Genesis Fails to Deploy Chute, Slams into Earth

[Deepak]

Link

 

[Citrous]

Unfortunately I read that the comet-trailing Stardust probe uses a similar parachute design. It was supposedly designed to survive a chuteless impact however.

 

[Diplo]

Some better news:

Material has been found still intact inside the crashed Genesis space capsule, say Nasa scientists.

Experts said on Friday they hoped the mission to gather solar wind particles could still be largely successful.

"We should be able to meet many, if not all, of our primary science goals," said physicist Roger Wiens of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3646154.stm

 

[Kaizer]

Were they using the metric- or the imperial system for the navigational calculations?

Kjetil

 

[Citrous]

Were they using the metric- or the imperial system for the navigational calculations?

Kjetil

They were prolly using both again

 

[Tagrineth]

Wake me when NASA gets something right again...

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[digitalwanderer]

If they were going to send a console into orbit why didn't they choose one of the more recent ones? :|

 

[Deepak]

Link

"Yesterday’s crash of the Genesis sample return canister forced scientists to look for slivers of hope in the busted up remains of fragile collection arrays. The good news is that they believe they see large pieces of the thin arrays inside the breached specimen canister.

Those large pieces of the thin arrays -- ultra-pure wafers of gold, sapphire, silicon and diamond -- are embedded with the solar wind particles."