MASCOT landing on Ryugu, 3 October 2018 |
MASCOT landing on Ryugu, 3 October 2018 |
Oct 2 2018, 04:07 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1441 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
The Japanese Hayabusa 2 twitter account reports that the spacecraft has begun descending toward Ryugu in preparation to deploy the MASCOT lander. Nothing on the English twitter as of the time of this post.
https://twitter.com/haya2_jaxa/status/1046965970466746369 -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Oct 4 2018, 08:18 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
As a comparison - the camera on MASCOT ( MasCam ) is somewhat related to the CIVA cameras on Philae.
4 CIVA images were released to the public after Philae's landing The full CIVA data was finally released to the ESA PSA in August of this year. That's 13.5 years after the first data was collected by CIVA and 3 years after the end of Philae's mission Patience is going to be required. Lots of it. We have been thoroughly spoiled by MER, MSL, Cassini and New Horizons. It is quite apparent that other agencies do not consider that kind of image release policy to be the new normal. |
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Oct 4 2018, 09:39 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 22-September 18 From: Bavaria Member No.: 8456 |
"Inside Information" from a participant of the IAC: There is going to be a press conference at the IAC tomorrow (Friday) at 6:30 UTC, so in about nine hours. But I haven't seen any announcements, tweets so far.
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