Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 - Page 3

NebulaClassGuy · August 4 2012, 07:08 AM

^

Oh, cool... thanks for posting that! I'll be sure to watch!

FPAlpha · August 4 2012, 11:54 AM

I'll be at work when that thing does its controlled crash thing so all i can hope is a radio news report about the success but the first thing i'll do when i get home is to check the net for details.

I'm amazed at the complexity of the entire thing and the possibility that a tiny, non properly functioning thing for a few hundred dollars can ruin an entire 2 billion dollar project.

SilentP · August 4 2012, 12:46 PM

Apparently Xbox Live is also doing a 'Live' Broadcast of the landing, so I may try and catch it on that.

gturner · August 4 2012, 11:41 PM

YellowSubmarine · August 4 2012, 11:53 PM

Wheaton does a much better job at this. Shatner is terrible.

T'Girl · August 5 2012, 12:21 AM

NebulaClassGuy wrote:

Hmmm... I don't think I get NASA as part of the package I have. .

In Seattle on Comcast Cable, it's channel 76.

M'Sharak · August 5 2012, 02:14 AM

Spaceflight Now should also be streaming live coverage of the landing at the following link:

http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/msl/status.html

Also JPL's UStream channel:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl

Trekker4747 · August 5 2012, 02:44 AM

YellowSubmarine wrote:

Wheaton does a much better job at this. Shatner is terrible.

Turn in your Trekker card, now.

The Shatner is infallible. (Okay, Wheaton's reading was a bit better but damn if Shatner wasn't in all his Shatner.)

Jeff O'Connor · August 5 2012, 07:36 AM

So damn excited.

Nociod · August 5 2012, 01:27 PM

17 hours to go!

mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ has a countdown, info on the project and link to ways of watching the landing

JanewayRulz! · August 5 2012, 06:04 PM

Yesterday's update on the NASA website:

Curiosity Closes in on its New 'Home'

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 07:20:24 PM EDT

With Mars looming ever larger in front of it, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft and its Curiosity rover are in the final stages of preparing for entry, descent and landing on the Red Planet at 10:31 p.m. PDT Aug. 5 (1:31 a.m. EDT Aug. 6). Curiosity remains in good health with all systems operating as expected. Today, the flight team uplinked and confirmed commands to make minor corrections to the spacecraft's navigation reference point parameters. This afternoon, as part of the onboard sequence of autonomous activities leading to the landing, catalyst bed heaters are being turned on to prepare the eight Mars Lander Engines that are part of MSL's descent propulsion system. As of 2:25 p.m. PDT (5:25 p.m. EDT), MSL was approximately 261,000 miles (420,039 kilometers) from Mars, closing in at a little more than 8,000 mph (about 3,600 meters per second).

Not landing till 1:31 EDT on 8/6/2012...

I guess I'll find out about it when I wake up Monday morning.

Ar-Pharazon · August 5 2012, 09:39 PM

^ Stay up. You don't need to go to work tomorrow.

MANT! · August 6 2012, 02:57 AM

I do...

Trekker4747 · August 6 2012, 03:02 AM

I'll have to get up at the right time to watch any "results" online/TV. Is the time when the lander actually touches down on Mars or when we'll have signal(s) from it given the time-delay between Earth and Mars. (Something like 20-30 minutes right now, isn't it?)

Chris3123 · August 6 2012, 04:48 AM

Just a few more hours. Even though we've sent rovers before, this is still really exciting.

JanewayRulz! wrote:

Not landing till 1:31 EDT on 8/6/2012...

I guess I'll find out about it when I wake up Monday morning.

August 4 2012, 07:08 AM	#31
NebulaClassGuy Lieutenant Commander Location: Dallas, Texas	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 ^ Oh, cool... thanks for posting that! I'll be sure to watch!

August 4 2012, 11:54 AM	#32
FPAlpha Rear Admiral Location: Mannheim, Germany	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 I'll be at work when that thing does its controlled crash thing so all i can hope is a radio news report about the success but the first thing i'll do when i get home is to check the net for details. I'm amazed at the complexity of the entire thing and the possibility that a tiny, non properly functioning thing for a few hundred dollars can ruin an entire 2 billion dollar project. __________________ "A control freak like you with something you can't control? No no.. that's gonna be more fun than shark week!" Det. Javier Esposito

August 4 2012, 12:46 PM	#33
SilentP Commodore Location: is in a very lonely Corner of the Circle	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 Apparently Xbox Live is also doing a 'Live' Broadcast of the landing, so I may try and catch it on that.

August 4 2012, 11:41 PM	#34
gturner Admiral Location: Kentucky	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012

August 4 2012, 11:53 PM	#35
YellowSubmarine Commodore	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 Wheaton does a much better job at this. Shatner is terrible. __________________ R.I.P. Admiral James T. Kirk (2233-2267, 1969, 2267, 1930, 2267-2268, 1968, 2268-2269, Serpeidon Middle Ages, 2269, 2237, 2269-2286, 1986, 2286-2293, 2371)

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August 5 2012, 02:14 AM	#37
M'Sharak Definitely Herbert. Maybe. Location: Terra Inlandia	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 Spaceflight Now should also be streaming live coverage of the landing at the following link: http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/msl/status.html Also JPL's UStream channel: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl __________________ I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split. — Kurt Vonnegut Last edited by M'Sharak; August 5 2012 at 05:52 PM. Reason: JPL's UStream channel

August 5 2012, 07:36 AM	#39
Jeff O'Connor Commodore Location: Tampa, FL	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 So damn excited. __________________ Star Trek 1966-

August 5 2012, 01:27 PM	#40
Nociod Fleet Captain Location: Norway	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 17 hours to go! mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ has a countdown, info on the project and link to ways of watching the landing

August 5 2012, 09:39 PM	#42
Ar-Pharazon Admiral of the Rear	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 ^ Stay up. You don't need to go to work tomorrow. __________________ Rimmer, on what period of history to live in- “Well, It’d be the 19th century for me, one of Napoleon’s marshals. The chance to march across Europe with the greatest general of all time and kill Belgians” - (White Hole).

August 6 2012, 02:57 AM	#43
MANT! Rear Admiral Location: Mare Island Naval Shipyard	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 I do... __________________ "Young lady, human/insect mutation is far from an exact science..."

August 6 2012, 03:02 AM	#44
Trekker4747 To boldly go... Location: Kansas City	Re: Mars Curiosity Rover... to land 10:31 pm 8/5/2012 I'll have to get up at the right time to watch any "results" online/TV. Is the time when the lander actually touches down on Mars or when we'll have signal(s) from it given the time-delay between Earth and Mars. (Something like 20-30 minutes right now, isn't it?) __________________ Just because it's futuristic doesn't mean it's practical.