KAGUYA lunar explorer (aka SELENE) |
KAGUYA lunar explorer (aka SELENE) |
Sep 13 2007, 11:39 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/live/index_e.html
It's there somewheres.... Sorry This is it: http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/live/weblive_e.html No word if Lipovitan will sponsor coverage. -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Sep 13 2007, 11:48 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
...thanks, Ly, and wouldn't you know it: I just found it & was coming back to post that same link! (I gotta be less lazy...)
Coverage should start approx. 45 minutes from now (currently 2349 GMT 13 Sept). EDIT: Kaguya coverage is live now here! Can't understand a syllable except for "hai", but GO KAGUYA!!!!! First time I've missed the ex in awhile...she could've translated! EDIT2: Wow...they just showed a shot of what appeared to be a crowd of people in a shopping mall or something watching the coverage on a big TV...seems as if there's a lot of domestic public interest, which is always great to see! EDIT3: She's up!!! SWEET launch so far...most beautiful launch site ever on a wave-breaking beach, and the high temp (29 deg C) plus undoubtedly high humidity produced this amazing shockwave donut of condensation around the payload fairing that stretched & transformed into a cylinder during max Q...really remarkable, never seen the like before. That H-2 has some serious juice! External cam showed the horizon of the Earth briefly, then cut to commentators...so far, running sweet & true. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Sep 14 2007, 01:42 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
It's up! I blogged what I could from the English translation.. Now I have to go put the baby to bed. If anybody sees anything new on the status can you please please post it here?
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Sep 14 2007, 02:19 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 408 Joined: 3-August 05 Member No.: 453 |
10:20 PM EDT: Payload separation!
Airbag |
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Sep 14 2007, 02:34 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
...and that's it for the commentary. Nothing new on the launch site home page yet. Cherilynn has promised me updates and pictures from Tokyo, though, so hopefully tonight or tomorrow I'll have more...
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Sep 14 2007, 02:44 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 408 Joined: 3-August 05 Member No.: 453 |
Got to love that low-tech approach to illustrating the launch vehicle's progress on the broadcast - a hand held clipboard with stickers for each phase (e.g. 1st stage separation) that were peeled away one by one!
Airbag |
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Sep 14 2007, 02:54 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
That was pretty funny. It was a bit Python-esque -- for reasons I can't quite explain, it reminded me of the French Sheep sketch.
And when they were outside, with the hardhats, it reminded me of Japanese game shows -- I kept expecting one of the men to suddenly have to go through some "challenge." There's something about Japan that gets utterly lost upon translation to English. Beyond foreign, it's alien. I know there are some Japanese readers of this forum -- I would love to know from one of them if Americans appear inexplicable and alien to you. And -- are Europeans less so? Or more so? --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Sep 14 2007, 04:05 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Anybody know what the little orange bobbing head guy on the bottom left was? Jaxa Mascot? Generic Cute Japanese Icon? -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Sep 14 2007, 08:15 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 22 Joined: 24-April 07 From: Chiba, JP Member No.: 2020 |
[img]Anybody know what the little orange bobbing head guy on the bottom left was? Jaxa Mascot? Generic Cute Japanese Icon? Nohohon zoku. ... Ah, my English is poor to explain it. See Wikipedia, sorry. |
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Guest_Zvezdichko_* |
Sep 14 2007, 09:33 AM
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When are these two orbits going to be completed and when the lunar injection burn is going to occur?
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Sep 14 2007, 10:05 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 648 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Subotica Member No.: 384 |
Is there a replay of that spectacular launch somewhere?
-------------------- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Jules H. Poincare My "Astrophotos" gallery on flickr... |
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Guest_Zvezdichko_* |
Sep 14 2007, 10:14 AM
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Yes, it's available on nasaspaceflight.com
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Sep 14 2007, 10:22 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 18-April 05 From: Córdoba, Spain Member No.: 246 |
Hi!
This is the video of the JAXA program for the Selene launch: http://www.sondasespaciales.com/public/arc...7%20-%20Jai.asf (311 MB - ASF) The flag: 0h5m30sec Launch with a looooooong countdown: 0h47m (poor quality) Launch Replay: 1h36m (good quality) Hai-counter now in: 3827 |
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Sep 14 2007, 02:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 279 Joined: 19-August 07 Member No.: 3299 |
Will Kaguya arrive at Moon within 3 days? Haven't found the Kaguya's mission timing.
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Sep 14 2007, 03:18 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 163 Joined: 16-March 05 From: Oakville, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 201 |
from Spaceflightnow article
QUOTE SELENE will fire its largest thruster to propel itself toward the moon after completing two-and-a-half circuits around Earth. The probe will slip into an initial elliptical polar orbit around the moon about 20 days after launch, according to JAXA spokesman Satoki Kurokawa. I can't wait for the HD camera pics of earth rise cheers jb |
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