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Mercury Orbit Insertion, Events and Discussion leading up to MOI
Greg Hullender
post Nov 25 2009, 05:30 AM
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Excerpts from a new press release from the Messenger Team:

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Deep-Space Maneuver Positions MESSENGER for Mercury Orbit Insertion

The Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft completed its fifth and final deep-space maneuver of the mission today, providing the expected velocity change needed to place the spacecraft on course to enter into orbit about Mercury in March 2011. . . . today's maneuver began at 4:45 p.m. EST.
Mission controllers at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., verified the start of the maneuver about 12 minutes, 49 seconds later, when the first signals indicating spacecraft thruster activity reached NASA's Deep Space Network tracking station outside Goldstone, Calif.

"The team was well-prepared for the maneuver," said MESSENGER Mission Systems Engineer Eric Finnegan, of APL. "Initial data analysis indicates an extremely accurate maneuver execution. After sifting through all the post-burn data I expect we will find ourselves right on target."

--Greg

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- Greg Hullender   Mercury Orbit Insertion   Nov 25 2009, 05:30 AM
- - MarkG   Also from the release... "A 3.3-minute firin...   Dec 2 2009, 05:43 PM
- - maschnitz   Oh, that's easy - it's called the Oberth e...   Dec 2 2009, 07:32 PM
- - MarkG   I think the Oberth effect is only an oblique influ...   Dec 3 2009, 05:58 AM
- - brellis   Is there a bigger/better communication window at p...   Dec 3 2009, 07:42 AM
- - elakdawalla   I know someone I can ask this question -- let me s...   Dec 3 2009, 05:21 PM
- - elakdawalla   That was quick! This is from Jim McAdams, MES...   Dec 4 2009, 05:13 PM
|- - MahFL   "is required to place the spacecraft in the s...   Dec 4 2009, 06:35 PM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (MahFL @ Dec 4 2009, 10:35 AM) The ...   Dec 4 2009, 06:40 PM
|- - helvick   Well I can't speak for anyone else but posts l...   Dec 4 2009, 10:15 PM
- - Stu   One of the (many) joys of UMSF (and, it has to be ...   Dec 4 2009, 10:40 PM
- - remcook   I think it's more efficient at Mercury'...   Dec 5 2009, 11:07 AM
- - scalbers   A quick read tells me the perihelion option would ...   Dec 6 2009, 01:40 AM
|- - infocat13   QUOTE (scalbers @ Dec 5 2009, 08:40 PM) A...   Apr 7 2010, 05:50 PM
- - MarkG   That was a great reply and discussion about captur...   Dec 8 2009, 01:36 AM
- - Greg Hullender   Just a few weeks over one year away now, Messenger...   Feb 27 2010, 03:56 PM
- - Greg Hullender   A new post from the Messenger team, noting that we...   Mar 18 2010, 05:38 PM
- - Explorer1   And a new map of some of the newly named craters t...   Mar 18 2010, 07:41 PM
- - MarkG   Over the next few months, Mercury will appear to g...   Apr 6 2010, 05:39 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   I'd love it if someone could locate (or create...   Apr 7 2010, 05:54 PM
- - djellison   http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/the_mission/mo...andti...   Apr 7 2010, 06:21 PM
- - MarkG   Mercury is about to pass behind the Sun in its pur...   Jun 25 2010, 02:31 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   If it is the planet pursuing the craft, shouldn...   Jun 25 2010, 03:49 PM
|- - MarkG   QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Jun 25 2010, 08:49 A...   Jun 27 2010, 01:29 AM
- - Greg Hullender   Yesterday was the sixth anniversary of Messenger...   Aug 4 2010, 03:47 PM
- - stevesliva   Still looking for Vulcanoids. From Twitter: @MESS...   Aug 12 2010, 09:48 PM
- - MarkG   Messenger is pulling away from Mercury for the las...   Nov 19 2010, 07:47 AM
- - peter59   100 days before orbit insertion ! I hope that...   Dec 7 2010, 10:47 AM
- - peter59   One Year until Mercury Orbit Insertion ! Relax...   Dec 19 2010, 09:37 AM
- - tasp   It's just amazing they racked up over 4 billio...   Dec 19 2010, 04:14 PM
- - MarkG   Messenger is at its last Aphelion before capture i...   Jan 25 2011, 02:18 PM
- - Phil Stooke   35 million km away... I wonder if there will be an...   Jan 25 2011, 09:35 PM
- - MarkG   At Messenger's current distance from Mercury, ...   Feb 22 2011, 12:00 AM
