Voyager-1 at 100 AU!, A space milestone this month |
Voyager-1 at 100 AU!, A space milestone this month |
Aug 2 2006, 12:51 PM
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Nobody highlighted this and I didn't find any comment from Nasa/Voyager sites.
On August,11 the intrepid Voyager-1 probe will reach 14.960 billion Km from the Sun, one hundred times the average Earth-Sun distance! This event will be followed, after 16 days, by the 100AU from Earth reach. From astrophysical standpoint, first event is the most important but, I think, most people will be emotionally hit from the second one. So I would like to start a poll on this. -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Aug 15 2006, 04:49 PM
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The Voyager 2 launch window has been more demanding for the Titan 3E. Voyager 1 has been the less demanding and only because of this very reason the Centaur upper stage of this launch vehicle was able to compensate for a Titan second stage propellant leak and the resulting underspeed. Voyager 1 needed a pretty high delta v to target for the Saturn and Titan encounters (and occultations) after the Jupiter flyby.
I have been locking for more engineering details abaout Voyager, including TCMs. Never found much. Analyst |
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