Dawn's last mission extensions at Ceres, From XMO3 to EOM |
Dawn's last mission extensions at Ceres, From XMO3 to EOM |
Feb 1 2017, 02:37 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 544 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Oklahoma Member No.: 557 |
This thread will cover all final phases of the Dawn mission, the end of which is not certain at this point.
XMO3 was suppose to be the final orbit, but now plans have changed and it will move into a new higher altitude and higher phase orbit soon. This will be XMO4. An interesting monthly journal for January details the plan: Dawn Journal 31 January 2017 |
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Jun 20 2017, 05:25 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 656 Joined: 20-April 05 From: League City, Texas Member No.: 285 |
What about a Europa flyby, with some asteroid flybys en-route? Not sure about the gravity gradient, but it might be more efficient to head inward and get an orbital assist from Mars, or it might not. Given the current state of knowledge about Europa, we could probably learn a lot from a targeted flyby -- and probably 10 or more years before we have an orbiter in place.
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