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an important space story like THIS gets ignored?

IMHO this is pretty serious, if Cassini is forced to use the Reaction Control Subsystem instead of it's gyros for the rest of the mission, I dont see how it could possibly have enough fuel to complete the original length Saturnian tour. And would therefore put the entire 3.4 Billion mission in jeopardy.

Sorry, it's here: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0007/21jplcham p/

This should be what you are looking for:

JET PACKS

In case people might actually BE interested this page gives a running status of what's going on (space walk 4 is in progress)

The new launch time is today 7:17 EDT (23:17 GMT). They already have removed the pin (had to drain the oxygen and hydrogen before they could remove it). The full detailed story.

Spaceflight Now has a picture of where the pin was lodged on the shuttle. It's pretty hard to see. An inspection team found it using binoculars.

Is it just me, or does picture number 1 look like a screen shot from SimCity? =)

What about picture number 6 then, looks like a screen shot from a scifi movie :-)

No "civilan targets" were destroyed... yeah right compare the pics before and after the war in Chechenya

Is it just me, or does picture number 1 look like a screen shot from SimCity? =)

What about picture number 6 then, looks like a screen shot from a scifi movie :-)

No "civilan targets" were destroyed... yeah right compare the pics before and after the war in Chechenya

Is it just me, or does picture number 1 look like a screen shot from SimCity? =)

What about picture number 6 then, looks like a screen shot from a scifi movie :-)

No "civilan targets" were destroyed... yeah right compare the pics before and after the war in Chechenya

Is it just me, or does picture number 1 look like a screen shot from SimCity? =)

What about picture number 6 then, looks like a screen shot from a scifi movie :-)

No "civilan targets" were destroyed... yeah right compare the pics before and after the war in Chechenya

Here are links to this story around the Internet:

Hubble and Chandra imaged the comet in early July and saw a house sized chunk come off the comet:
NASA Press Release

A British telescope imaged the comet in late July as it completely vapourized:
Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes Press Release

Finally, here are links to the CNN article, and everywhere else on the Internet I could find:
Astronomy Now
CNN Space
Space Online

And, of course, my own coverage on Universe Today.

Fraser Cain

Here's a list of all space news sites talking about this story. Compare and contrast the coverage.

And, of course, my own at Universe Today

If it comes in early it will hit Central / South america.

Now we know where Costa Rica's is getting the computers for it's free internet proposal.

Anyone watching the GRO reentry live ?

TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken

I remember when NASA use to try to squeze every ounce of life out of it's probes, Just look at the history.

Neptune and Uranus where secondary objectives for voyager II if it survived that long.

Pioneer 10 and 11, first probes to cross the asteroid belt, visit jupiter, and visit saturn. They continued obtaining data from them long after the jupiter and saturn(pioneer 11) flybys. Pioneer 10 expired in the mid 90's (launched 1973) and they are predicting pioneer 11 (launched 1972) to kick the bucket anyday now. It is still returning usefull data, though it has no budget!

Pioneer 6, launched in 1965 is considered NASA's oldest operational space craft, I know it was still running in 1996, I think it is still running...

Pioneer Venus launched in 1978 was designed to last a year, they kept it going until 1992.

The Viking missions, launched in 1976, they kept them going till the landers died in the mid 80's.

The Skylab rescue, instead of writing it off they salvaged the derilict space station.

They salvaged and repaired Solar Max with the shuttle, to bad they where to cheap to launch a reboost mission to keep it going later (under the NEW NASA)

And finally the (Orbiting Astronomy Observatory) OAO-3 copernicus. Launched in 1972, it was kept going until the early 1990's. As the Gyro's failed (one by one) the control software was modified to handle first only 2 working gyro's, then only 1 working gyro.

Which btw. is what happened to GRO, it now has only 2 working gyro's. GRO was designed to be serviced by the space shuttle (just like solar max, and hubble). NASA acknowledges that they can modify the software to safely control/re-enter with 1 or 0 operating gyro's.

This is a waste of tax payer money, and a direct effort by the NEW NASA to distance itself from the successful programs of the OLD NASA.

Did you hear since the VP is in charge of the space program that Al Gore invented outer space ?

TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken

While I vent some deep links to nasawatch
comments on the crash
likely excuses by NASA
FAQ on why to crash
SpaceflightNow crash status

• UniSci
  
• Space Telescope Science Institute
  
• MSNBC
  
• BBC
  
• CNN (buggy--text at bottom)
  
• Spaceflight Now
  
• Space.com
  
• USA Today (under weather... Bah!)
  
• Fox News
  
• Science Daily
  

SpaceflightNow.com has tons of info on everything that flies into space. For example, you can also read about the status of a launch to place another GPS bird in orbit here. The link for that shuttle flight also has lots of info on the 'hack' they did to the shuttle while it was on the pad to replace a hydraulics unit (first time they've ever attempted that).

SpaceflightNow.com has tons of info on everything that flies into space. For example, you can also read about the status of a launch to place another GPS bird in orbit here. The link for that shuttle flight also has lots of info on the 'hack' they did to the shuttle while it was on the pad to replace a hydraulics unit (first time they've ever attempted that).