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Genesis probe crash
I'm trying to get something positive out of this loss - did they observe
the fireball as planned? -- What have they got to hide? Release the ESA Beagle 2 report. Remove spam and invalid from address to reply. |
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"Jonathan Silverlight" wrote in message ... I'm trying to get something positive out of this loss - did they observe the fireball as planned? -- What have they got to hide? Release the ESA Beagle 2 report. Remove spam and invalid from address to reply. There's video of it tumbling through the sky and sitting in its little crater. You can catch it several times an hour on CNN Headline News. -- Stephen Home Page: stephmon.com Satellite Hunting: sathunt.com |
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In message , Stephen Fels
writes "Jonathan Silverlight" wrote in message ... I'm trying to get something positive out of this loss - did they observe the fireball as planned? -- There's video of it tumbling through the sky and sitting in its little crater. You can catch it several times an hour on CNN Headline News. It's on the web site http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/genesis/main/index.html. Looks really weird, because "tumbling" is the right word. You can't really tell how far away it was, but I bet they were tempted to try and catch it. But I know they were hoping for some real science from this "artificial meteor" as well as a spectacular show, much brighter than Venus. |
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Stephen Fels wrote:
"Jonathan Silverlight" wrote: I'm trying to get something positive out of this loss - did they observe the fireball as planned? http://www.spaceweather.com/ says that the entry was observed; the sire plans to post a video as soon as it's available. The NASA Genesis site is at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ge...ain/index.html The payload container was removed from the wreckage, but evidently it's going to be a while before anyone knows if any data can br recovered. There's video of it tumbling through the sky and sitting in its little crater. You can catch it several times an hour on CNN Headline News. I taped it live on a local newscast. A long-range camera picked up the capsule about four minutes before impact. Even then it was obvious that it was in trouble; it was flashing rapidly. (Not exactly the sort of tumbling satellite I watch for, but the similarity to a tumbling Cosmos booster was impossible to ignore.) I watched the tape frame-by-frame for the last moments of flight. The capsule's exterior didn't seem damaged before impact. My uninformed guess? The capsule was spinning at 50 RPMs during re-entry. I think that something inside broke loose and knocked the capsule out of balance; given that the capsule survived atmospheric entry, I'd guess that the damage occured after the high G-loads and heat loads ended. --Bill Thompson |
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