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Old May 10th 05, 07:29 AM
William R. Thompson
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This is excerpted from from "Jonathan's Space Report #547"
as posted by Jacques van Oene on
sci.space.news


"Alarmingly, it now seems that DART collided gently with
MUBLCOM, changing its orbit by a tiny amount. It's still not
clear if this was a physical collision, or the effect of DART's
rocket plume hitting MUBLCOM. Tracking data show MUBLCOM in a
739 x 749 km orbit prior to the rendezvous and 741 x 750 km
afterwards. In any case, this is bad news for the robotic
rendezvous tech, as you want to avoid unwanted collisions
above all - software should have aborted the approach if there was a
chance of hitting the target. After the mission,
DART's HAPS stage fired again on Apr 18 to lower its orbit to 394 x 746
km."
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Old May 10th 05, 07:33 AM
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William R. Thompson wrote:

Sorry--I bumbled into the "Send" key before adding the obvious:
There might be some debris associated with the collision/plume strike.

--Bill Thompson

This is excerpted from from "Jonathan's Space Report #547"
as posted by Jacques van Oene on
sci.space.news


"Alarmingly, it now seems that DART collided gently with
MUBLCOM, changing its orbit by a tiny amount. It's still not
clear if this was a physical collision, or the effect of DART's
rocket plume hitting MUBLCOM. Tracking data show MUBLCOM in a
739 x 749 km orbit prior to the rendezvous and 741 x 750 km
afterwards. In any case, this is bad news for the robotic
rendezvous tech, as you want to avoid unwanted collisions
above all - software should have aborted the approach if there was a
chance of hitting the target. After the mission,
DART's HAPS stage fired again on Apr 18 to lower its orbit to 394 x
746 km."

 




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