[UPDATE] Some quick facts about Cassini's SOI burn

....We're about 5 minutes before an expected occultation of Cassini's
SOI telemetry by the F-ring. As we wait, here's some quick facts about
the burn:

* 78 minutes after engine start Cassini will be captured by Saturn
* 8 minutes later Cassini will clip Saturn's cloud tops by 19,980 km
* 9-19 minutes later SOI engine burn stops
* 8 hours later first images at noon UTC (5am PDT - 8am EDT)

OM

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his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:04:35 -0500, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote:

...We're about 5 minutes before an expected occultation of Cassini's
SOI telemetry by the F-ring. As we wait, here's some quick facts about
the burn:

....Correction. That should have been the A-ring, not the F-ring. I get
an F for accuracy, but an A for effort, natch.

OM

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"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

OM wrote:

...We're about 5 minutes before an expected occultation of Cassini's
SOI telemetry by the F-ring. As we wait, here's some quick facts about
the burn:

* 78 minutes after engine start Cassini will be captured by Saturn
* 8 minutes later Cassini will clip Saturn's cloud tops by 19,980 km
* 9-19 minutes later SOI engine burn stops
* 8 hours later first images at noon UTC (5am PDT - 8am EDT)

I understand the Cassini post-SOI HGA downlink/playback to DSS-63 is
now in progress, with the ISS NAC pointed at Saturn.

And before one of s.s.h. many esteemed members asks: "Who the hell are
you and where did you come from?", my understanding is based on viewing
a real time plot from a secure Cassini workstation.

--


Alex R. Blackwell
University of Hawaii

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:17:59 -1000, "Alex R. Blackwell"
wrote:

I understand the Cassini post-SOI HGA downlink/playback to DSS-63 is
now in progress, with the ISS NAC pointed at Saturn.

....Sweeet! *You* get to provide us updates now :-)

And before one of s.s.h. many esteemed members asks: "Who the hell are
you and where did you come from?", my understanding is based on viewing
a real time plot from a secure Cassini workstation.

....Hold on, I'm sending you info on GoToMyPC so I can see what you're
seeing :-) :-) :-)

OM

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"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 04:30:16 -0500, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote:

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:17:59 -1000, "Alex R. Blackwell"
wrote:

I understand the Cassini post-SOI HGA downlink/playback to DSS-63 is
now in progress, with the ISS NAC pointed at Saturn.

...Sweeet! *You* get to provide us updates now :-)

And before one of s.s.h. many esteemed members asks: "Who the hell are
you and where did you come from?", my understanding is based on viewing
a real time plot from a secure Cassini workstation.

...Hold on, I'm sending you info on GoToMyPC so I can see what you're
seeing :-) :-) :-)

OM


Yeah, what he said :-) And where' them damn color pictures from
twelve thousand miles? :-)

Alex R. Blackwell wrote:



And before one of s.s.h. many esteemed members asks: "Who the hell are
you and where did you come from?", my understanding is based on
viewing a real time plot from a secure Cassini workstation.


Yours? Or did you sit down at someone else's while they were busy
writing a book or something?
Oh, wait a minute...I just checked up on you...you're the Big Space
Kahuna from the University of Hawaii, aren't you?
Well, Space Surfer Boy...we don't put the dog on for no one round here! :-)

Pat

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 08:44:23 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Well, Space Surfer Boy...we don't put the dog on for no one round here! :-)

....Mary? Time to spank this boy.

OM

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"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:08:38 -0500, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote:

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 08:44:23 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Well, Space Surfer Boy...we don't put the dog on for no one round here! :-)

...Mary? Time to spank this boy.

I can't, I'm laughing too hard.

Besides, you've got to be careful around Pat or you'll find yourself
appearing in one of his extravaganzas and not, perhaps, in a manner
consonant with your dignity. I have no desire to be immortalized in
that way.

Mary

--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer

On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 19:28:11 -0700, Mary Shafer
wrote:

Besides, you've got to be careful around Pat or you'll find yourself
appearing in one of his extravaganzas and not, perhaps, in a manner
consonant with your dignity. I have no desire to be immortalized in
that way.

....I don't have to worry about that any more. Pat got a corncob stuck
up his butt again, and he's killfiled me. Ah well, I figure he'll
either come to his senses soon, or someone'll have to go to the
nonexistent state of North Dakota and hang him by his feet until the
blonde rushes back to his head.

OM

--

"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr