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 Oct 5 2012, 05:19 AM
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Great news for the mission that just keeps giving!
-------------------- 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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Oct 5 2012, 07:33 AM
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Note the wording of the press briefing has no certainty whatsoever that any XXM might be approved. This burn simply preserves the option.
AFAIK - an XXM is yet to be approved.. |
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Dec 29 2012, 04:24 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1147 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
from the Facebook page of the Deep Impact Flyby, it looks like 5,246 images were taken last week, but I have no idea of what the target was...
any info? -------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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Dec 29 2012, 08:37 PM
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 Bloggette par Excellence Group: Admin Posts: 3966 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Just curious, did you try asking that question directly via Facebook?
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Dec 30 2012, 07:53 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1147 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
yep, and I got no meaningful answer
-------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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Dec 30 2012, 08:08 PM
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I don't know if my reply are any meaningful either, but was not the craft supposed to participate in the search for extrasolar planets?
The images taken could be part of EPOXI = Extrasolar Planet Observation and deep impact eXtended Investigation |
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Jan 5 2013, 11:20 AM
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Multiple new datasets from Deep Impact are available now. The most interesting is probably this one - dif-c-hriv-5-epoxi-hartley2-deconv-v1.0, which contains deconvoluted images of Hartley comet from HRI camera.
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Jan 5 2013, 01:33 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4517 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Very nice! The document folder contains JPG previews of the images for people who don't need the full data.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jan 7 2013, 05:28 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1147 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
more info on the 2002 GT flyby: Target Search & Selection for the DI/EPOXI Spacecraft
-------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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Jan 19 2013, 12:48 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4517 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
I don't know if this relates to Paolo's question above, but Deep Impact is now in an imaging/IR spectroscopy study of Comet ISON.
Phil http://www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag/meetings/jan2...earn_Larson.pdf -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jan 21 2013, 09:42 AM
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I wonder how much fuel the study of comet ISON will use. The 2020 NEO encounter is very tight on fuel as it is.
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Jan 21 2013, 10:01 AM
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Simply turning the spacecraft around can be accomplished by reaction wheels with no propellant expediture. Only wheel momentum unloading requires actual propellant to be used, but that has to be done periodically either way.
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Jan 21 2013, 06:02 PM
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QUOTE (monty python @ Jan 21 2013, 01:42 AM)  The 2020 NEO encounter is very tight on fuel as it is. Read the PDF linked to a few posts above - you will see that fuel isn't the problem for the 2020 encounter. Funding is. There's enough fuel to get it done. There's no funding for it. And - as ugordan says - just pointing the spacecraft requires, essentially, no fuel at all. |
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Feb 5 2013, 08:44 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1147 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
a DI video of comet ISON in mid-January
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv7x1H1b9MA...player_embedded Edit: and JPL release http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-047 -------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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