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[IMG]http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/epoxi/20090526/Epoxi-standalone-640.jpg[/IMG]
[I]Artist's concept of Epoxi spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL [/I]
[B]May 28, 2010[/B]
PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Deep Impact/Epoxi spacecraft has successfully performed a trajectory correction maneuver to refine its orbit prior to an upcoming Earth flyby June 27. The maneuver, along with the Earth flyby, will place the spacecraft on a trajectory to fly past comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4.
The maneuver began at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST) today, when the spacecraft fired its engines for 11.3 seconds. While the burn changed the spacecraft's velocity by only 0.1 meters per second (less than a quarter mile per hour), that was all the mission's navigators requested to set the stage for an Earth gravity assist on June 27.
"While it was a small burn, it was a big step in getting us to Hartley 2," said Tim Larson, project manager of NASA's Epoxi mission. "Humanity's fifth close-up view of a comet is less than five months away."
Epoxi is an extended mission of the Deep Impact spacecraft. Its name is derived from its two tasked science investigations -- the Deep Impact Extended Investigation (DIXI) and the Extrasolar Planet Observation and Characterization (EPOCh).
The University of Maryland is the Principal Investigator institution. JPL manages Epoxi for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The spacecraft was built for NASA by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo.
For information about Epoxi, visit [url]http://www.nasa.gov/epoxi[/url].
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Source: [url]http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-185&rn=news.xml&rst=2620[/url]
Sorry if the title is misleading, but firing the ship's engines is called a 'burn'.
We should be going to the bottom of our earth, Not the place that never ends
Aw, I thought something caught fire then got fucked by a comet :saddowns:
then comet suicide
They're so smart. They aligned a fucking ORIBITNG object with a COMET.
How the hell did they do that?
[QUOTE=166291;22233641]They're so smart. They aligned a fucking ORIBITNG object with a COMET.
How the hell did they do that?[/QUOTE]
Geometry. Lots and lots of geometry.
[QUOTE=Faunts;22233627]then comet suicide[/QUOTE]
I wish to hit you.
[QUOTE=Best4bond;22233613]We should be going to the bottom of our earth, Not the place that never ends[/QUOTE]
Let's go to a place where the temperature is so hot that nothing valuable can live down there! We will waste our money discovering what we basically understand, instead of reaching off our planet and perhaps in hopes spread our species throughout space.
Let's dig to the core :downs:!
not to mention the fact we'd probably end up fucking something up in plate techtonics if we drilled to the core
though it would be cool to get some samples from near the earth's centre, because there's bound to be some material there that hasn't seen daylight since the earth formed from the solar nebulae.
[QUOTE=Best4bond;22233613]We should be going to the bottom of our earth, Not the place that never ends[/QUOTE]
I don't think that may be a good idea.
[img]http://i47.tinypic.com/52hys3.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=hl2poo;22235562]I don't think that may be a good idea.
doctor who image[/QUOTE]
Actually I was thinking this:
[img]http://z.about.com/d/homevideo/1/0/_/4/the_core_DVD_HilarySwank.jpg[/img]
I thought it was a good movie :saddowns:
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;22235867]I thought it was a good movie :saddowns:[/QUOTE]
I'm with you dude.
Nasa really sucks at graphic design
[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;22236575]Nasa really sucks at graphic design[/QUOTE]
I was thinking the same, You'd think that they could put a little more effort into it, it looks like something out of a 90's 3D music video :saddowns:
[QUOTE=Best4bond;22233613]We should be going to the bottom of our earth, Not the place that never ends[/QUOTE]
only thing there is china where everyone is short, and the place is upside down
[QUOTE=Rooster Assassin;22239387]I was thinking the same, You'd think that they could put a little more effort into it, it looks like something out of a [B]90's 3D music video[/B] :saddowns:[/QUOTE]
I'm blue, da ba dee, da ba dai
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc[/media]
[QUOTE=166291;22233641]They're so smart. They aligned a fucking ORIBITNG object with a COMET.
How the hell did they do that?[/QUOTE]
Glorious Mathematics.
[URL=http://www.cubeupload.com][IMG]http://www.cubeupload.com/files/f8980016589809743b5dea751.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
[QUOTE=Best4bond;22233613]We should be going to the bottom of our earth, Not the place that never ends[/QUOTE]
Space probably ends eventually.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;22235867]I thought it was a good movie :saddowns:[/QUOTE]
it was OK.
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[QUOTE=radioactive;22242359]Space probably ends eventually.[/QUOTE]
It repeats. You go across the universe, you wind up back where you started eventually. At least I heard that from somewhere :confused:
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;22242388]
It repeats. You go across the universe, you wind up back where you started eventually. At least I heard that from somewhere :confused:[/QUOTE]
So it's like a planet. So our planet is in a planet? Any what if that's in a bigger planet?
[img]http://ipadapplications.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/2824685.jpeg[/img]
Space is huge.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;22242388]It repeats. You go across the universe, you wind up back where you started eventually. At least I heard that from somewhere :confused:[/QUOTE]
Actually, there are more theories.
That specific theory is based on the idea that the cosmos is closed.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;22242388]
It repeats. You go across the universe, you wind up back where you started eventually.[/QUOTE]
Pac-man IRL
It's pretty damn incredible that .1 m/s of velocity change is enough to set a course that precise.
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