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Tag Archives: space exploration
Voyager 1: Back Online, Still Outward Bound
This isn’t what I’m writing about this week, but it’s noteworthy: “NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth“Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (April 22, 2024 ) “After some inventive sleuthing, the mission team can — … Continue reading
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Any Landing You Can Radio Back From: IM-1 Odyssey
“Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.”(Gerald R. Massie, photographer, following the crash-landing of his B-17 (1944) (from “Stayin alive — 16 favorite aviation quotes“, Dan Littmann, Air Facts (August 25, 2016)) So far, this has … Continue reading
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OSIRIS-REx’s SRC is Back: Snapshots from Utah
An ‘up’ side to my parish’s new Mass schedule is that it gets me back home a few minutes after 9:00 a.m. Usually. Today we had a baptism, so it was about 9:30 when I returned. But that left me … Continue reading
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India: Fourth on the Moon, First near Lunar South Pole
India became the fourth nation to land on Earth’s Moon this week. And the first to land near the Lunar south pole. This is a very big deal. So, in a different way, was the “abnormal situation” that turned Russia’s … Continue reading
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India’s Goal: Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon
UPDATE August 23, 2023 12:50 UTC SUCCESS! India is now the fourth nation to successfully land on the Moon, and the first to successfully land near the Moon’s south pole. Vikram, the Chandrayaan-3 mission’s lander, will, if all goes well, … Continue reading
