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Aug. 22, 2007 | 09:50 PDT | 16:50 UTC
Hayabusa update: Now three of four engines are working!
When I last heard about Hayabusa, things seemed pretty grim; only one of four ion engines was working, only one of three reaction wheels functioning, and chemical fuel was exhausted. But the Japanese engineers in charge of the salvage of the return... More»
Aug. 22, 2007 | 06:17 PDT | 13:17 UTC
Europlanet : Great spectrometer - but you broke my laser!
by Doug Ellison in Potsdam
Mark was followed by Bernard Foing - whose colleague Pascale Ehrenfreund spoke about the SMART-1 impact last year in Valencia. Not much new information, but a few extra little snippets of data. The last full frame of... More»
Aug. 22, 2007 | 04:48 PDT | 11:48 UTC
Europlanet : Simulating the SMART-1 impact
by Doug Ellison in Potsdam
Today is about the Moon - the main conference hall has a series of presentations throughout the day - the first half being mainly about the European orbiter SMART-1. Mark Burchell (who spoke about Stardust yesterday)... More»
Aug. 21, 2007 | 13:08 PDT | 20:08 UTC
Dawn launch no earlier than September 26
I originally had a launch period of September 7 to October 15 for the delayed Dawn launch, but according to NASA's launch schedule, Dawn is now launching no earlier than September 26. That's shifted it after Kaguya (and also, thankfully, after... More»
Aug. 21, 2007 | 11:47 PDT | 18:47 UTC
More Activity in NASA's Science Mission Directorate
Emily here interrupting Doug's show from Potsdam to do an update on a topic I'm following. Two weeks ago I wrote about a press conference held by Alan Stern announcing a change in style in the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) at NASA, which he... More»
Aug. 21, 2007 | 09:38 PDT | 16:38 UTC
Europlanet : Up high and down low using H2O
After Kevin was Jacque Blamont of CNES talking about sending balloons to Venus, Mars, and Titan. The principle of flying balloons has been known since 1783 - but they're not a particularly efficient way of carrying a payload around. The Vega... More»
Aug. 21, 2007 | 08:13 PDT | 15:13 UTC
Europlanet : 5th IPPW - New instruments
by Doug Ellison in Potsdam
This afternoon was a smörgåsbord of new mission ideas from around the world including JPL, Russia and France - I'll split it between stories to make it easier to swallow!
JPL's Kevin Baines reported on the... More»
Aug. 21, 2007 | 04:16 PDT | 11:16 UTC
Europlanet : The surface of Venus with VIRTIS
by Doug Ellison in Potsdam
So as I was saying last October....
Jorn Helbert picks up the story. The Venus Express team have been doing studies comparing the expected temperature of the surface derived from Magellan altitude data, with their best... More»
Aug. 21, 2007 | 03:53 PDT | 10:53 UTC
Europlanet : Conference Conundrum
by Doug Ellison in Potsdam
Time for a conference health report: This is only the second ‘Europlanet' so it is not a very big conference, but what is strange is that I hear more American voices than anything else. Among the couple of hundred... More»
Aug. 21, 2007 | 03:06 PDT | 10:06 UTC
Europlanet : Stardust studies
by Doug Ellison in Potsdam
Tuesday is looking like a bit of hit-and-miss day..not too many things that grab my attention, but wouldn't you know it - it was a talk at 0830 (shower, breakfast, lecture, 15 minutes) - that was a must see. Mark... More»
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