The Surveyor Lunar Roving Vehicle, Plans for a rover to accompany Surveyor |
The Surveyor Lunar Roving Vehicle, Plans for a rover to accompany Surveyor |
Aug 18 2005, 04:05 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Surveyor Lunar Roving Vehicle, phase I. Volume V - System evaluation Final technical report
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntr..._1966004162.pdf -------------------- "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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Mar 20 2006, 08:15 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
Note that all 5 Lunar Orbiters carried two small but technically significant engineering instruments.
Radiation dosimeters recorded the ionizing radiation flux to monitor dosage for possible film-fogging problems. Data from the instruments provided confidence that modeled radiation exposure probabilities for Apollo astronauts were likely reasonably accurate. More scientificaly interesting, each Orbiter carried a set of meteoroid impact penetration cells, similar to those carried on the Pegasus spacecraft in low Earth orbit and Pioneeds 10 and 11 past Jupiter and Saturn. I think there is one of those NASA-CR (green covered) series Contractors Report summarising results from those measurements. Not much data with low statistics, but very reassuring to know approximately what was or more importantly was NOT there. AIMP (Anchored Interplanetary Monitoring Platform) Explorer 33 (I think I have the numbers right) was mis-launched by a small amount (I think with a low apoapsis) and was not able to make lunar orbit. Explorer 35 was entirely successful and operated for several years in lunar orbit providing the first really good set of particles and fields data at the Moon. Also lunar orbiting, but utterly not-lunar-oriented, was the low frequency Radio Astronomy Explorer with L-O-N-G dipole antennas. It used or attempted to use lunar occultatin to identify distant low frequency sources, together with distance from Earth's radio noise. I never heard much science from the mission and what I did wasn't that impressive, but it did fly. |
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Mar 20 2006, 01:08 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
I wonder whether the Radio Astronomy Explorer is still in Lunar orbit? As I recall, it was in a high orbit, unlike practically all the rest of the spacecraft which have entered Lunar orbit (it also had h-u-g-e wire antennae).
Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Mar 20 2006, 04:51 PM
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I wonder whether the Radio Astronomy Explorer is still in Lunar orbit? As I recall, it was in a high orbit, unlike practically all the rest of the spacecraft which have entered Lunar orbit (it also had h-u-g-e wire antennae). Bob Shaw I have attempted to determine this from what I would consider to be the best sources available, namely the NASA homepage and Astronautix.com. However, I have not been able to resolve the question. What I have found is the basic information on the craft itself. The information I have found is as follows: 1. R.A.E Data from Astronautix.com 2. Nasa Projects Homepage I will do a further search and see what, if anything I can dig up. |
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