MESSENGER News Thread, news, updates and discussion |
MESSENGER News Thread, news, updates and discussion |
 Apr 20 2005, 11:22 AM
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Launched on August 3rd 2004, NASA's MESSENGER will become the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury.
News and updates are availbale via Johns Hopkins University MESSENGER website and the Kennedy Space Center's MESSENGER website. There will be an earth flyby in August followed by a couple of swings by Venus and three velocity scrubbing passages past mecury before the craft enters orbit in March 2011. April 18, 2005 status report from JHU. Extensive JHU FAQs page here. |
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Dec 1 2005, 02:42 AM
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I was hoping that since Messenger was launched on a mid size rocket, and that a large part of the delta vee is from the grav. assists at earth Venus, and Mercury, a big Titan IV (or whatever the big launcher is now) could send a useful vehicle on a two way trip. The 'smash and grab' idea for a sample return I saw here is just starting to seem a little more doable, perhaps . . . .
Amazing to be looking at these (formerly) exotic trajectories, from Mercury sample returns to Pluto landers, it just keeps getting better all the time. 
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paxdan MESSENGER News Thread Apr 20 2005, 11:22 AM
Buck Galaxy QUOTE (paxdan @ Apr 20 2005, 11:22 AM)Launche... May 29 2005, 06:19 PM
Jeff7 QUOTE (Buck Galaxy @ May 29 2005, 02:19 PM)QU... May 29 2005, 08:14 PM tedstryk Mariner 10 Photographed 45% of Mercury, or almost ... May 29 2005, 08:33 PM
MiniTES MESSENGER = strained acronym. It's even worse ... May 29 2005, 09:51 PM JRehling QUOTE (Buck Galaxy @ May 29 2005, 11:19 AM)I ... May 31 2005, 01:27 AM tedstryk QUOTE (JRehling @ May 31 2005, 01:27 AM)As ot... May 31 2005, 02:12 AM edstrick Uh... doesn't Messenger have a laser altimiter... May 31 2005, 05:02 AM Bob Shaw I'm reminded of the darkside images taken of t... May 31 2005, 11:19 AM JRehling QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ May 31 2005, 04:19 AM)I... May 31 2005, 03:43 PM Bob Shaw Darn - I hadn't thought of that, and it's ... May 31 2005, 04:04 PM Chmee QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ May 31 2005, 12:04 PM)OK, w... May 31 2005, 04:53 PM JRehling QUOTE (edstrick @ May 30 2005, 10:02 PM)Uh...... May 31 2005, 03:52 PM RNeuhaus Is Mercury atmosphere similar to Moon rather than ... Jun 1 2005, 02:48 AM paxdan Earth from MESSENGER at 29.6 million km Jun 1 2005, 08:39 AM Sunspot http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/pres...se_5_... Jun 1 2005, 08:40 AM um3k No focusing problems on this baby! Jun 1 2005, 05:01 PM lyford I always enjoy these far off shots of Earth. They... Jun 1 2005, 06:30 PM paxdan QUOTE (lyford @ Jun 1 2005, 07:30 PM)I always... Jun 1 2005, 07:43 PM BruceMoomaw QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Jun 1 2005, 02:48 AM)Is Mer... Jun 1 2005, 07:49 PM Bob Shaw Bruce:
Can Messenger's instruments detect He ... Jun 2 2005, 09:00 PM JRehling QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jun 2 2005, 02:00 PM)Bruce:... Jun 3 2005, 12:53 PM Buck Galaxy QUOTE (JRehling @ Jun 3 2005, 12:53 PM)In pri... Jun 4 2005, 02:46 AM Phil Stooke Buck Galaxy said:
Huh? I thought the moon's r... Jun 4 2005, 03:05 AM BruceMoomaw Specifically, it's about one part He-3 per 100... Jun 4 2005, 05:55 AM Bob Shaw Mining the moon for He3 would, of course, give us ... Jun 4 2005, 05:26 PM Toma B So there will not be another image of Earth for ho... Jun 15 2005, 04:41 PM BruceMoomaw Because Messenger is usually too close to Earth to... Jun 16 2005, 02:56 AM gpurcell QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Jun 16 2005, 02:56 AM)Be... Jun 16 2005, 03:34 PM BruceMoomaw "Because Messenger is usually too close to Ea... Jun 16 2005, 02:57 AM JRehling QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Jun 15 2005, 07:57 PM)... Jun 28 2005, 12:05 PM BruceMoomaw Yes indeedy. Quite a bit (even including using Me... Jun 17 2005, 06:54 AM djellison Galileo and NEAR both did it - producing movies of... Jun 28 2005, 12:27 PM Toma B They did it....BUT WHERE ARE THE IMAGES OR MOVIES?... Jun 28 2005, 01:37 PM JRehling QUOTE (djellison @ Jun 28 2005, 05:27 AM)Gali... Jun 28 2005, 04:48 PM djellison ERmmm..
