Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter |
Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter |
Mar 13 2010, 11:29 AM
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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 separate thread on this mission, launching soon
some good medium-resolution images of the spacecraft are available on JAXA digital archives http://jda.jaxa.jp/jda/p3_e.php?time=N&...mp;mission=4066 |
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Jan 31 2012, 11:12 PM
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#502
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Some Japanese followers of mine on Twitter have said that it's actually not December 2016 they were discussing, but June 2016. Also, apparently the choice of 2016 for orbit entry isn't as set in stone as Yomiuri makes it seem. At the press briefing they seemed to have been discussing trade-offs between degradation of the orbiter's systems and the fact that with every Venus swingby they do, they can improve the scientifically useful characteristics of the orbit they can achieve on the next encounter.
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