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Initial parking orbit is good - at last we're off the ground
During ascent I suddenly thought "woh, if this doesnt work - MSL is going to suffer a lot" - and got rather nervous  Not out of the woods yet- another centaur burn to go - and actually, I was suprised to hear that the centaur put the parking orbit perigee about 6 nm off target - that's a lot. Doesnt really matter that much I'd have though - it IS only a parking orbit after all, and it'll probabyl be made up on the second burn Doug
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Aug 18 2005, 08:48 PM
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I cranked up Orbiter - ran thru to September 7th - and with HiRise - Earth SHOULD be actually quite impressive.
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Aug 24 2005, 12:45 AM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 18 2005, 08:48 PM) I cranked up Orbiter - ran thru to September 7th - and with HiRise - Earth SHOULD be actually quite impressive. Doug  According to data on the current trajectory, on Sept. 7th the MRO-earth distance should be 8.8e6 km. So the earth would represent about 5.2 arcsec. A HiRISE pixel is 30cm at 300 km or 0.0036 arsec, so that would mean an earth image about 1454 pixels wide. Is that about what you get? If so, the image might look something like: http://marsrecon.com/hirisesim.html Joe -------------------- |
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djellison Mro Away Aug 12 2005, 12:06 PM
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Bert QUOTE (dvandorn @ Aug 12 2005, 12:25 PM)It wa... Aug 12 2005, 01:55 PM blobrana QUOTE (Bert @ Aug 12 2005, 06:25 PM)Very odd ... Aug 12 2005, 03:28 PM Ames QUOTE (blobrana @ Aug 12 2005, 04:28 PM)Yes,
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However, looking to HiRISE t... Aug 12 2005, 07:55 PM Bob Shaw QUOTE (dilo @ Aug 12 2005, 08:55 PM)Yes, good... Aug 12 2005, 08:18 PM DEChengst QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 12 2005, 02:06 PM)I wa... Aug 12 2005, 06:41 PM general QUOTE (DEChengst @ Aug 12 2005, 08:41 PM)You ... Aug 12 2005, 07:03 PM djellison Sounded like serving to me Surveying makes sense,... Aug 12 2005, 07:55 PM Redstone QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 12 2005, 07:55 PM)Soun... Aug 12 2005, 08:00 PM djellison 40,000 height x ( 20,000 Red + 4000 B/G + 4000 NIR... Aug 12 2005, 08:10 PM dilo QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 12 2005, 08:10 PM)40,0... Aug 12 2005, 10:23 PM BruceMoomaw Dvandorn, there is absolutely no way they could co... Aug 12 2005, 08:23 PM Bob Shaw Bruce:
You're dead right. Failure is not an o... Aug 12 2005, 08:31 PM dvandorn QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Aug 12 2005, 03:31 PM)Bruce... Aug 12 2005, 08:38 PM Bob Shaw QUOTE (dvandorn @ Aug 12 2005, 09:38 PM)Reall... Aug 12 2005, 08:53 PM Bob Shaw Some comments from Spaceflight Now:
'That fir... Aug 12 2005, 09:37 PM tedstryk QUOTE (dvandorn @ Aug 12 2005, 08:38 PM)Reall... Aug 12 2005, 09:42 PM BruceMoomaw That's "Glory global-warming mission... Aug 12 2005, 08:24 PM dvandorn Oh, I knew an "uprated MRO" with a much ... Aug 12 2005, 08:34 PM Bob Shaw other Doug:
It's still a helluva data rate - ... Aug 12 2005, 08:36 PM Sunspot "It's going to take us another 16 months ... Aug 12 2005, 09:56 PM RNeuhaus Two months before arriving at Mars, On January, MR... Aug 12 2005, 10:15 PM deglr6328 Anyone catch PI Mike Meyer in an interview on the ... Aug 12 2005, 11:51 PM BruceMoomaw QUOTE (dvandorn @ Aug 12 2005, 08:34 PM)Oh, I... Aug 13 2005, 02:41 AM BruceMoomaw QUOTE (tedstryk @ Aug 12 2005, 09:42 PM)No, M... Aug 13 2005, 02:49 AM Roly Is there any chance the MRO is going to use lossy ... Aug 13 2005, 03:39 AM djellison They've already got 2:1 compression there - an... Aug 13 2005, 11:32 AM max This was from a University of Arizona news release... Aug 14 2005, 08:48 AM Roby72 A couple of days ago I installed GoogleEarth on my... Aug 14 2005, 10:27 AM jmknapp QUOTE (Roby72 @ Aug 14 2005, 10:27 AM)A coupl... Aug 17 2005, 12:51 PM spaceffm Hello,
I was very happy about this great liftoff a... Aug 15 2005, 12:41 AM chokai This may have already been asked yet but I was rea... Aug 15 2005, 01:21 AM RNeuhaus QUOTE (spaceffm @ Aug 14 2005, 07:41 PM)Hello... Aug 15 2005, 02:21 PM djellison The centaur will be in a solar orbit that just abo... Aug 15 2005, 07:42 AM spaceffm thx, indeed very slow.
