26 2011, 04:48 PM

nprev Yeah, that was indeed a beautiful sight to behold,... Nov 26 2011, 04:08 PM

vikingmars ... and we just had champagne at home near Paris t... Nov 26 2011, 04:14 PM

DEChengst They just started showing the title card for the p... Nov 26 2011, 05:34 PM

sgendreau EDIT2: Not much news. No news is good news for ... Nov 26 2011, 06:01 PM

dmg Anyone know why the telemetry pickup from the laun... Nov 26 2011, 07:07 PM

MarsEngineer No news is good news indeed! We are watching... Nov 26 2011, 09:51 PM

Pando QUOTE (MarsEngineer @ Nov 26 2011, 02:51 ... Nov 26 2011, 11:16 PM

Oersted QUOTE (MarsEngineer @ Nov 26 2011, 10:51 ... Nov 27 2011, 12:20 AM

climber Tanks Rob, I was browsing like mad to get any news... Nov 26 2011, 10:11 PM

MERovingian Bravo to all the teams involved, JPL, ULA, NASA, K... Nov 26 2011, 10:52 PM

nprev Rob, thanks very much for taking the trouble durin... Nov 27 2011, 12:01 AM

Explorer1 Actually the last EDL was in 2008 with the Phoenix... Nov 27 2011, 12:01 AM

Oersted I uploaded footage of the launch and spacecraft se... Nov 27 2011, 12:44 AM

Syrinx Thank you sir for the videos. I was unable to wat... Nov 27 2011, 02:02 AM

tanjent I'm having some trouble with "data dropou... Nov 27 2011, 03:34 AM

kwan3217 (Full inline quote removed- Mod) The apogee for a... Nov 27 2011, 02:23 PM

scalbers QUOTE (kwan3217 @ Nov 27 2011, 03:23 PM) ... Nov 27 2011, 04:08 PM

kwan3217 (Full inline quote removed- Mod) The guys at JPL ... Nov 28 2011, 08:58 PM

john_s I was watching those numbers too. The apogee shou... Nov 27 2011, 03:54 AM

tanjent OK - I bet it actually finds the perigee by lookin... Nov 27 2011, 04:04 AM

MahFL The separation video was just awesome, although I ... Nov 27 2011, 04:49 AM

OKB001 QUOTE (MahFL @ Nov 26 2011, 08:49 PM) The... Nov 27 2011, 05:59 AM

tanjent Well, the altitude should be directly observable b... Nov 27 2011, 02:50 PM

Astro0 A little late to the party I guess. My weekend was... Nov 27 2011, 10:05 PM

MarsEngineer QUOTE (Astro0 @ Nov 27 2011, 02:05 PM) A ... Nov 28 2011, 12:36 AM

Oersted Oh, a rainbow to boot! Lovely panorama and tha... Nov 27 2011, 10:30 PM

MarsEngineer Hi all, Please take a look at the observations ma... Nov 28 2011, 12:54 AM

nprev ...words utterly fail me. Just remarkable. Many t... Nov 28 2011, 12:59 AM

eoincampbell WOW! Thanks for sharing another "Heimdall... Nov 28 2011, 03:05 AM

tanjent Quote: http://www.facebook.com/BrisbanePlanetarium... Nov 28 2011, 08:36 AM

Oersted That is an amazing timelapse! http://www.yout... Nov 28 2011, 01:12 PM

Oersted On my youtube page of MSL launch movies I am getti... Nov 28 2011, 03:10 PM

Greg Hullender QUOTE (Oersted @ Nov 28 2011, 07:10 AM) ... Nov 28 2011, 03:57 PM

Roby72 Here you could see Curiosity 10 hours 30 minutes a... Nov 28 2011, 09:51 PM

Bobby Question? Is there a site either through JPL or a... Nov 29 2011, 12:40 AM

punkboi http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/ MSL's position sho... Nov 29 2011, 12:49 AM

Astro0 As usual, Eyes on the Solar System can take us all... Nov 30 2011, 04:12 AM

Explorer1 Is the cruise stage's spin in real-time? Great... Nov 30 2011, 05:57 AM

MahFL Don't forget, the whole Rover is spinning....l... Nov 30 2011, 12:08 PM

MahFL I am not sure how accurate the model is but it loo... Nov 30 2011, 12:13 PM

ilbasso Should we bring her back for repairs? Nov 30 2011, 12:18 PM

MahFL I just read that the hand lens imager can take pic... Nov 30 2011, 01:52 PM

eoincampbell QUOTE (MahFL @ Nov 30 2011, 05:52 AM) ...... Nov 30 2011, 04:19 PM

Deimos http://msl-scicorner.jpl.nasa.gov/Instruments/MAHL... Nov 30 2011, 04:50 PM

pospa Also VERY cool would be any MAHLI picture from ins... Nov 30 2011, 02:22 PM

climber You can even dream of a shot of Spacecraft separat... Nov 30 2011, 03:05 PM

