THEMIS, Multi-Spacecraft Geomagnetic Mission |
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THEMIS, Multi-Spacecraft Geomagnetic Mission |
 Feb 17 2007, 03:47 AM
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 Merciless Robot  Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602  |
Thought it might be appropriate to start this thread. The five-spacecraft THEMIS mission was almost launched today, but has been slipped to 17 Feb 1801-1819 EST (2301-2319 GMT) due to unfavorable weather.
This mission may yield some materially important findings. Its objective is to determine the cause of auroral "substorms", which can have an impact on Earth-orbiting spacecraft as well as some ground systems at nothern latitudes (like aircraft compasses in Alaska...yep, I've seen it). Here's the homepage: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/main/index.html -------------------- 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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Feb 17 2007, 11:10 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Launch occurred on schedule, but having trouble with the stream feed from NASA...vehicle is nearly in orbit as of 2309 GMT, awaiting separation of the sats.
-------------------- 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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Feb 17 2007, 11:13 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Orbit acheived, all nominal. Need another 54 minutes for next burn and sattelites release...stay tuned.
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Feb 17 2007, 11:16 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Am I the only one who finds it funny the mission is called THEMIS, just as a Mars Odyssey instrument?
Have they already started running out of meaningless acronyms so they have to start reusing them? -------------------- |
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Feb 18 2007, 12:17 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
5 spacecrafts have been released = Success
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Feb 18 2007, 09:52 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
QUOTE (ugordan @ Feb 18 2007, 12:16 AM)  Am I the only one who finds it funny the mission is called THEMIS, just as a Mars Odyssey instrument? Have they already started running out of meaningless acronyms so they have to start reusing them? A sort of compensation for the ones that take two names : Topex-Poseidon for exemple 
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Feb 19 2007, 02:30 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 31-October 06 Member No.: 1305 |
QUOTE (ugordan @ Feb 17 2007, 03:16 PM) Am I the only one who finds it funny the mission is called THEMIS, just as a Mars Odyssey instrument? Have they already started running out of meaningless acronyms so they have to start reusing them? I did a double take myself, when I heard of this particular mission. But I just found out that "THEMIS" isn't exactly meaningless, it's the name of the Greek goddess of Justice, usually represented as blindfolded, and holding a set of scales and a sword. |
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| Guest_John Flushing_* |
Feb 19 2007, 06:12 PM
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Themis stands for Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms.
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| Guest_John Flushing_* |
Jul 25 2008, 02:33 AM
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