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Mercury/Vulcanoid Sounding Rocket Launch (Live Sounding Rocket Webcast from WSMR)
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/stern04jan10.html ^
| January 9, 2004
| Alan Stern/SwRI
Posted on 01/10/2004 12:28:46 AM PST by MikeD
NASA suborbital mission 36.210 (PI Stern) will use the newly-developed, high-throughput BDPR ultraviolet spectrograph to make the first ever far ultraviolet spectrum of the planet Mercury. BDPR will also fly an image intensified CCD camera to search for Vulcanoids near the Sun. The mission will reach a maximum altude of 263 km (164 km, 870,000 ft) during its 15 minute research mission to space and back.
This mission has been primarily supported by the NASA planetary suborbital rocket program. Additional support was provided by the NASA Applied Information Systems program and The Planetary Society.
(Excerpt) Read more at boulder.swri.edu ...
TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: mercury; rockets; vulcanoids
I apologize for the late post, but I just found out about the webcast. I'm posting this from the blockhouse at WSMR. If this flight is successful, it will be the first UV spectrum of Mercury. Also, this flight will hopefully detect any existing Vulcanoid asteroids.
Launch is at 12:30 UT on Jan 10. Click on the link for a live webcast.
Go Big Dog, Go!
MD
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01/10/2004 12:28:46 AM PST
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MikeD
To: RadioAstronomer; petuniasevan
PING -- sorry for the late warning. I know the launch is 5:30 Mountain Time...
MD
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01/10/2004 12:29:41 AM PST
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MikeD
(Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!)
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To: MikeD
I will link this post to the APOD for 1-10-04. Thanks.
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01/10/2004 12:42:39 AM PST
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petuniasevan
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To: petuniasevan
Sorry again -- we've had to scrub for today. Our pointing camera is jittery, and we don't want to risk an in-flight failure. We're getting a new camera flown in, and we hope to launch ~12:30 UT Wednesday.
Ah well, that's the way rockets work...
MD
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posted on
01/10/2004 2:46:55 AM PST
by
MikeD
(Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!)
To: MikeD
Rocket Science...sheesh! You'd think it was brain surgery or something! :P
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posted on
01/10/2004 3:43:58 PM PST
by
WSGilcrest
(maybe I misread the title?)
To: petuniasevan
Another update -- our star tracker has bombed out on us, so the launch is delayed until Thursday. At this rate our window is going to run out...
MD
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01/11/2004 7:47:41 PM PST
by
MikeD
(Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!)
To: WSGilcrest; petuniasevan
Latest update -- we are scheduled for a 12:29 UT Friday launch. We've fixed our star tracker, but we have to wait for an ordnance demonstration at WSMR to finish. Hate to be shot down while recovering the payload...
MD
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posted on
01/14/2004 1:41:02 PM PST
by
MikeD
(Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!)
To: MikeD
Thanks for the update!
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posted on
01/14/2004 2:29:05 PM PST
by
petuniasevan
(Turned over my keyboard; got enough crumbs to coat a drumstick.)
To: MikeD
thanks for the ping
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01/14/2004 10:51:17 PM PST
by
WSGilcrest
(maybe I misread the title?)
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