KAGUYA lunar explorer (aka SELENE) |
KAGUYA lunar explorer (aka SELENE) |
Sep 14 2007, 03:47 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 52 Joined: 24-November 05 From: Tokyo Member No.: 571 |
No word if Lipovitan will sponsor coverage. In the unofficial webcast presented by CASTY, I saw Dr. Terazono (known as the Hayabusa Lipovitan-D blogger) was drinking a bottle of Lipovitan-D Since Lipovitan-D sensation at UMSF.com in Hayabusa touchdown, this drink unofficially emblematizes Japanese space missions. Here I show a capture from the CASTY unofficial webcast in the launch of SOLAR-B/Hinode last year; you can see Dr. Terazono was drinking it http://photo.mywiki.jp/hayabusafan/5601/20...09-4caca34e.jpg |
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Sep 14 2007, 04:08 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 52 Joined: 24-November 05 From: Tokyo Member No.: 571 |
Will Kaguya arrive at Moon within 3 days? Haven't found the Kaguya's mission timing. FYI, the time format is in UTC. Stay tuned Lift-off 14 Sept 01:31:01 SSB Ignition 14 Sept 01:31:11 SSB Burnout 14 Sept 01:32:09 SSB Jettison 14 Sept 01:32:31 SRB-A Burnout 14 Sept 01:32:56 SRB-A Jettison 14 Sept 01:33:06 Fearing Jettison 14 Sept 01:35:26 MECO 14 Sept 01:37:41 1st/2nd stages seperation 14 Sept 01:37:49 SEIG 1 14 Sept 01:37:55 SECO 1 14 Sept 01:43:08 SEIG 2 14 Sept 02:11:34 SECO 2 14 Sept 02:15:03 SELENE Seperation 14 Sept 02:16:33 Sun Acquisition 14 Sept 02:21:01 Solar Array Paddle Deploy 14 Sept 03:31:01 3-Axes Control 14 Sept 03:36:01 HGA Deploy 14 Sept 07:09:01 Communication Link Establishment 14 Sept 08:26:01 Injection Error Correction Manueuver 14 Sept 20:11:01 Adjustment Maneuver of Revolution Period 19 Sept 00:46:01 LOI Conditions Adjusting Maneuver 30 Sept 18:56:01 Lunar Polar Orbit Insertion (LOI) 3 Oct 21:01:01 Relay Sat Release 9 Oct 00:46:01 VRAD Sat Release 14 Oct 05:37:01 Observation Phase 21 Oct 10:27:01 |
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Sep 14 2007, 04:15 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 279 Joined: 19-August 07 Member No.: 3299 |
Thanks Nop for good detail.
I see that Kaguya will travel slower to Moon than Apollo. This is for the cheapest travel to Moon without has to much acceleration and breaking. Anyway, the time will fly fast. |
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Sep 14 2007, 05:09 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
thanks nop and subaru for the inside scoop -
and godspeed, princess! -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Sep 14 2007, 05:24 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535 |
QUOTE Will Kaguya arrive at Moon within 3 days? Haven't found the Kaguya's mission timing. Kaguya will take around 19 days to reach the Moon, 37 days till it settles into its final, 100 km high orbit. -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
http://human-spaceflight.blogspot.com |
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Sep 15 2007, 04:17 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535 |
HIGH GAIN ANTENNA DEPLOYMENT (In-flight image taken of HGA!)
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/09/20070915_kaguya_e.html SOLAR PANEL DEPLOYMENT (In-flight image taken of "Paddle"!) http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/09/20070915_kaguya-2_e.html -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
http://human-spaceflight.blogspot.com |
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Sep 15 2007, 06:49 AM
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I see that Kaguya will travel slower to Moon than Apollo. This is for the cheapest travel to Moon without has to much acceleration and breaking. Anyway, the time will fly fast. I think we are going to a wrong route if we compare Apollo and Kaguya. Yet, managers plan to take "Earthrise photos" and these pictures will be as spectacular as the "Earthrise photo" taken by Apollo 8 astronauts. |
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Sep 15 2007, 03:26 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
I expect the images (and HDTV movies) of such scenes to be even more spectacular than what was possible in the late 1960s. Of course, this all depends on how compressed, well exposed etc. the imagery will be. I'm looking forward to that.
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Sep 16 2007, 08:17 AM
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Any news on the first manuevre?
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Sep 16 2007, 02:14 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 52 Joined: 24-November 05 From: Tokyo Member No.: 571 |
Any news on the first manuevre? According to releases (in Japanese, sorry), http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/topics/pd..._0030_vc1_j.pdf http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/topics/pd..._0227_va1_j.pdf injection error correction maneuver (delta-Vc1) was successfully executed. Apogee 232,782km Perigee 956km Period 4d23h37m Next maneuver (Delta-Va1) was scheduled on 8:00am Sept 16 (JST). We've heard no news about it yet, but no news must be a good news. I hope her success |
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Sep 17 2007, 05:38 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535 |
Where is Kaguya? "It is in the position of present KAGUYA."
http://www.selene.jaxa.jp/en/communication/position_e.htm Makes you appreciate JPL's Solar System Simulator a lot more. -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
http://human-spaceflight.blogspot.com |
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Sep 17 2007, 06:08 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3241 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
nop, do you know if Kaguya will acquire approach imagery as it nears the Moon? Would be interesting to see how image products will looks from this spacecraft with science target, not hardware (though those images are pretty cool, don't get me wrong).
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Sep 17 2007, 02:12 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 52 Joined: 24-November 05 From: Tokyo Member No.: 571 |
nop, do you know if Kaguya will acquire approach imagery as it nears the Moon? Would be interesting to see how image products will looks from this spacecraft with science target, not hardware (though those images are pretty cool, don't get me wrong). Sorry, volcanopele, I have no information about it. But I'm sure that JAXA will release some moon images on the way, as past spacecrafts (Hiten, Nozomi and Hayabusa) have provided us a lot of images when approaching the moon, the earth and the asteroid. Stay tuned for further updates. FYI, the maneuver Delta-Va1 was successfully executed yesterday and now Kaguya is fine. |
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Sep 17 2007, 08:41 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10227 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Do we have any information about end of mission scenarios? At least the main spacecraft, and eventually the subsatellites, should impact as the orbits evolve and are not maintained. The subsatellites are probably not controllable to target an impact as SMART-1 was targeted, but the main spacecraft could be controlled.
I only live for points on a map. 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 PDF: 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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Sep 17 2007, 08:58 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
I only live for points on a map. That's good, you should put that in your sig. -------------------- |
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