MESSENGER News Thread, news, updates and discussion |
MESSENGER News Thread, news, updates and discussion |
Apr 20 2005, 11:22 AM
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Launched on August 3rd 2004, NASA's MESSENGER will become the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury.
News and updates are availbale via Johns Hopkins University MESSENGER website and the Kennedy Space Center's MESSENGER website. There will be an earth flyby in August followed by a couple of swings by Venus and three velocity scrubbing passages past mecury before the craft enters orbit in March 2011. April 18, 2005 status report from JHU. Extensive JHU FAQs page here. |
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Jul 27 2006, 02:03 AM
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If this has been mentioned already, pardon the repeat, but for those who do not have access to some of those hard-to-obtain journals, I just noticed the MESSENGER Publications page now has links to several of the references.
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