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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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 Posted - 05/27/2008 : 11:48:54
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The Phoenix mission...
Last time around, the lander was lost.
This time, I stayed up in the middle of the night to follow the landing via NASA TV.
When someone at mission control were calling out altitude, "eighteen hundred meters" then a second later "seventeen hundred meters" I got a chill thinking It's descending awfully fast...
But the deceleration continued, and as new altitudes were called out, it was aparent that the landing-thrusters were working. I looked out through my window at a nearby several story house to get a feel for distance, and imagined the lander at the appropriate height in order to judge its landing speed.
It really was a soft landing!
And what a roar of cheers coming from Mission Control. 1/4 degree axial tilt, and almost perfectly east-west alignment. The Mission Director said in the interview that followed that the landing went better than he had ever dreamt of.
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 05/27/2008 : 12:06:04 [Permalink]
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Yeah, that was good stuff.
Of course, the telemetry they were getting from the lander was about 15 minutes old. No way to do anything but look at it and hope you programmed everything right beforehand!
Always amazing.
The first images back from this lander are very interesting also. Will definitely be following this one.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 05/27/2008 : 12:09:41 [Permalink]
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| So you're saying the Mohave crane worked well? |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 05/27/2008 : 14:18:46 [Permalink]
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Yep!
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Phoenix Mars Lander touch down gently
