Genesis Mission

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Genesis Mission

Post #1by TERRIER » 08.09.2004, 23:07

Once again it's hats off to the ITV News Channel here in the UK for having a feature on the Genesis Mission this morning, which I was lucky enough to see before I went to work.
The aim of the mission was to capture some samples of solar wind and return it to Earth for future analysis.
Today was the day the capsule was to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and be captured by a helicopter stunt pilot, before it hit the ground.

Alas, it appears as if they haven't succeeded in the final part of the mission :-(

see http://www.genesismission.org/

The model and an xyz orbit (which ends at 14:38 UTC 8th September) is available on Jack Higgins website;
http://homepage.eircom.net/~jackcelestia/ is the address

and on the motherload;
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catal ... lites.html

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Post #2by Guest » 09.09.2004, 03:12

Yeah I was really sad to see the mission end so sadly, all that hard work and all that time :(. Hopefully there are some salvagable samples that are not contaminated.

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Post #3by Scorpiove » 09.09.2004, 03:13

oops the last post was mine....

"Yeah I was really sad to see the mission end so sadly, all that hard work and all that time :(. Hopefully there are some salvagable samples that are not contaminated."

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Post #4by symaski62 » 09.09.2004, 09:41

genesis est 161 km/h vitesse

casse 8O mais 150km/h avant :/
windows 10 directX 12 version
celestia 1.7.0 64 bits
with a general handicap of 80% and it makes much d' efforts for the community and s' expimer, thank you d' to be understanding.

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Post #5by lostfisherman » 11.09.2004, 23:02

There is some encouraging news regarding the extraction of material.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3646154.stm

I'm a little amused NASA used "...a mirror on a stick" but it is Friday night.
Regards, Losty

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Post #6by TERRIER » 12.09.2004, 07:16

BBC wrote:Examinations, using torches and a mirror on a stick, revealed that much of the sample canister inside the wrecked capsule had remained intact.

lostfisherman wrote:I'm a little amused NASA used "...a mirror on a stick" but it is Friday night.


This is Sunday morning and I'm still laughing. I know NASA is on a budget, but what happened to the endoscope ? :lol:
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