NASA's Deep Impact Moved Into Cruise Phase

karvind writes "NASA is reporting that the Deep Impact spacecraft has completed the commissioning phase of the mission and has moved into the cruise phase. Deep Impact mission planners have separated the spacecraft's flight operations into five mission phases. Cruise phase will continue until about 60 days before the encounter with comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005. Deep Impact has been covered on slashdot before"

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Well, It's NASA

[roman_mir]

So I hope they did their metric to imperial, imperial to metric conversions properly, otherwise we may just find out on this planet, who this deep impact thingy impacts.

Halfassed NASA Eggheads?

[EtherealStrife]

"Deep Impact is comprised of two parts, a flyby spacecraft and a smaller impactor. The impactor will be released into the comet's path for the planned high-speed collision. The crater produced by the impactor is expected to range from the width of a house up to the size of a football stadium and be from two to 14 stories deep. Ice and dust debris will be ejected from the crater revealing the material beneath."
... need I say more?

Not Funny: Deep Impact and Chinese Weapons

[Anonymous Coward]

After the "Deep Impact" experiment, NASA should issue a brief press release and then designate all the experiments' findings as "top secret". The measurements from the experiment would be a boon to Beijing, for the data could be used to improve the precision of guided missiles. The Chinese want to improve their missiles so that they can more easily hit American or Japanese targets.

Yu0 fail it

[Anonymous Coward]

BSD managed t0 make