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Stardust-NExT, Revisiting Tempel 1

belleraphon1 View Member Profile	Feb 15 2011, 05:45 AM Post #76
Member Group: Members Posts: 713 Joined: 29-December 05 From: NE Oh, USA Member No.: 627	Nicely done Doug! Fun to watch simulation on 'Eyes on the Solar System'. Comet encounters so exciting... dust impacts galore.... can't wait for images. Have to nap for a few hours.... get up at 3:00am Eastern to see the fave five images and then out the door for work at 5:30am... NASA TV boring!? At least we have coverage! I applaud them. Craig

Explorer1 View Member Profile	Feb 15 2011, 05:48 AM Post #77
Member Group: Members Posts: 617 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Vancouver, British Columbia Member No.: 5221	3 Ice Tea bottles of fuel, haha! I was wondering how much they'd have left. Another layman's unit of measure! EDIT: Prop on someone's desk too! -------------------- To a body of infinite size there can be ascribed neither centre nor boundary... Thus the Earth no more than any other world is at the centre. -Giordano Bruno, 1584.

Feb 15 2011, 05:56 AM

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CosmicRocker View Member Profile	Feb 15 2011, 06:11 AM Post #79
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2164 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116	Yeah, demo II was terrific. Now, I know how to drive this thing. I might even have to watch some of those demos on the home page. -------------------- ...Tom (thinks he should use more emoticons)

Astro0 View Member Profile	Feb 15 2011, 06:17 AM Post #80
Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 2417 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615	Canberra DSN did a great job today. Two antennas on point for the encounter and a very tired but happy team Here's a pic of DSS43 in action from just a few minutes ago. http://twitpic.com/400llt

dilo View Member Profile	Feb 15 2011, 06:28 AM Post #81
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2248 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150	Stardust seems very low on the horizon, indeed! -------------------- - Marco -

Astro0 View Member Profile	Feb 15 2011, 06:33 AM Post #82
Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 2417 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615	Yep, we've been tracking all day, so a full horizon to horizon arc. We'll be handing over to the Madrid DSN shortly.

elakdawalla View Member Profile	Feb 15 2011, 07:07 AM Post #83
Bloggette par Excellence Group: Admin Posts: 3958 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454	Astro0, we don't say it enough: many many thanks to everyone at the DSN for making sure of the safe arrival of our precious data on Earth! -------------------- My blog - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.

ZLD View Member Profile	Feb 15 2011, 07:51 AM Post #84
Member Group: Members Posts: 114 Joined: 27-September 10 Member No.: 5458	In relation to my question, I wasn't curious if the comet would be centered or if we knew the orbit, I was curious how well the orientation of the comet would appear in actuality versus what was seen in the simulation (was it set up to look the same/similar as what will be seen in the images).

brellis View Member Profile	Feb 15 2011, 07:59 AM Post #85
Member Group: Members Posts: 660 Joined: 9-February 07 Member No.: 1700	Mr. Ellison, that was a great presentation!

djellison View Member Profile	Feb 15 2011, 08:02 AM Post #86
Administrator Group: Chairman Posts: 13227 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	We have a predicted trajectory for both spacecraft and comet - and then just like the spacecraft itself, Jon (lead dev for EotSS) programmed autonav - the spacecraft rotated and the mirror tracked to keep the comet in the middle of the field of view. And as for geometry/lighting etc - we did our best to match this : http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GgFZHEkOXh4/TVk-...0/planned_1.jpg : and I think we did quite well. There's an adjustment we've made here to the timing (15 seconds early) - so the 5 images will be more like -21sec to +51sec rather than centered on C/A And thanks for the kudos guys - a lot of fun tonight, and it seems like the technology for EotSS, and our faithful old spacecraft...has held up. We're in for a slightly longer wait for the images, but hopefully it'll be worth it.

djellison View Member Profile	Feb 15 2011, 08:08 AM Post #87
Administrator Group: Chairman Posts: 13227 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	QUOTE (JohnVV @ Feb 14 2011, 04:41 PM) my only gripe it the site is MS only It's not. It's Mac or PC. I'm sorry it doesn't work for Linux, but that's just a symptom of the Unity plugin not being available for Linux. For 0.3% of the audience, I can understand their reluctance to develop one.

Guest_Sunspot_*	Feb 15 2011, 08:52 AM Post #88
Guests	Whats going on? lots of people around monitors.....my sound has gone off on the NASA feed

Gsnorgathon View Member Profile	Feb 15 2011, 09:15 AM Post #89
Member Group: Members Posts: 242 Joined: 23-January 05 From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 156	First images! Tiny ones, so far. ~2,500km away.

Explorer1 View Member Profile	Feb 15 2011, 09:19 AM Post #90
Member Group: Members Posts: 617 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Vancouver, British Columbia Member No.: 5221	First taken, rather then 'planned five'. Unknown why this happened. -------------------- To a body of infinite size there can be ascribed neither centre nor boundary... Thus the Earth no more than any other world is at the centre. -Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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