Manfred Memorial Moon Mission, The first private lunar mission |
Manfred Memorial Moon Mission, The first private lunar mission |
 Oct 22 2014, 02:47 PM
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Solar System Cartographer  Group: Members Posts: 10180 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227  |
http://moon.luxspace.lu/
This little spacecraft will be launched as a secondary payload with the Chang'E 5 test vehicle on Thursday 23 October... tomorrow as I write this. It won't do a lot, but it will loop around the Moon and come back roughly towards Earth - the trajectory will be rather uncertain and it can't be changed, so we don't really know where it will end up, but probably it will burn up in our atmosphere. It will transmit signals for amateur radio systems to pick up, including some radiation data. The website suggests some contests etc. to be designed around it. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Nov 10 2014, 01:02 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10180 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
If you don't count the old communication satellite which used 2 lunar gravity assists to rescue itself and get back to a geostationary orbit.
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33835 Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Nov 11 2014, 08:11 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 202 Joined: 9-September 08 Member No.: 4334 |
QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Nov 10 2014, 01:02 AM)  If you don't count the old communication satellite which used 2 lunar gravity assists to rescue itself and get back to a geostationary orbit. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=33835 Phil Ah, cool, I'd never heard of that - thanks. |
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Phil Stooke Manfred Memorial Moon Mission Oct 22 2014, 02:47 PM
Phil Stooke Also - I only learned this today:
https://twitter... Oct 23 2014, 03:27 AM elakdawalla Thanks for those links, Phil. I've been chatti... Oct 23 2014, 03:14 PM Phil Stooke Oh, good, thanks! That's really good to k... Oct 23 2014, 03:44 PM TheAnt 4M comes with a radiation experiment provided by t... Oct 23 2014, 05:28 PM Phil Stooke MMMM (AKA M4) is about to loop around the Moon, an... Oct 27 2014, 03:14 PM Phil Stooke Still alive apparently:
AMSAT-UK Jonathan McDowel... Nov 6 2014, 04:48 AM Vultur Is this the first private payload beyond LEO? Nov 10 2014, 12:18 AM
gwiz There was also the Japanese Shin-en payload in May... Nov 10 2014, 11:07 AM
Phil Stooke 4M end of mission is reported:
http://amsat-uk.o... Nov 14 2014, 05:49 PM |
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