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Article #6840Re: Mars Observer Update - 01/20/93
From: Thomas E. Smith
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:31
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:31
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Ron Baalke writes: >Today the spacecraft is 58,313,994 km (36,234,636 miles) from Earth, >traveling at a velocity of 12.9012 kilometers per second (28,859 miles >per hour) with respect to Earth. One way light time is approximately 195 >seconds. I wrote down this info on 12-30-92, and the velocity was 9.4083km/s. Is the acceleration due to Mars's gravitational pull, or from the Earth dropping away from the probe because of the Earth's circular orbit? -- ____________________________________________________________________________ | It's not my damn planet, understand | Tom E. Smith | | Monkey Boy?!! John Bigbootey | tes@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!aio!motif!tes From: tes@motif.uucp (Thomas E. Smith) Subject: Re: Mars Observer Update - 01/20/93 Message-ID: <1993Jan21.193127.7720@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> Keywords: Mars Observer, JPL Sender: news@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (USENET News System) Organization: Software Technology Branch - NASA/Johnson Space Center References: <21JAN199317204961@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:31:27 GMT Lines: 16