Waspie_Dwarf Posted September 22, 2015 #1 Share Posted September 22, 2015 NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Dance with Eclipses On the evening of Sept. 27, 2015, into the early morning of Sept. 28 EDT, operators of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will wait as Earth blots out the sun and the moon goes dark. The flight operations team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have seen LRO safely through three lunar eclipses in about a year and a half. Although it is certainly not an ordinary night, science operations planner Dawn Myers at Goddard said the team knows the routine.“We have a method and it works well,” she said. “It’s always stressful during the approach of the eclipse, but we follow the same procedures every time and we haven’t had any trouble.” Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merc14 Posted September 23, 2015 #2 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Amazing stuff! I love how they continually improvise to make these craft do things they were never intended to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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