#equuleus — Public Fediverse posts
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Gizmodo: NASA Delays Launch of Psyche Asteroid Mission Due to Thruster Issue https://gizmodo.com/nasa-delays-launch-psyche-mission-thruster-issue-1850887968 #colonizationoftheasteroidbelt #lasercommunicationinspace #technologyinternet #discoveryprogram #falconheavy #environment #equuleus #psyche #spacex #falcon #nasa
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The Japanese #EQUULEUS spacecraft - launched with #ArtemisI - has successfully photographed comet C/2022 E3 (#ZTF) from space! EQUULEUS is sailing toward the Lunar Lagrange point, and these series of images were taken by calculating the timing and direction from the relative orbits of the comet and EQUULEUS: https://twitter.com/EQUULEUS_en/status/1627864630419931137
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#JAXA: " .. launched by NASA's #ArtemisI on Nov.16, 2022 JST. ..result of .. orbit maneuver control and orbit corrections before and after .. fly-by, .. fly-by was completed as planned on Nov. 22 JST .. #EQUULEUS has .. confirmed .. in the planned orbit towards the 2nd Earth-Moon Lagrange point (EML2)... first successful orbit control beyond low-Earth orbit using a #water ..#propulsion system." ".. move from the initial operation .. to .. normal operation ..": https://global.jaxa.jp/press/2022/11/20221126-1_e.html 26.11.2022
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The Japanese #EQUULEUS spacecraft launched together with the the #Orion "has been confirmed to be in the planned orbit towards the second Earth-Moon Lagrange point (EML2)": https://global.jaxa.jp/press/2022/11/20221126-1_e.html - "[f]rom now, EQUULEUS will move from the initial operation phase onto the normal operation phase, and reach the Lagrange point in approximately 1.5 years."
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Good news on the EQUULEUS CubeSat (by JAXA and the Univ of Tokyo) - comm link was established after its closest approach to the Moon today!
EQUULEUS will measure Earth’s plasmasphere, test water/steam based propulsion and demonstrate low-thrust trajectory control techniques, such as multiple lunar flybys, within the Earth-Moon Lagrange points (EML).
