GRAIL: New DISCOVERY mission to the moon |
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 Sep 10 2011, 05:13 PM
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The Delta rocket has had a completely successful launch from Florida, the two GRAIL spacecraft have deployed, they are communicating with earth, and their solar panels have deployed. Their propusion systems remain to be tested, but everything is looking good.
NASA has announced a kid contest to give names to each spacecraft. |
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Sep 11 2011, 06:15 AM
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HD videos of the launch, launch replays, and spacecraft separation can be seen using the following three links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1elSL-w1B8g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD9_AJD3u8I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKxiuk0MhA4 |
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Sep 11 2011, 06:59 AM
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I was in Florida for the launch ( demoing Eyes on the Solar System for the TweetUp and for the KSC Visitors Center ) and saw it go early today :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doug_ellison/...57627515484719/ VERY glad to have seen a Delta II launch - it's been the backbone of everything that excited me in exploration for 15 years! |
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Sep 11 2011, 06:40 PM
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QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Sep 10 2011, 06:13 PM)  NASA has announced a kid contest to give names to each spacecraft. Lance and Percy? |
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Sep 11 2011, 11:36 PM
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Beast and Beauty?
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Sep 12 2011, 02:39 AM
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Let's keep the name suggestions out of this thread, OK? It's not like anybody is listening to them here, and it'll just add a lot of noise to the forum. If you must discuss them, go to the chit-chat section. But an even better thing to do with your time would be to figure out how you could bring this contest to some kids who might not otherwise be given the opportunity! Maybe you can't enter or win, but maybe some kid that you mentor can.
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Dec 31 2011, 09:42 PM
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GRAIL-A LOI burn in progress; follow it at Eyes On The Solar System.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jan 2 2012, 01:17 AM
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Both A and B have successfully completed LOI:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/ne...il20120101.html Happy New Year! -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Jan 17 2012, 06:24 PM
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Ebb and Flow! Not bad...
My Dad went to Fulneck school near Leeds, UK, in the 1920s. He said there were two members of staff, a married couple I believe, called Ebenezer and Florence. Naturally the kids called them Eb and Flo. Not quite the same but close enough to slip in a wee anecdote! We now resume our scheduled programming. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jan 17 2012, 07:34 PM
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I would have gone for Isaac & Newton
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Jan 31 2012, 08:58 PM
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Ebb and Flow are busy adjusting their orbits... here's a timeline with some useful details, but not taking into account the possible extended mission.
Phil http://www.spaceflight101.com/grail-missio...n-timeline.html -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jan 31 2012, 09:46 PM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jan 31 2012, 12:58 PM) Ebb and Flow are busy adjusting their orbits... ...and it's rude for us to stare until they are both presentable. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Feb 1 2012, 10:27 PM
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... and the first video from Moonkam:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-031 This link has a still plus a link to the video) Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Mar 9 2012, 06:06 AM
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Mar 22 2012, 08:40 PM
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The mission has been extended to December, with the expecation now that the eclipse will be survivable.
Spaceflight Now article |
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