UMSF translate, improving on google Options

[ngunn]

Clearly we have members here who can translate to English from Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, French, Irish, Chinese, American etc. They all have subject knowledge too. Is it worth setting up a translation service here indepenent of google?

[elakdawalla]

Hmmm...this is a very good idea. It might be very useful to have a list, somewhere, of mission names in native languages and character sets, linked to Google searches for those results. For example:

Hayabusa 2: はやぶさ2

We could make this a sticky topic somewhere. Assistance in compiling such a list would be very welcome.

[4th rock from th...]

My experience is that Wikipedia is a good source of mission and instrument names.
I usually start with the english page and then check the different language versions.
Usually the english version is more complete, but the local versions are better for spellings, investigator or entity names, etc, etc.

Sometimes it helps to search by entities and dates. There are yearly or monthly reports that you can find as PDFs.
Got some stuff about japanese probes from the 1980s that way.