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 19 2005, 10:31 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 178 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 498 |
QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Dec 19 2005, 02:54 PM) One other thing I don't understand, though, is what your whole point is. Are you saying NEAR should have been put off for five years in order to get more advanced infrared detector technology? Or perhaps you are saying the United States should have scuttled the NEAR and Deep Space 1 programs, waited for some other nation (perhaps Japan) to fly both a dedicated asteroid mission and ion engine driven spacecraft first, and then build our own programs on their experience more cheaply? I thought that the general mood of the board, the spirit of this thread, was that Hayabusa is a success of comparable magnitude to NEAR even without the sample return. It seemed to me that it is you that has a point to make, Holder, to whit that NEAR was hugely better than Hayabusa. Your brinkmanship in suggesting that the participants here would like to see any exploration programs whatsoever scuttled, no matter the host nation, is political posturing.
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Dec 19 2005, 11:45 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 544 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Oklahoma Member No.: 557 |
QUOTE (Joffan @ Dec 19 2005, 04:31 PM) I thought that the general mood of the board, the spirit of this thread, was that Hayabusa is a success of comparable magnitude to NEAR even without the sample return. The general sense of the spirit I was picking up was Hayabusa was the equal of NEAR for less money, or that it actually accomplished far more in certain areas such as infrared remote sensing. Hayabusa had the advantage of superior technology and the prior experience of NEAR to draw on in making it's specs for it's instrumentation, along with all the other flight operations planning. QUOTE (Joffan @ Dec 19 2005, 04:31 PM) It seemed to me that it is you that has a point to make, Holder, to whit that NEAR was hugely better than Hayabusa. Your brinkmanship in suggesting that the participants here would like to see any exploration programs whatsoever scuttled, no matter the host nation, is political posturing. Your opinions about my post are duly noted, Joffan. Thank you very much. There is no doubt that Hayabusa has made a significant contribution to the study of NEOs, and has paved the way for more successful missions in the future, which the Japanese by all rights should be in the forefront of pursuing. I earlier made a rather snide comment in one posting about the possibility of what kind of sample Hayabusa would be bringing back. This was during a time of frustration over all the problems it was having. I also earlier voted on a poll in this forum on whether Hayabusa would succeed in returning to earth with a sample. I voted "no". I'm more confident in that vote than ever. I trust most of you (certainly not all of you) will believe me when I say I will take no joy in it if I turn out to be right, and would be happy to be wrong. |
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