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Feb 27 2013, 06:57 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
been unsuccessfully trying googling for more info on the just selected Interplanetary NanoSpacecraft Pathfinder In Relevant Environment (INSPIRE) JPL CubeSat
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?rele...ml&rst=3706 hailed as "the world's first CubeSats to be launched beyond Earth orbit" (I think this title should go to the Japanese Shin'en, even if it never reported back to Earth). |
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Feb 27 2013, 07:17 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10194 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
I've been trying too but no luck yet. The image with the release hinted at a lunar flyby. Meanwhile Pam Clark and colleagues have been promoting ideas like this as well, specifically for the Moon.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Mar 14 2013, 09:45 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
some details of INSPIRE (not much, in reality)
http://www.space.com/20022-tiny-cubesat-sa...-for-space.html |
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Mar 20 2013, 04:25 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
US restarts PU-238 production ( well a test really ).
http://news.yahoo.com/u-restarts-plutonium...-013110181.html |
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Mar 20 2013, 06:37 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1585 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
Great to hear.
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Mar 29 2013, 08:37 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
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Jul 27 2016, 11:31 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Interesting infografic: http://i.imgur.com/lYdRVRi.png
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Jul 27 2016, 06:13 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
I was just going to comment on the potential revolution(s) introduced by the EELT and other large telescopes (2 others somewhat smaller in development; one of those in limbo) that will come online in the next 5-10 years.
EELT is supposed to provide a resolution of up to 0.001 arc seconds, which would mean, roughly speaking, that Kuiper Belt objects could be imaged with about the same resolution that HST imaged Ceres and Vesta, including ~100 pixel views of Pluto. This would also allow the separation of exoplanets from their host star for systems over 50 light years away, although the practical possibilities for observations will depend upon techniques for canceling out the star's glare. When 2 or 3 telescopes with comparable power are available, it should be a significant boost for astronomy, accomplishing some things that might be done with spacecraft now and some things that can't be done at all now. JWST will already be online and filling other niches. |
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Jul 28 2016, 07:30 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Yet another chart (from a tweet from Emily): https://twitter.com/elakdawalla/status/758726644341223424
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Oct 12 2016, 07:51 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
Maybe I'm the only one who's antsy, but the news last year stated explicitly that the next one or two Discovery mission finalists would be selected "by September 2016," which is now in the past. At the very least, the announcement is late, and presumably, the decision hasn't quite finalized yet, either.
I suppose that's all there is to say about it… a deadline was slipped without any public notice of why, what it might mean, or when the actual announcement will be. Maybe it's just an organization being late… Maybe the lack of an update says something about the program direction as a whole? |
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Oct 12 2016, 08:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2519 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
At the very least, the announcement is late... I suppose that's all there is to say about it… Yes, that's all there is to say about it. https://spaceflightnow.com/2016/09/07/nasa-...e-insight-woes/ "the head of the agency’s science division said this week NASA will still approve development of at least one new solar system probe in December." -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Dec 18 2016, 09:57 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
On November 29, Jim Green told a VEXAG meeting, "There’s an excellent chance we’ll be able to complete the [Discovery] selection and make that announcement before the end of December."
That combination of statement and audience doesn't necessarily imply that the selection will include a Venus mission, but it sounds like we'll find out soon enough. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3123/1 |
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Dec 19 2016, 03:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 706 Joined: 22-April 05 Member No.: 351 |
On November 29, Jim Green told a VEXAG meeting, "There’s an excellent chance we’ll be able to complete the [Discovery] selection and make that announcement before the end of December." I'm hearing from other sources that the announcement now may not come until the end of January. -------------------- |
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Dec 24 2016, 12:42 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 611 Joined: 23-February 07 From: Occasionally in Columbia, MD Member No.: 1764 |
I'm hearing from other sources that the announcement now may not come until the end of January. Some communications logistics indicators I've heard of point to early January. (NASA notifies the PIs by phone before the public announcement so press releases can be queued up etc., and so NASA needs to know how the PIs can be reached in a certain window). But things can change. |
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Dec 27 2016, 02:36 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 71 Joined: 12-December 16 Member No.: 8089 |
I'd also imagine the Christmas/New Year week would be an unideal time to make such an announcement, what with all the media noise that happens around this time of year. It'd be alot better to postpone it to January so that the announcement can get noticed more and stir more publicity for NASA.
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