Hayabusa - The Return To Earth, The voyage home |
Hayabusa - The Return To Earth, The voyage home |
Nov 28 2005, 03:08 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 510 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Southeast Michigan Member No.: 209 |
...starting a new thread for Hayabusa's sampling feedback and the return voyage.
After its nail-biting success in November, will there be enough fuel for the Falcon to make it home? -------------------- --O'Dave
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Dec 14 2005, 04:47 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
QUOTE If the ion engines are ignited again by the 2007 spring, the vehicle can return to the earth on June 2010. 2010? Any massive solar flares scheduled between now and then? I don't know if I can take another Nozomi experience. I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like to be an engineer on these missions - the long hard work of trying to bring the falcon home to roost. It's crazy making enough as a spectator to see the constant ups and downs - 2 bullets fired! No bullets fired! Sample! No Sample! Leak! "Salvation Mode" let alone having to troubleshoot the beast. -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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