New Horizons Mission to Pluto
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Studying the environment around the flyby object for 2019. Looking to see if Horizons will survive or rather the chances.
And using the telescope in a jumbo jet.
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/common/content/videos/podc...
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Mission/KBO-Chasers.php
Studying the environment around the flyby object for 2019. Looking to see if Horizons will survive or rather the chances.
And using the telescope in a jumbo jet.
Really looking forward to New Horizons next encounter. Probably the biggest blast of data in a short time at longest distance ever. This really has been an epic mission.
Hayabusa 2 will be back out of conjunction and about to do its best act yet if all goes to plan in the weeks ahead. Popping up a projectile to fire into the body, leaving behind a camera to film it and, as Sir Michael Palin would say, "Run away" to hopefully a safe place and then going back and scooping some virgin material up.
If they get the craft back to earth with a sample it will be the most incredible non manned space vehicle ever.
Hayabusa 2 will be back out of conjunction and about to do its best act yet if all goes to plan in the weeks ahead. Popping up a projectile to fire into the body, leaving behind a camera to film it and, as Sir Michael Palin would say, "Run away" to hopefully a safe place and then going back and scooping some virgin material up.
If they get the craft back to earth with a sample it will be the most incredible non manned space vehicle ever.
Gandahar said:
Really looking forward to New Horizons next encounter. Probably the biggest blast of data in a short time at longest distance ever. This really has been an epic mission.
Hayabusa 2 will be back out of conjunction and about to do its best act yet if all goes to plan in the weeks ahead. Popping up a projectile to fire into the body, leaving behind a camera to film it and, as Sir Michael Palin would say, "Run away" to hopefully a safe place and then going back and scooping some virgin material up.
If they get the craft back to earth with a sample it will be the most incredible non manned space vehicle ever.
They have done it before.Hayabusa 2 will be back out of conjunction and about to do its best act yet if all goes to plan in the weeks ahead. Popping up a projectile to fire into the body, leaving behind a camera to film it and, as Sir Michael Palin would say, "Run away" to hopefully a safe place and then going back and scooping some virgin material up.
If they get the craft back to earth with a sample it will be the most incredible non manned space vehicle ever.
Eric Mc said:
Gandahar said:
Really looking forward to New Horizons next encounter. Probably the biggest blast of data in a short time at longest distance ever. This really has been an epic mission.
Hayabusa 2 will be back out of conjunction and about to do its best act yet if all goes to plan in the weeks ahead. Popping up a projectile to fire into the body, leaving behind a camera to film it and, as Sir Michael Palin would say, "Run away" to hopefully a safe place and then going back and scooping some virgin material up.
If they get the craft back to earth with a sample it will be the most incredible non manned space vehicle ever.
They have done it before.Hayabusa 2 will be back out of conjunction and about to do its best act yet if all goes to plan in the weeks ahead. Popping up a projectile to fire into the body, leaving behind a camera to film it and, as Sir Michael Palin would say, "Run away" to hopefully a safe place and then going back and scooping some virgin material up.
If they get the craft back to earth with a sample it will be the most incredible non manned space vehicle ever.
They got a surface sample last time, this is far more complicated. See below.
Not only are they trying to do that, which means the orbiter has to move out of the way from the firing "gun" it dropped off, but it is also going to drop off a camera to film it!. Then hide, hopefully around the other side of the body. This could be tricky considering the low g and amount of projectiles they might make.
To quote
Hayabusa2 is a sample return mission of JAXA launched on 3 December 2014. Hayabusa2 is the successor of Hayabusa, which returned samples from the asteroid Itokawa to the Earth. Although the design of Hayabusa2 follows that of Hayabusa, the former is equipped with some new components. The small carry-on impactor (SCI) is one of those components. The SCI is a compact kinetic impactor designed to remove the asteroid surface regolith locally and create an artificial crater. One of the most important scientific objectives of Hayabusa2 is to investigate the chemical and physical properties of the internal materials and structures of the target body, asteroid Ryugu. Hayabusa2 will attempt to observe the resultant crater with some scientific instruments and to get samples from around the crater. High kinetic energy is required to create a meaningful crater, however, the impact system design needs to fit within strict constraints. Complicated functions, such as a guidance and control system, are not permitted. A special type of shaped charge is used for the acceleration of the impactor of the SCI in order to make system simpler. Using this explosion technique makes it possible to accelerate the impactor very quickly and to hit the asteroid without a guidance system. However, the impact operation will be complicated because the explosive is very powerful and it scatters high-speed debris at the detonation. This paper describes an overview of the SCI system, the results of the development testing and an outline of the impact experiment of the Hayabusa2 mission.
So far the Hayabusa2 mission has been an outstanding success, the success of 2018 considering everything in my viewpoint ( though in a low g envirnoment). I hope it continues into 2019.
Last test shot
https://confit.atlas.jp/guide/event-img/jpgu2014/U...
Of course this was in a high G environment.
Edited by Gandahar on Monday 31st December 20:21
Eric Mc said:
All seems to have gone well. It will be a while before the first results are in.
From the BBChttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-466...
Amazing how you can sharpen up 21 pixels.
I thought I would sharpen it a bit more
Holy Moly !
Hopefully they will get some good pictures, they are going to be close but the trajectory still is not perfectly pinned down and of course it is a fast encounter.
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