Phoenix Mars Landing Thread

[Andy44]

Thanks! (Although I had no involvement with Phoenix)

I have coworkers who worked on the biobarrier and arm, so I have to wait for the first set of pictures to confirm the biobarrier deployment before I congratulate anyone.

BTW - love the new forums.

Welcome to the boards. Great day for a first post!

 

[pete.dakota]

Jubilations aside. Does anyone else find the lady presenting NASA TV really annoying?

 

[Kyle]

YAHOO! Welcome to Mars Phoenix, I kinda got the hint that she was going to make it when they didn't loose Signal.

 

[jgrillo2002]

yea I though she was annoying no less. but WHOOOOOOOOO. Damn what a ride. nice work to the phoenix team

 

[MajorTom]

Wow, exhilarating!

Can't wait for the first pic.

 

[pete.dakota]

I'm hoping NASA TV will keep coverage going through to solar array deploy and the first picture.

 

[Andy44]

I wonder how many Viking greybeards are involved with this mission.

Wish them luck with the intitialization. Still critical things to be done.

 

[Kyle]

I saw the Landing both on TV and on Orbiter at the same time, They were EXACT.
Keep in mind, I had the mouse on EXIT AKA "Flight Termination" In till EI to Touchdown.

 

[Jumper_001]

So I see the ops team all standing around laughing, but aren't there some post-landing activities or commanding to do? I would think you have some configuring of the machine to do, especially solar panel deployment and stuff.

I believe comms have terminated until Odyssey makes another pass in an hour and a half. All of the required operations for the 'set-up' post landing are on an automated sequence. Which means in an hour and a half we should see photos of deployed solar panels, biobarrier, etc.

Welcome to the boards. Great day for a first post!

I was around before, but MSL has severely curtailed my Orbiter time the last year or so.

 

[Zatnikitelman]

Indeed, welcome Jumper!
Here's hoping that all the deployments go well. The really hard part's over, but the long hard work is just beginning.

 

[Missioncmdr]

It looks like there is going to be some show on the National Geographic Channel relating to Phoenix starting in about 45 minutes.

 

[silent_protagonist]

Jumper, you wanna trade jobs for a week?:yes:

Can't wait for first pics!

 

[teago]

I like how the new official NASA motto is "Follow the Water", kinda cheesy. I hope that means the next stop's Europa.

 

[astrosammy]

Just found out that 35 years ago, on May 25, 1973, the first mission to Skylab was launched.

 

[thomasantony]

Cool!!

The only thing I am ma daboutis that my cable net cut out around 20 seconds after re-entry started. I had set up the NASA TV feed to record to HDD and all. I also didn't have the sense to turn on the TV as I was too busy watching "X2: X-Men United" in the meantime .. waiting for the net to return. By the time it got connected again, I saw some guys going around cheering. I checked wiki and found that it had landed.

Oh well.. at least it went well for Phoenix . Cheers. :speakcool:

Edit: Apparently, the Phoenix Lander blog

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/blogs/index.html

still says 31 minutes to touchdown
Edit 2: I think its T+32, cuz the numbers are increasing .

~
Thomas

 

[Andy44]

Here's a thread I started for discussing the scientific, statistical, and philosophical implications of this mission: http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=20171#post20171

Decided a new thread was in order since this is the landing thread...

 

[astrosammy]

First images in 60 minutes!!!

 

[Lunchbox]

I I had the mouse on EXIT AKA "Flight Termination" In till EI to Touchdown.

All throughout watching it on TV I had that same feeling!

 

[padrat42]

I can not wait untill MSL gets to this point. Skycrane is going to be a fun to see work.:speakcool:

 

[silent_protagonist]

It looks like there is going to be some show on the National Geographic Channel relating to Phoenix starting in about 45 minutes.

The (obviously pre-recorded) National Geographic program mentions the successful landing. I wonder if they had one for failure too and if so what they would have said for an hour.