Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Launch, Launch through Orbit Discussion |
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Launch, Launch through Orbit Discussion |
 Jun 17 2009, 11:55 PM
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Heard on NASA TV that during the impact of LCROSS and it's lil' projectile, there will be live feed from the LCROSS mission control room, allowing us to see what's going on in real time. Anyone know where the link to that might be?
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Jun 18 2009, 03:10 AM
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QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Jun 17 2009, 03:55 PM)  Anyone know where the link to that might be? You realize that the LCROSS impact doesn't happen until October, right? -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Jun 18 2009, 03:56 AM
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The rocket Centaur along with the shepherding space LCROSS will be traveling many elongated loops around Earth and Moon (going from South to North of Moon at 70 degree angle inclination) until the impact (both in a interval of 4 minutes, First Centaur and later LCROSS) at approximately October 8, 2009.
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Jun 18 2009, 07:05 AM
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QUOTE (kenny @ Jun 17 2009, 08:23 PM) Forget the previous, this is better... we're looking at Thurs eve 5.12 pm EDT, 00:12am Friday UK summer time 5.12pm Eastern is 10.12pm UK time. I'm not sure where you're getting 00:!2 frmo. |
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Jun 18 2009, 08:49 AM
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You're right, I was confusing my a.m's and p.m's. The current schedule still seems to be 5.12pm Thurs EDT, 10:12pm UK summer time. Apologies.
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| Guest_Zvezdichko_* |
Jun 18 2009, 05:52 PM
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QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Jun 18 2009, 03:10 AM) You realize that the LCROSS impact doesn't happen until October, right? This is very important, thanks for this! LRO is actually going to travel just four days, while it will take a lot more time for LCROSS to reach the lunar surface. |
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Jun 18 2009, 06:12 PM
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Jun 18 2009, 06:27 PM
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It will take a while for LCROSS to arrive, but we do get some calibration images during the swingby in only a few days.
Phil -------------------- Sic Transit Gloria Lunari
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Jun 18 2009, 07:12 PM
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QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Jun 17 2009, 09:10 PM) You realize that the LCROSS impact doesn't happen until October, right? Haha, .... uh no. I didn't know that until rather late last night. I assumed that the two would go to the moon, and LCROSS would impact it shortly after LRO goes into oribt. But it makes sense now, about LCROSS having to spend some time to get the orbit right (and thus angle of impact). I haven't followed the LCROSS mission... *blush* -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Jun 18 2009, 07:57 PM
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QUOTE (SpaceListener @ Jun 18 2009, 04:56 AM) The rocket Centaur along with the shepherding space LCROSS will be traveling many elongated loops around Earth and Moon (going from South to North of Moon at 70 degree angle inclination) until the impact (both in a interval of 4 minutes, First Centaur and later LCROSS) at approximately October 8, 2009. Nominal impact date for a launch today (18th) is 9th Oct 11:30:00 UTCQUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jun 18 2009, 07:27 PM) It will take a while for LCROSS to arrive, but we do get some calibration images during the swingby in only a few days. One of the guys at ARC was kind enough to send me a snippet of STK pos/vel/attitude data for the LCROSS-Centaur lunar flyby trajectory for the 21st June launch opportunity. Here's a couple of Celestia renderings of the instrument calibration pointing sequence(about 1hr after closest approach). First clip is external view, second clip is instrument line-of-sight, both at 20x time accel.External view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfwDFdunJCQ Instrument line-of-sight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2BXCgCqvj8 Good luck LRO and LCROSS! (and keep that rain away for the next 3hrs !) Regards, Brian |
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Jun 18 2009, 08:07 PM
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cool! Thank you!
-------------------- 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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Jun 18 2009, 08:40 PM
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Read somewhere that Hubble will point towards the impact as well. Great photo opportunity!
And, I'm glad LRO will settle the silly conspiracy theories on the Apollo landings. |
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Jun 18 2009, 08:45 PM
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QUOTE (brellis @ Jun 18 2009, 09:40 PM) And, I'm glad LRO will settle the silly conspiracy theories on the Apollo landings. I hope so, but I think it won't. The hardcore conspiracists will now say that the images are Photoshopped. Even if you take them to the lunar surface, they will still say it's fake: They will claim that the footprints were taken later when the technology was better. |
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Jun 18 2009, 09:09 PM
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QUOTE (Zvezdichko @ Jun 18 2009, 08:45 PM) Even if you take them to the lunar surface, they will still say it's fake: They will claim that the footprints were taken later when the technology was better. No, they won't believe you've actually taken them to the moon and show you this as proof: Astro Smurf |
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Jun 18 2009, 09:15 PM
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One of the deniers is busy flooding the Google Lunar X Prize forum with nonsense. (Hi, Sock!) There the obvious retort is - join a team and go see for yourself. But it's a waste of time. Not because they can't be convinced - because they know it's a lie from day one. The folk at the top don't believe it. They have other agendas.
Phil -------------------- Sic Transit Gloria Lunari
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