PROCYON, Small satellite asteroid flyby launched with Hayabusa 2 |
PROCYON, Small satellite asteroid flyby launched with Hayabusa 2 |
Dec 7 2014, 07:58 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2091 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
PROCYON is in the right trajectory too; the initial operations phase has begun.
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Flight_S...ROCYON_999.html |
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Dec 9 2014, 11:01 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 22 Joined: 15-November 14 Member No.: 7320 |
Maybe PROCYON soon needs its own thread.
Next to the JAXA press release, already mentioned above in the spacedaily article, it also has a facebook page. Some posts are in english, but goole translate helped me with the interesing other statements the last days, that the three-axis attitude control system was successfully tested by starting the RCS. The post is illustrated with some nice ASCII art that shows housekeeping data. The last post shows the calibration test for the attitude control, with an initial "oversteering" of a deliberate change of 10° from the sun orientation and then as google translate says: "I was able to direct the clean attitude of goal without having to vibration as "After" in Figure!!!" Picture here. I think it's really nice to have such direct reports from the team and the spacecraft. I remember that from other japanese missions, like the blog from the IKAROS mission. |
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