Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter |
Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter |
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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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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 ![]() |
a release in Japanese, with descent size images:
http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/topics/000826.html |
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![]() Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 611 Joined: 23-February 07 From: Occasionally in Columbia, MD Member No.: 1764 ![]() |
Some unhappy news
http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/topics/000902.html Although the images have been coming in pretty well over the last year, and some good Radio Occultation experiments have been done, the electronics unit that drives the IR1 and IR2 cameras suffered an anomaly in December, so for now those two cameras have not been returning data. Recovery efforts continue. The ultraviolet, thermal IR and lightning/airglow cameras are unaffected and continue to operate. Ralph |
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With the loss of the IR cameras coming about 10 months into the science mission, and with Akatsuki's orbit having a period of 8 days, it should have acquired up to 40 or so periapsis observations. That's still a wonderful return from the IR instruments if all those 10 months of data were successfully acquired. I'm looking forward to seeing the resulting research as publications come forth.
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