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paxdan
post Apr 20 2005, 11:22 AM
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Launched on August 3rd 2004, NASA's MESSENGER will become the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury.

News and updates are availbale via Johns Hopkins University MESSENGER website and the Kennedy Space Center's MESSENGER website.

There will be an earth flyby in August followed by a couple of swings by Venus and three velocity scrubbing passages past mecury before the craft enters orbit in March 2011.

April 18, 2005 status report from JHU. Extensive JHU FAQs page here.
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post Sep 20 2017, 03:36 PM
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Messenger data reveal more ice inside craters than previously thought.
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- paxdan   MESSENGER News Thread   Apr 20 2005, 11:22 AM
- - Explorer1   Estimated impact location: http://messenger.jhuap...   Apr 30 2015, 12:12 AM
- - Bjorn Jonsson   An amazingly successful mission that will be misse...   Apr 30 2015, 12:28 AM
- - Floyd   Thanks MESSENGER team. Great mission which has be...   Apr 30 2015, 11:10 AM
- - Astro0   Thanks to the entire mission team and thanks MESSE...   Apr 30 2015, 01:13 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   MESSENGER is on its way down now to join with its ...   Apr 30 2015, 03:34 PM
- - anticitizen2   Just passed aphermion. Four hours left. I had be...   Apr 30 2015, 03:38 PM
- - FOV   Thank you MESSENGER and team.   Apr 30 2015, 03:56 PM
- - Doug M.   For 4.3 billion years Mercury has spun through spa...   Apr 30 2015, 05:31 PM
- - Ron Hobbs   ... and so it is done! I thought this was a p...   Apr 30 2015, 08:25 PM
- - pitcapuozzo   MESSENGER's last shot of Mercury, acquired tod...   Apr 30 2015, 08:38 PM
- - mchan   And so the torch passes. To MESSENGER, hail and f...   Apr 30 2015, 09:13 PM
|- - SFJCody   Humanity has now added to the masses of every (non...   Apr 30 2015, 09:20 PM
|- - jasedm   QUOTE (SFJCody @ Apr 30 2015, 09:20 PM) H...   May 1 2015, 05:17 AM
- - belleraphon1   Last image reminds me of some of the final Ranger ...   Apr 30 2015, 11:44 PM
- - scalbers   Seems like without fuel it was destined to crash i...   May 1 2015, 05:40 PM
- - tanjent   Don't forget that humanity probably knocked so...   May 2 2015, 01:11 AM
- - Explorer1   New calculations of the impact site: http://messe...   Jun 7 2015, 02:28 AM
- - Explorer1   Missed a 'debriefing' summary of the whole...   Jul 6 2015, 05:53 AM
- - peter59   In such a large amount of data is possible to find...   Nov 3 2015, 06:05 PM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (peter59 @ Nov 3 2015, 10:05 AM) In...   Nov 3 2015, 09:29 PM
- - Explorer1   Wow! Nice work; looks almost like a landing pa...   Nov 3 2015, 07:50 PM
- - TheAnt   Data from Messenger taken during the very last day...   Mar 9 2016, 10:17 PM
- - TheAnt   After having an in-depth look at the data from the...   Jun 28 2016, 01:44 PM
- - JohnVV   QUOTE in such a large amount of data is possible t...   Jun 28 2016, 06:25 PM
- - Roman Tkachenko   Hi guys. I'm not sure if it's ok to post h...   Sep 2 2016, 03:05 PM
|- - john_s   Very nicely done! John   Sep 2 2016, 04:25 PM
- - nprev   That is incredibly beautiful work, Roman. Thank yo...   Sep 2 2016, 07:11 PM
- - TheAnt   Messenger data reveal more ice inside craters than...   Sep 20 2017, 03:36 PM
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