29-August-2007, 04:49 PM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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2 weeks to launch
JAXA Launch of KAGUYA/H-IIAF13 Special Site
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14 days to launch
JAXA Overview of the KAGUYA (SELENE) (with pictures):
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The "KAGUYA" consists of a Main Orbiter, which circulates 100 kilometers above the Moon, and two small satellites (a Relay Satellite and a VRAD Satellite).
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Once the "KAGUYA" is launched, it will go around the Earth twice and then toward the Moon, before entering into a lunar orbit. The Main Orbiter of the "KAGUYA" will then separate the Relay Satellite and VRAD Satellite and observe the Moon's surface over a one-year period while it goes around the circular orbit 100 kilometers above the Moon passing over both poles. Each of the small satellites will circulate on different elliptic orbits to observe the Moon.
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