NEAR - http://near.jhuapl.edu/Images/.Ani... Jun 28 2005, 01:50 PM Bjorn Jonsson And if you want thousands of PDS-formatted Galileo... Jun 28 2005, 03:24 PM Sunspot http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/pres...se_8_... Aug 2 2005, 07:45 PM dilo waitng for the movie...
The picture reported in th... Aug 4 2005, 06:33 AM Myran Either reorientation or its in a constant slow rot... Aug 4 2005, 01:35 PM djf Just noticed this: http://planetary.org/news/2005... Aug 28 2005, 02:19 AM deglr6328 Oh that is just spec-freakin'-tacular! So... Aug 28 2005, 02:54 AM hendric We do have one hell of a beautiful planet.
Anyon... Aug 28 2005, 01:48 PM JRehling QUOTE (hendric @ Aug 28 2005, 06:48 AM)We do ... Aug 28 2005, 04:14 PM tedstryk QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 28 2005, 04:14 PM)No li... Aug 28 2005, 05:47 PM hendric Hmmm...I wonder if they have done any ridiculously... Aug 28 2005, 08:59 PM djellison If and when the Messenger data is on the PDS - I... Aug 28 2005, 10:17 PM Stephen The MESSENGER team has posted a quite amazing ... Aug 29 2005, 01:42 AM MizarKey That movie is one of the most spectacular things I... Aug 31 2005, 10:00 PM BruceMoomaw It is; it's a lovely piece of work. Aug 31 2005, 10:02 PM dvandorn That little movie captures the reality of what sci... Sep 1 2005, 07:10 AM djellison Correct me if I'm wrong - but Messenger's ... Sep 1 2005, 07:24 AM tedstryk I was looking at the chart below. I noticed that ... Sep 11 2005, 12:36 PM BruceMoomaw Quite a bit -- they even intend to use the laser a... Sep 11 2005, 02:27 PM tedstryk QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Sep 11 2005, 02:27 PM)Qu... Sep 11 2005, 05:43 PM BruceMoomaw Several years ago, Sean Solomon told me a fair amo... Sep 11 2005, 10:59 PM um3k QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Sep 11 2005, 06:59 PM)Su... Sep 12 2005, 02:37 PM JRehling QUOTE (um3k @ Sep 12 2005, 07:37 AM)Does that... Sep 12 2005, 06:21 PM um3k I know you can get them from Earth, I meant pictur... Sep 12 2005, 06:51 PM JRehling QUOTE (um3k @ Sep 12 2005, 11:51 AM)I know yo... Sep 13 2005, 03:16 PM um3k QUOTE (JRehling @ Sep 13 2005, 11:16 AM)You c... Sep 13 2005, 04:36 PM odave From the Messenger Website FAQ:
QUOTE The Venus f... Sep 13 2005, 04:50 PM The Messenger The only problem with the timeline is that at orbi... Sep 13 2005, 04:01 PM BruceMoomaw "The only problem with the timeline is that a... Sep 14 2005, 07:36 PM dvandorn You don't need to be old to be ornery (though ... Sep 14 2005, 07:45 PM BruceMoomaw Let me add to my reputation for orneriness: if you... Sep 15 2005, 05:52 AM Bob Shaw QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Sep 15 2005, 06:52 AM)Le... Sep 15 2005, 08:48 PM edstrick Harlan Ellison: "The Mouth that Walks like a... Sep 15 2005, 08:09 AM BruceMoomaw As I noted in the "Future Venus Missions... Nov 6 2005, 02:20 AM Rakhir Messenger Status Report :
