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#80
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Nicolas PILLET
on 28 Sep, 2007 14:27
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Anyone has seen pictures of the landing?
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#81
by
SMS
on 29 Sep, 2007 06:58
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Nicolas PILLET - 28/9/2007 4:27 PM
Anyone has seen pictures of the landing?
Yes...in my dreams :laugh:
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#82
by
SMS
on 29 Sep, 2007 13:22
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Nicolas PILLET - 28/9/2007 4:27 PM
Anyone has seen pictures of the landing?
Here is
official info about landing. but no real photo...sorry !
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#83
by
satcomuk
on 29 Sep, 2007 14:42
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I think more to the point is ....has anyone seen the tether ?
A number of us have been searching the skies for any hint of the device....with no success.
"If" 8 km has deployed then we would expect to see something.
I very much doubt that the tether will have deployed in a straight line , rather it has probably coiled in some way , thus minimising its visual effect.All the same , I am surprised that so far , no one has actually ssen it.
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#84
by
eeergo
on 29 Sep, 2007 14:56
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There was a new post in the YES2 page stating that someone had actually taken a photo of the tether, but they were waiting for it to be sent to them. Apparently, even that wasn't the tether, because they've deleted the post since then.
In the preliminary mission report they posted, the tether was indeed deployed in a very crooked line, and it's probably tangled up even more ever since. Also, considering the little weight it has without Fotino, it wouldn't surprise me if it has already burned up (just guessing, though)
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#85
by
satcomuk
on 29 Sep, 2007 15:43
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The reason I asked is that in a previous mission , a couple of months ago , it was maintained that the tether had deployed abeit much shorter than expected...then after photo evidence and further checks it was found that only a couple of metres had unwound !
The YES2 image you refer to was I think just a spoof.
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#86
by
tenzing
on 02 Oct, 2007 12:07
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Hi guys,
I'm one of the students involved in the YES2 satellite. Thanks a lot for following our mission evolution, it's a really great feeling for all of us to see that other people are interested in our project!
To reply to what i've read on this forum, as i'm analysing the flight data at the moment, i can confirm that we deployed about 8.5km of the tether. I've read Something got jammed during the second phase, increasing the friction on the tether brake system. At the moment we don't really know what happened up there, we can just make some educated guesses but we have a limited number of sensors to base them on. We're trying to reproduce several senarios by simulation to see what matches the data we got from space. Check the website yes2.info, we'll keep posting things there.
I've spend a couple of freezing and windy nights on the roof of my building to spot the tether, but the weather in holland is so terribly frakking bad that i couldn't see anything. Too bad.. if someone managed to see something, please let me know at mat dash spam at parad0x dot org i'd be glad to hear from you!
Cheers!
Mathieu.
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#87
by
eeergo
on 02 Oct, 2007 19:22
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Hey, welcome to the site! It's great to have one of you here, you're really lucky (although I suppose you've worked really hard)
I'm really curious to know if you managed to track or estimate Fotino's orbit and predicted decay date, and if there's the faintest possibility you'll be able to recover it. Congratulations for the great job, it's a pity the tether didn't deploy so much, but you've done super!
A tidbit about one of Foton's experiments, involving silk worms... they can't pupate!
http://en.rian.ru/science/20071002/82006905.html
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#88
by
Feramin
on 05 Oct, 2007 10:30
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Hello everybody,
I belong to the working group which send the fish to space on Foton M3.
It was a great pleasure to me to find this forum, because it was possible to get the latest news from here.
We all met in our seminary room to watch the start on the esa page, but, as you all now, this didn't work. So we were happy to get the info from this site, opened a bottle of champaign and wished our little cosmonauts a nice flight.
It's amazing to see how many people are interested in such things and are really well informed about what's going on in Baikonur. The first picture from the integration of our experiment we found through a link on this page.
Thank you
greetings Miri
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#89
by
jacqmans
on 05 Oct, 2007 20:07
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http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=248605.10.2007 about how passed experiments on "Photon- M" ? 3 about how passed experiments on "Photon- M" ? 3 they described in GNTS RF - institute of biomedical problems RAN [RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE] (leader of the programs of biological of studies professor yevgeniy Il'in): - are supplied the first (far from final) sums of the biological experiments, carry ouied in flight on the automatic spacecraft Photon- M 3", which find in flight of 12 days. During the flight of satellite "photon" are carry ouied 26 unique scientific programs to order Of roskosmosa, European space agency and number of other institutes. Interest in the event was enormous. Deputy director GNTS RF -IMBP RAN [Russian Academy of Science] Oleg Orlov noted the significance of the results of experiments for the world science and the long-standing fruitful international collaboration of scientists. Maykl Of skidmor, manager on the project "photon -M3" from NASA - NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION, shares this opinion. The main thing - all animals arrived flying living. 12 sand eels, 20 grape snails, five lizards of gekkonov, 10 tritons, which visited space on the automatic spacecraft "photon", already reach the appropriate scientific specialists and they are lulled to sleep for studying their biomaterial. To speak still early, but we hope about the results of flight that all our hypotheses will be confirmed. Studies on the sand eels can give new material for resolution of questions of the adaptation of the human organism to weightlessness conditions. On the "photon" were studied the influence of weightlessness on the behavior of cockroaches, the development of butterfly in the stage of pupa, the biological properties of the seeds of peanut, increase and development of plants, the chemical composition of the thread of the caterpillars of mulberry silkworm. These results are also necessary for the new manned space flights, overcoming the threats for his organism under the extreme conditions.
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#90
by
Nicolas PILLET
on 07 Oct, 2007 13:21
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#91
by
SMS
on 07 Oct, 2007 18:28
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#92
by
William Graham
on 07 Oct, 2007 20:25
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Any news on YES2?
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#93
by
meiza
on 07 Oct, 2007 20:58
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#94
by
MKremer
on 07 Oct, 2007 21:52
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meiza - 7/10/2007 3:58 PM
Haha, this guy looks as if it was christmas!
Considering some (many?) of those folks may have worked for years getting their experiments funded, built, and flown, to have it finally safe in their hands after landing is probably quite like finding Santa left a big present for them on Christmas morning.
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#95
by
jacqmans
on 08 Nov, 2007 15:43
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YES2 team claims a space tether world record
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMUI053R8F_index_0.html8 November 2007
On 25 September, students around the world watched with bated breath as their creation, the second Young Engineers Satellite (YES2) experiment, reached its dramatic conclusion.
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#96
by
Nicolas PILLET
on 21 Dec, 2007 13:46
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#97
by
DarthVader
on 21 Dec, 2007 16:40
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Lovely set there Nicolas. Thanks :-)
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#98
by
meiza
on 22 Dec, 2007 22:55
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#99
by
Feramin
on 25 Jan, 2008 11:13
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