Juno perijoves 2 and 3, October 19 and December 11, 2016 |
Juno perijoves 2 and 3, October 19 and December 11, 2016 |
Oct 26 2016, 04:44 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 23 Joined: 13-October 13 Member No.: 7013 |
A lot has happened and it seemed like a good time to start a new post. We will be staying in 53 day orbits until the project has a full understanding of the risks that may or may not be associated with reducing the orbit period to 14 days per our previous plan.
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Oct 28 2016, 09:34 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 10 Joined: 17-February 16 Member No.: 7899 |
Until and unless we figure out how to fix or find a way to work around the engine sticky-valve issue, the new orbit perijoves will be on 2016 Dec 11 (PJ3), 2017 Feb 2 (PJ4), Mar 27 (PJ5), May 18 (PJ6), Jul 10 (PJ7), Sep 2 (PJ8), Oct 25 (PJ9). It's like that a solution/workaround will not be figured out until the time frame of PJ7.
This will affect not only the mission, but nearly all of the Earth-based support campaign. |
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Oct 28 2016, 11:38 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
I'm curious, should the engine problem be unresolved, if the mission will run the same number of perijoves over a longer span of time or a lesser number of perijoves over a mission of the planned duration, or something between the two.
Given a solar panel power supply, it would seem that absolute mission duration would not be the bottleneck, although a longer mission would surely have more costly ground support needs. |
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