Enceladus-3 (March 12, 2008) |
Enceladus-3 (March 12, 2008) |
Guest_AlexBlackwell_* |
Feb 24 2006, 09:12 PM
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Excerpt from Cassini Significant Events for 02/16/06 - 02/22/06:
"As mentioned in previous weeks, the project has been working on adopting a new reference trajectory in order to raise the minimum Titan flyby altitude for various encounters. Today the project reached a decision to proceed with the 'optocc2' trajectory. Additional work is still to be performed before delivery of the final files. This will include minor tweaks that have been analyzed in other trajectories, adjusting orbit 68 timing, and capture of an Enceladus plume occultation on orbit 28." For the record, the new reference trajectory will result in an even more spectacular Enceladus-3 flyby [61EN (t) E3] on March 12, 2008. |
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Guest_BruceMoomaw_* |
Mar 10 2006, 07:24 PM
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Looks like you missed my sarcasm. A better description would be "blindlingly obvious." Oh, I got it. My whole point was that Spilker's group didn't seem to realize that this provided another good reason to orient the piggyback lander on EO toward engineering rather than scientific measurements until Karla Clark and I mentioned it. It hadn't been "blindingly obvious" to them -- or rather the political implications of a last-second EAL failure hadn't been blindingly obvious to them. |
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Guest_AlexBlackwell_* |
Mar 10 2006, 07:44 PM
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Oh, I got it. My whole point was that Spilker's group didn't seem to realize that this provided another good reason to orient the piggyback lander on EO toward engineering rather than scientific measurements until Karla Clark and I mentioned it. It hadn't been "blindingly obvious" to them -- or rather the political implications of a last-second EAL failure hadn't been blindingly obvious to them. OK, Bruce, let me suggest this. Take a magic marker and write on your palm "EAL landing failure = bad; EAL landing success = good." Hey, maybe it's me, but if the "political implications of a last-second EAL failure [isn't] blindingly obvious to them," then "the[y]" have been living in a cave if "they" do not realize the ramifications in a failure of a multi-billion dollar Flagship-class mission. This post has been edited by AlexBlackwell: Mar 10 2006, 08:18 PM |
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