[amsat-bb] On-line Coverage of Messenger Crash into Mercury Today

[JoAnne Maenpaa]

Not sure who has been there before Messenger. The Amateur-DSN guys in Europe are copying it. Status of the Deep Space Network and what is being communicated with is displayed at: 

http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

 

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73 de JoAnne K9JKM

k9jkm at amsat.org

AMSAT VP User Services

 

From: John Geiger [mailto:af5cc at fidmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 12:11 PM
To: JoAnne Maenpaa
Cc: AMSAT BB
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] On-line Coverage of Messenger Crash into Mercury Today

 

Cool, won't this be the first spacecraft to "land" on Mercury?

73 John AF5CC

 

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:07 PM, JoAnne Maenpaa <k9jkm at comcast.net> wrote:

The MESSENGER spacecraft is expected to end its mission today with a planned
crash into planet Mercury. Read more on-line at:



http://earthsky.org/space/six-cool-things-about-messengers-april-30-mercury-
crash



Slooh will cover the event with a live show that begin at 3 p.m. EDT (19:00
UTC) on Thursday, April 30. Watch on-line at:  http://main.slooh.com/



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73 de JoAnne K9JKM

k9jkm at amsat.org



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