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Archive for September, 2012

September 5, 2012

MSL Descent and Landing – The Story Told by Adam Steltzner of JPL

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The video starts with a computer simulation from NASA\’s Eyes on the Solar System program and uses images from MSL\’s Mars Descent Imager.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

BepiColombo Vibration and Separation Tests

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BepiColombo\’s structural and thermal model undergoing testing at ESTEC, ESA\’s space research and technology centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. From top to bottom are the sunshield, which conceals the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter, with the Mercury Planetary Orbiter below. Underneath is the Mercury Transfer Module, which will deliver the stack of two scientific satellites into orbit around the planet. The stack is roughly six metres high. During the 2.5 minute vibration test, the spacecraft was subjected to frequencies from 3 Hz to 100 Hz, mimicking conditions it will experience when it lifts off on an Ariane 5 launch vehicle in 2015.

Credit: ESA