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Post by Baroque on Nov 17, 2014 19:57:24 GMT 1
Airbus to design and build the service module for NASA's Orion capsule. It will be based on the Automated Transfer Vehicle currently in use. link
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Post by Linie 9 on Nov 18, 2014 1:53:37 GMT 1
Philea's hopping
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Nov 18, 2014 2:12:09 GMT 1
Post by Baroque on Nov 18, 2014 2:12:09 GMT 1
Check two posts before yours.
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Post by Linie 9 on Nov 18, 2014 2:22:30 GMT 1
Airbus to design and build the service module for NASA's Orion capsule. It will be based on the Automated Transfer Vehicle currently in use. linkA very good choice: the ATV is another piece of very good ESA work. I very well remember march 2008 when ATV-1 Jules Verne docked automatically on the ISS (watched via Internet). Not comparable to rosetta's approach but nearly I always thought: what a sh*t that there were only 5 spacecrafts planned and built, it can do much more.. The last one, ATV-5 ‘Georges Lemaître' docked on august 12th this year.
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Post by Linie 9 on Nov 18, 2014 2:27:23 GMT 1
Check two posts before yours. Sorry, I still don't like this board software and only jump to the last page. Works 98%
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Post by Baroque on Nov 18, 2014 5:34:57 GMT 1
Not comparable to rosetta's approach but nearly Well, Rosetta is a 90's/early 2000's tech and to see it doing what it did after surviving the harsh space environment for 10 years and with so much communications lag is still a brilliant achievement, one of the greatest unmanned exploration feats ever IMO. No one could have expected the target comet to turn out to be such an irregular shape with such a difficult terrain with mountains and cliffs, and surface textures. It was quite literally a shot in the dark. On the other hand, the engineers working with the ATV knew precisely what to expect given the vast understanding and experience in low earth orbit robotics (but this is not take anything away from the great work that went into it).
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Nov 18, 2014 18:11:47 GMT 1
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Post by Baroque on Nov 18, 2014 18:11:47 GMT 1
While ESA's Rosetta mission has passed by its most difficult stages, NASA is getting ready to bring their own deep sleeper, the New Horizons probe to Pluto, out of its final hibernation phase in preparation for next summer's flyby. Let's hope everything goes to plan. It will wake up on Dec. 6th and start its science missions on January 15th. news.yahoo.com/nasa-pluto-probe-wake-hibernation-next-month-163537445.html
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Dec 8, 2014 0:00:57 GMT 1
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