LCROSS Flight Director's Blog
- July 2009
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Introduction to Cruise Phase
Jul 22, 2009 01:02:40 AM | Paul.D Tompkins
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- Between Transfer Phase and Impact Phase is the longest, but least well-understood phase of the LCROSS mission – Cruise Phase. It's been the hardest part of the mission to communicate, so I offer this introduction to Cruise Phase as a primer for future posts on our latest activities.
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Lunar Swingby: Development of a Procedure
Jul 13, 2009 06:29:15 PM | Paul.D Tompkins
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- All of you keeping up with LCROSS have undoubtedly already heard the good news – that our team at NASA Ames successfully performed our capstone event on Day 5 of the mission – the Lunar Swingby. In execution, it worked just as we had hoped. But getting it to work wasn’t easy. In this post, I’d like to walk you through the evolution of the procedures and command sequences that we ultimately flew on Day 5.
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