PhilBot
14-03-2011, 17:17
Unrlelated... but not (in the big picture).
One or our FTC mentors (Max) really is a retired rocket scientist. He was involved with 9 different satelite missions.
His last (before retiring) was the "Messenger" who's mission was/is to take up orbit around Mercury and do various mapping.
The Satelite was launched back in 2004, but just this week it will do it's final orbit insertion. He's pretty excited :)
Imagine designing anything that you send out and have to wait 7 years for it to do it's job.
If you want to see some more details (and a cool animation) go here:
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/mer_orbit.html
Stay tuned for pictures.
Phil.
One or our FTC mentors (Max) really is a retired rocket scientist. He was involved with 9 different satelite missions.
His last (before retiring) was the "Messenger" who's mission was/is to take up orbit around Mercury and do various mapping.
The Satelite was launched back in 2004, but just this week it will do it's final orbit insertion. He's pretty excited :)
Imagine designing anything that you send out and have to wait 7 years for it to do it's job.
If you want to see some more details (and a cool animation) go here:
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/mer_orbit.html
Stay tuned for pictures.
Phil.