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LIVE: MSL Curiosity Rover ENTRY, DESCENT, LANDING - Aug 5-6, 2012
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Chris Bergin
on 05 Aug, 2012 14:37
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#1
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Prober
on 05 Aug, 2012 16:35
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#2
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Prober
on 05 Aug, 2012 16:43
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12 hours prior to landing
We may fail
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#3
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Chris Bergin
on 05 Aug, 2012 16:45
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A rather relaxed presser. Teams will be sporting mutton chops, mohawk hair styles and holding trinkets.
Currently 100,000 miles from Mars, closing in at 8,000 miles per hour.
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#4
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Chris Bergin
on 05 Aug, 2012 16:48
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#5
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Chris Bergin
on 05 Aug, 2012 16:49
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Here's the cool guy, Adam. Calling MSL a "she" and that she's warming up EDL systems right now.
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#6
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Chris Bergin
on 05 Aug, 2012 16:51
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"Tonight's atmosphere on Mars looks perfect. Now it's to the fates."
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#7
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Chris Bergin
on 05 Aug, 2012 16:52
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"We're rationally confident. Emotionally terrified. But ready for EDL".
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#8
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Prober
on 05 Aug, 2012 16:56
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Adam pointing to the two parts of Tungsten that need to come off before entry to create the inbalance for lift.
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#9
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Chris Bergin
on 05 Aug, 2012 16:59
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No need to take the final course correction (contingency) opportunity.
One more op to update parameters to the onboard knowledge, if required. Don't expect it to be required.
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#10
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Chris Bergin
on 05 Aug, 2012 17:01
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First picture will be ready to go up from MSL after four minutes. It's a race to get it up before the orbiters go out of link.
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#11
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Chris Bergin
on 05 Aug, 2012 17:12
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"If it succeeds it will be the greatest achievement in planetary exploration If it fails, we need to understand why it failed. Would it be the end of the program - no. We'll learn from it and do it again."
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#12
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Chris Bergin
on 05 Aug, 2012 17:17
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Lots of failure questions. Lots of responses that they would do it again.
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#13
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Chris Bergin
on 05 Aug, 2012 17:20
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"She seems like a she" - Adam. Notes the tradition of "she". I really like this fella!
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#14
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Chris Bergin
on 05 Aug, 2012 17:25
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Odessey needs to roll before EDL to be able to communicate with MSL on the ground. One of four assets.
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#15
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Chris Bergin
on 05 Aug, 2012 17:30
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Over the course of today we'll see if there is motion in the navigation. EDL update parameter 4 will come six hours out, where we might update MSL.
Midnight Eastern for live commentary.
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#16
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JimO
on 05 Aug, 2012 19:48
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I still don't feel well-enough prepared to interpret telemetry clues to potential PARTIAL landing failure -- too hard, bad attitude, whatever. I remember Viking-2's landing -- comm problems kept us in suspense. I give the mission 90% chance of safe landing but I think it's a lot more likely, too, that initial telemetry will be surprising and baffling, or even entirely absent - NOT a total indicator of failure, but worrisome. So I'll be on line here, watching and wondering -- and wowing.
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#17
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John44
on 05 Aug, 2012 20:11
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#18
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EirikV
on 05 Aug, 2012 20:55
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This is so cool - live computer simulation with Mars in the background. Still over 70k miles to go
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#19
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Kaputnik
on 05 Aug, 2012 22:21
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60,000 miles to go; 8231mph; about 7hrs to go. Go MSL!