ElkGroveDan The next images we'll see from MSL will likely... Nov 30 2011, 03:46 PM

djellison QUOTE (pospa @ Nov 30 2011, 06:22 AM) Als... Nov 30 2011, 04:40 PM

MarsEngineer QUOTE (djellison @ Nov 30 2011, 08:40 AM)... Nov 30 2011, 04:57 PM

john_s I love the idea of the rover doing an "arms-l... Nov 30 2011, 05:21 PM

djellison It took all the way until working on the MSL anima... Nov 30 2011, 05:23 PM

climber I noticed on a previous video that legs extended a... Nov 30 2011, 06:18 PM

djellison Actually - the descent stage thrusters do start be... Nov 30 2011, 07:25 PM

john_s That "hard drop", with the rover falling... Nov 30 2011, 07:38 PM

climber I read, where?, that, as soon as released, Curiosi... Nov 30 2011, 07:53 PM

Ron Hobbs From what I thought was a very informative article... Nov 30 2011, 08:17 PM

djellison Ron - as far as I know, that article has it about ... Nov 30 2011, 10:33 PM

MahFL Well I should have known better the tragectory man... Dec 1 2011, 12:23 AM

Syrinx http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/...11201... Dec 2 2011, 07:42 AM

stevesliva Seems to be regurgitating the same source: http://... Dec 2 2011, 07:56 AM

MahFL The Eyes on the Solar System make my IE 8 crash af... Dec 2 2011, 03:10 PM

djellison QUOTE (MahFL @ Dec 2 2011, 07:10 AM) The ... Dec 2 2011, 06:52 PM

B Bernatchez No problems for me (that wouldn't be fixed by ... Dec 2 2011, 05:42 PM

Mars Attack I'm a bit concerned about the reported reset o... Dec 4 2011, 02:57 PM

stevesliva QUOTE (Mars Attack @ Dec 4 2011, 10:57 AM... Dec 4 2011, 04:55 PM

Mars Attack QUOTE (stevesliva @ Dec 4 2011, 04:55 PM)... Dec 4 2011, 05:20 PM

Paolo QUOTE (Mars Attack @ Dec 4 2011, 03:57 PM... Dec 4 2011, 07:04 PM

ElkGroveDan There is extra fuel aboard and my understanding is... Dec 4 2011, 03:42 PM

centsworth_II QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Dec 4 2011, 10:42 AM... Dec 4 2011, 07:18 PM

Hiwayman Sorry for this being posted in the wrong forum, bu... Dec 4 2011, 03:56 PM

Oersted QUOTE (Hiwayman @ Dec 4 2011, 04:56 PM) S... Dec 4 2011, 08:43 PM

elakdawalla Someone else pointed this out to me on the Atlas f... Dec 4 2011, 04:19 PM

Hiwayman QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Dec 4 2011, 09:19 AM... Dec 4 2011, 04:28 PM

climber QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Dec 4 2011, 05:19 PM... Dec 4 2011, 06:52 PM

djellison From http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/handle/201... Dec 4 2011, 08:23 PM

nprev Yeah, it really was a sweet launch...and major kud... Dec 4 2011, 08:49 PM

Mars Attack Mr. Doug Djellison, any chance that you could expa... Dec 4 2011, 11:00 PM

djellison We hope to - but it's entirely a matter of bud... Dec 4 2011, 11:12 PM

climber QUOTE (djellison @ Dec 5 2011, 12:12 AM) ... Dec 5 2011, 11:38 AM

punkboi You can now view MSL's current position in spa... Dec 7 2011, 05:57 AM

Syrinx http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/wspace?t...=1... Dec 7 2011, 07:56 AM

Lucas For the impatient among us... http://space.jpl... Dec 7 2011, 02:56 PM

pospa T +18 days - MSL has about 9% of its cruise done a... Dec 14 2011, 02:32 PM

punkboi Where is Curiosity now? There's now a dedicate... Dec 14 2011, 10:27 PM

Lunik9 New sunspot 1387 erupted during the late hours of ... Dec 26 2011, 09:28 AM

Explorer1 How large would an event have to be to seriously i... Dec 26 2011, 11:40 PM

centsworth_II According to Curiosity and the Solar Storm, CMEs p... Dec 27 2011, 08:05 AM

pospa TCM-1 scheduled for Jan 11th, dv 5,5 m/s. Then eq... Jan 6 2012, 11:03 PM

pospa TCM-1 completed successfully. Rob Manning describ... Jan 13 2012, 10:01 AM

Phil Stooke "By the time a CME reaches the Earth-Mars exp... Jan 13 2012, 12:12 PM

climber According to AW&ST next trajectory correction ... Jan 31 2012, 06:53 PM

pospa Not sure if mentioned here before, but radio amate... Feb 6 2012, 09:53 AM

MahFL Software fix for Star Tracker problem. Tracker Feb 10 2012, 01:37 PM

Mars Attack The computer that received the software fix, is i... Mar 1 2012, 03:36 PM

MahFL QUOTE (Mars Attack @ Mar 1 2012, 03:36 PM... Mar 2 2012, 12:20 AM

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