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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Jan 26 2007, 03:05 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 599 Joined: 26-August 05 Member No.: 476 |
Hayabusa is the little spacecraft that could. Broad ambitions, high risks, and relatively low funding. So go, Hayabusa, go!
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Jan 26 2007, 04:17 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Hayabusa is the little spacecraft that could. Hmmmm... she apparently failed in her primary mission, of getting a sample of the asteroid. She also failed to properly deploy her little lander. Half of her engines have failed, and it's still not a very good bet that she'll come home. If that's your idea of a vehicle that "can," remind me not to buy a used car from you... -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Jan 26 2007, 02:41 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Considering the fact that it was a test mission, and that it successfully reached the asteroid and returned a lot of fascinating data on a class of world never before observed at close range, I think the mission succeeded in a lot of ways. Its primary mission, however, wasn't science, but to test technology, and it definitely returned data that will help in designing future asteroid sample returns of this type. And it maybe, just maybe, will return with a tiny bit of material...unlikely, but not impossible. Also, had Minerva gone to its intended target, Nereus, which is somewhat larger than Itokawa, it would have had more forgiving margins (though still not very forgiving) on the issue of floating away.
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