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, 02:33 AM
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I very much doubt it will be around by then, and I'm afraid we will soon be able to add Hayabusa to Japan's almost unbroken modern record of space failures -- although at least it came a good deal closer to success than most of Japan's missions do. Space missions simply cannot be done on such low funding levels.
I shudder to report that -- according to the Nov. 28 Aviation Week -- JAXA has been taking its advice on how to reform its space program from Dan Goldin. |
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Dec 14 2005, 02:38 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
So - would another nation be willing and able to recover Hayabusa or at least any samples it may have, or even take over its mission?
If the probe is going to hang around Itokawa for almost another year, will it continue to study the planetoid? -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Dec 14 2005, 10:46 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: 12-December 05 From: Petrozavodsk, Russia Member No.: 607 |
QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Dec 14 2005, 06:38 AM) If the probe is going to hang around Itokawa for almost another year, will it continue to study the planetoid? Yes! They MUST do it, we all hope to see once more the Enigmatic Stone Garden of Itokawa |
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Dec 17 2005, 01:54 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
QUOTE (amezz @ Dec 14 2005, 11:46 AM) I suspect that 'hanging around' Itokawa would not actually involve being near enough to see anything - if the spacecraft has to be kept simply ticking over, then they won't want to waste resources doing extended station-keeping with what turned out to be a very small and difficult target. Except for the return element, Hayabusa has been a stunning success, and I hope we don't see the mission downplayed a la Nozomi. Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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