- - jasedm   A little over three weeks to go! - have been g...   Feb 22 2011, 09:03 AM
- - stevesliva   Come on, Juno, you're late.   Feb 22 2011, 04:33 PM
|- - jabe   Been trying to find what the Delta-V is for the bu...   Feb 23 2011, 09:16 PM
||- - B Bernatchez   QUOTE (jabe @ Feb 23 2011, 04:16 PM) Been...   Feb 23 2011, 11:07 PM
||- - jabe   QUOTE (B Bernatchez @ Feb 23 2011, 11:07 ...   Feb 24 2011, 07:43 PM
|- - climber   QUOTE (stevesliva @ Feb 22 2011, 05:33 PM...   Feb 24 2011, 12:28 AM
- - machi   QUOTE (climber @ Feb 24 2011, 01:28 AM) A...   Feb 24 2011, 11:31 AM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (machi @ Feb 24 2011, 03:31 AM) Fun...   Feb 24 2011, 02:11 PM
- - machi   Updated   Feb 24 2011, 02:13 PM
- - SolarSystemRubble   Quiet here in this thread, less that 2 weeks from ...   Mar 7 2011, 02:53 AM
- - Astro0   Everyone's just cruisin' I guess!   Mar 7 2011, 02:58 AM
- - nprev   No news is good news now. I expect the future Mess...   Mar 7 2011, 04:55 AM
- - stevesliva   I thought we had established that Dione is totally...   Mar 7 2011, 05:00 AM
- - Bjorn Jonsson   There's not even a single planet/satellite/ast...   Mar 7 2011, 11:27 AM
- - JohnVV   QUOTE I thought we had established that Dione is t...   Mar 8 2011, 05:09 AM
- - volcanopele   Nope Rhea is boring. But it's monotonous surf...   Mar 8 2011, 05:24 AM
- - Astro0   I've been rummaging through some boxes and fou...   Mar 8 2011, 11:02 AM
- - Explorer1   I wonder what happens if you dial that number at t...   Mar 8 2011, 10:53 PM
- - Phil Stooke   I used to do that! For Voyager, not Mariner 1...   Mar 9 2011, 01:10 PM
|- - kwp   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 9 2011, 05:10 AM...   Mar 10 2011, 02:22 AM
|- - Hungry4info   QUOTE (kwp @ Mar 9 2011, 08:22 PM) ...do ...   Mar 10 2011, 07:32 AM
|- - kwan3217   QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Mar 10 2011, 01:32 A...   Mar 13 2011, 05:36 AM
- - nprev   I'd hardly call that a "morbid" inte...   Mar 10 2011, 02:41 AM
|- - DFinfrock   QUOTE (nprev @ Mar 10 2011, 02:41 AM) Kno...   Mar 11 2011, 12:59 AM
|- - gndonald   She's getting closer   Mar 12 2011, 03:04 PM
|- - As old as Voyager   QUOTE (DFinfrock @ Mar 11 2011, 12:59 AM)...   Mar 13 2011, 08:43 AM
- - tasp   The Pioneer Venus craft experienced large perturba...   Mar 10 2011, 02:06 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Ingenious idea but impossible! Remember, we d...   Mar 13 2011, 12:16 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Mar 13 2011, 07:16 A...   Mar 13 2011, 04:39 PM
- - nprev   If I understand things correctly (and I probably d...   Mar 13 2011, 04:52 PM
- - Explorer1   The sun-grazer and long-period comets are an extre...   Mar 13 2011, 07:13 PM
- - nprev   Yeah, basically. The stuff way out there is barely...   Mar 13 2011, 09:25 PM
- - siravan   If I have calculated correctly, you need a delta-V...   Mar 14 2011, 03:14 AM
- - MarkG   At the present time (this Sunday Evening), Mercury...   Mar 14 2011, 06:06 AM
- - dmuller   The cheapest (in terms of energy) way to get a spa...   Mar 14 2011, 08:54 AM
- - Astro0   Not far now! BTW - I love Eyes on the Solar...   Mar 15 2011, 04:16 AM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (Astro0 @ Mar 14 2011, 09:16 PM) No...   Mar 15 2011, 07:57 PM
- - mchan   The orientation of the day side is to the right vs...   Mar 15 2011, 04:43 AM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (mchan @ Mar 14 2011, 08:43 PM) EOT...   Mar 15 2011, 04:55 AM
|- - MarkG   QUOTE (mchan @ Mar 14 2011, 09:43 PM) The...   Mar 15 2011, 03:05 PM
|- - mchan   QUOTE (MarkG @ Mar 15 2011, 07:05 AM) Act...   Mar 16 2011, 03:54 AM
|- - Holder of the Two Leashes   QUOTE (mchan @ Mar 15 2011, 09:54 PM) Agr...   Mar 16 2011, 05:45 AM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (mchan @ Mar 15 2011, 08:54 PM) Agr...   Mar 17 2011, 03:10 AM
- - nprev   A minor milestone just occurred to me: Not only wi...   Mar 16 2011, 04:03 AM
- - Ron Hobbs   nprev, The milestone is that every planet known t...   Mar 16 2011, 04:44 AM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (Ron Hobbs @ Mar 15 2011, 08:44 PM)...   Mar 16 2011, 06:11 AM
- - nprev   And apologies for those who have seen this before,...   Mar 16 2011, 07:43 AM
- - tasp   nprev: The galaxy beckons.   Mar 16 2011, 12:27 PM


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