I thought modern spacecraf... Aug 15 2005, 01:40 PM helvick QUOTE (spaceffm @ Aug 15 2005, 02:40 PM)thx, ... Aug 15 2005, 03:09 PM Marcel QUOTE (spaceffm @ Aug 15 2005, 01:40 PM)What ... Aug 17 2005, 01:44 PM djellison I'd say New Horizon's launch speed is abou... Aug 15 2005, 01:57 PM djellison Using orbiter I just managed an aero-capture It ... Aug 15 2005, 02:37 PM RNeuhaus QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 15 2005, 09:37 AM)Usin... Aug 15 2005, 02:49 PM djellison QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Aug 15 2005, 02:49 PM)Are y... Aug 15 2005, 03:05 PM RNeuhaus QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 15 2005, 10:05 AM)Hell... Aug 15 2005, 04:35 PM Bob Shaw QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 15 2005, 03:37 PM)Usin... Aug 15 2005, 07:20 PM djellison QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Aug 15 2005, 07:20 PM)PS Wh... Aug 15 2005, 07:23 PM tty QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 15 2005, 09:23 PM)I fo... Aug 15 2005, 07:42 PM djellison Start at www.orbitersim.com - then www.orbithangar... Aug 15 2005, 06:27 PM djellison "probe in orbit that monitors the atmosphere ... Aug 15 2005, 08:47 PM Jeff7 QUOTE So even at 1.2 m/pixel, coverage is only 1%.... Aug 17 2005, 09:46 PM dilo QUOTE (Jeff7 @ Aug 17 2005, 09:46 PM)Geez. We... Aug 17 2005, 10:34 PM remcook status report:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/views... Aug 18 2005, 08:33 AM Bob Shaw Spaceflight Now reports that the first test images... Aug 18 2005, 03:49 PM Bob Shaw QUOTE (jmknapp @ Aug 24 2005, 01:45 AM)Accord... Aug 24 2005, 10:48 AM dot.dk QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 18 2005, 08:48 PM)I cr... Aug 18 2005, 09:46 PM Gsnorgathon MSSS has posted a MARCI image of Earth, along with... Aug 20 2005, 08:29 AM Bob Shaw The next image from MARCI shows the full image, af... Aug 20 2005, 12:01 PM djellison Yuo - about the same phase as the Marci image - bu... Aug 24 2005, 10:58 AM jmknapp I wonder though how sharp it would really be, bein... Aug 24 2005, 01:28 PM mchan While waiting for HiRISE, the Messenger website ha... Aug 26 2005, 07:02 AM Marcel http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0508/25mrotcm1... Aug 26 2005, 07:51 AM djellison QUOTE (Marcel @ Aug 26 2005, 07:51 AM)http://... Aug 26 2005, 08:37 AM jmknapp Hi,
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