22-November-2007, 05:27 AM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Originally Posted by antoniseb
On the other hand, you are right, that unless you like watching numbers tick by, the progress threads here can be kind of dull.
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JHUAPL Messenger status report, November 19, 2007:
Soon, MESSENGER Completes Fifty Percent of Cruise Phase
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On November 25, MESSENGER will have reached the halfway point in its 6.6-year cruise phase, as measured by travel time. In late January 2008 – shortly after its first flyby of Mercury – the probe’s cruise speed (relative to the Sun) will reach its highest since launch: 62.5 kilometers per second (or 140,000 miles per hour).
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“The halfway point for MESSENGER’s cruise phase is more than a statistical milestone, because in less than two months we’ll have our first close-up view of Mercury,” offers MESSENGER Principal Investigator Sean Solomon. “From then until the end of the mission, we’ll be peeling back Mercury’s mysteries, many of which have perplexed the planetary science community for more than three decades.”
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