What's Up With Hayabusa? (fka Muses-c) |
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What's Up With Hayabusa? (fka Muses-c) |
 Apr 15 2005, 05:03 AM
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 Director of Galilean Photography  Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93  |
Anyone seen any recent updates on this? Last I saw was in December timeframe. We're so spoiled with MER now, I look at the MUSES-C website and just shake my head...
-------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Apr 15 2005, 06:40 AM
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QUOTE (hendric @ Apr 15 2005, 05:03 AM) Anyone seen any recent updates on this? Last I saw was in December timeframe. We're so spoiled with MER now, I look at the MUSES-C website and just shake my head...  Thanks for the reminder! It seems to be happily on its way to rendezvous with Itokawa, according to this readable NASA site. Of course it's going to do more than just rendezvous, it'll land, take a sample and return to Earth! -------------------- |
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Apr 20 2005, 04:29 AM
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Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
QUOTE (cIclops @ Apr 15 2005, 06:40 AM) QUOTE (hendric @ Apr 15 2005, 05:03 AM) Anyone seen any recent updates on this? Last I saw was in December timeframe. We're so spoiled with MER now, I look at the MUSES-C website and just shake my head... Thanks for the reminder! It seems to be happily on its way to rendezvous with Itokawa, according to this readable NASA site. Of course it's going to do more than just rendezvous, it'll land, take a sample and return to Earth! Well, I guess no news is good news...I tried the Muses-C/Hayabusa website, but all it had was an outline, no details on instruments or a detailed mission timeline. -------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Apr 20 2005, 10:28 AM
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The word I've been seeing from abstracts in places like the recent LPSC meeting is that it is continuing to work absolutely perfectly -- which makes it stand out like a non-sick thumb in Japan's ill-fated recent space program. We'll see.
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Apr 20 2005, 10:37 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
People berrated the poor ESA Press efforst around Huygens landing. It was a PR masterstroke compared to the japanese space program
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Apr 20 2005, 02:16 PM
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Do you suppose the lack of news is a cultural thing?
-------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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Apr 21 2005, 03:12 AM
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 Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Hard to tell. Also, with the way things have been going, the lack of PR may be do to the poor results in the Japanese program in the last few years. If Hayabusa is a great success, it will be interesting to see how that is publicized.
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Apr 21 2005, 07:11 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 259 Joined: 23-January 05 From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 156 |
I'm having a slight flashback to the early Soviet space program...
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Apr 21 2005, 07:26 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
True, but outright denial and claims of sabatoge are on a different level than just not saying much.
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Apr 25 2005, 12:50 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 510 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Southeast Michigan Member No.: 209 |
The newest issue of Sky and Telescope (June 2005) has a nice writeup on Hayabusa, as well as a cover story on Deep Impact.
I'm a subscriber, so get mine a little early - I don't think it's available at newsstands yet. Lots of planetary stuff in this issue, it's probably a good one to pick up! -------------------- --O'Dave
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Apr 25 2005, 01:16 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
I will second that!
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Apr 28 2005, 04:35 PM
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Apr 28 2005, 07:27 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
See my comments in the Manned Spaceflight thread; Japan's space enterprises are sadly ineffectual.
Now, India... -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Jun 13 2005, 03:59 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 90 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 289 |
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Jun 13 2005, 08:09 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
That's one hard place they're in - I hope they succeed...
-------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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