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 17 2005, 08:52 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 356 Joined: 12-March 05 Member No.: 190 |
Heathens! How dare you try to explain away Hayabusa's divine epicycles as a mere illusion of refrence point!!
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Dec 19 2005, 07:02 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
QUOTE (deglr6328 @ Dec 17 2005, 12:52 AM) Heathens! How dare you try to explain away Hayabusa's divine epicycles as a mere illusion of refrence point!! Well - I think Hayabusa's epicycles ARE part of a divine plan - from the JAXA home page, it appears no one less than The Pope himself is working on their Vision: I mean, who else besides Elvis wears all white? And while we're at it, does anyone else think Harrison Schmitt is slowly morphing into Von Braun? As for Hayabusa being an engineering mission, JAXA itself only weighted science observations as 50 points out of 500 total for mission success. Though it does appear that some encounter data has been useful, that still leaves : 3. Touch-down and Sample 4. Capsule Recovered 5. Sample obtained for Analysis as unfulfilled criteria. Without 4 and 5, we may never really know if 3 was accomplished it seems. Space science can't be done on the cheap, not even by the Japanese. -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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