MESSENGER Team Prepares... Nov 14 2005, 11:27 AM antoniseb I saw that Messenger is currently closer to the Su... Nov 30 2005, 01:48 PM tedstryk QUOTE (Rakhir @ Nov 14 2005, 11:27 AM)Messeng... Nov 30 2005, 03:19 PM BruceMoomaw This is the very last component of Messenger that ... Nov 30 2005, 03:23 PM tedstryk QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Nov 30 2005, 03:23 PM)Th... Nov 30 2005, 03:52 PM JRehling QUOTE (tedstryk @ Nov 30 2005, 07:52 AM)What ... Nov 30 2005, 04:37 PM tasp QUOTE (JRehling @ Nov 30 2005, 10:37 AM)The m... Nov 30 2005, 06:02 PM JRehling QUOTE (tasp @ Nov 30 2005, 10:02 AM)Has anyon... Nov 30 2005, 07:53 PM dvandorn Well, it *may* not happen in the lifetimes of the ... Nov 30 2005, 10:41 PM BruceMoomaw Actually, it might be doable with a smaller booste... Dec 1 2005, 10:22 PM BruceMoomaw http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html : ... Dec 12 2005, 09:21 PM ljk4-1 A thought from someone on another space list:
Wil... Dec 14 2005, 07:45 PM AlexBlackwell It might be possible during the June 2007 flyby; h... Dec 14 2005, 08:28 PM angel1801 QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Dec 15 2005, 05:58... Mar 23 2006, 11:10 AM AlexBlackwell QUOTE (angel1801 @ Mar 23 2006, 11:10 AM)... Mar 23 2006, 04:48 PM ugordan QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Mar 23 2006, 05:48... Mar 23 2006, 05:06 PM Sunspot QUOTE (ugordan @ Mar 23 2006, 05:06 PM) I... Mar 23 2006, 05:11 PM AlexBlackwell QUOTE (ugordan @ Mar 23 2006, 05:06 PM) I... Mar 23 2006, 05:16 PM dilo A flyby mosaic (only 7 images) Mar 23 2006, 09:28 PM AlexBlackwell MESSENGER Mission News
February 23, 2006
http://me... Feb 23 2006, 05:35 PM dilo Flyby images are beautiful, thanks Alex.
Starting ... Mar 22 2006, 08:52 PM AlexBlackwell MESSENGER Passes the Billion-Mile Mark!
MESSEN... Mar 24 2006, 09:08 PM antoniseb Messenger is now further from the Sun than the Ear... Apr 5 2006, 08:20 PM abalone QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Mar 25 2006, 07:08... Apr 6 2006, 01:20 PM RNeuhaus A new update news from Messenger status:
Mercury... Jun 24 2006, 04:52 AM AlexBlackwell If this has been mentioned already, pardon the rep... Jul 27 2006, 02:03 AM AlexBlackwell MESSENGER Mission News
August 3, 2006
http://mes... Aug 3 2006, 09:27 PM AlexBlackwell MESSENGER Mission News
August 4, 2006
http://mes... Aug 4 2006, 09:23 PM AlexBlackwell MESSENGER Tweaks Its Route to Mercury
MESSENGER Mi... Sep 16 2006, 12:36 AM climber A quick reminder : Messenger is only 13 days to Ve... Oct 10 2006, 09:16 PM |
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