Moon Mission Provides Students with Unique Opportunity
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Students watch the launch of LRO and LCROSS from the GAVRT control room. Credit: Lewis Center for Educational Research/Greg Waskul.Larger image When NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on June 18, 2009, students in the Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope (GAVRT) program were ready.
The GAVRT program students have a unique resource: a massive 34-meter radio telescope used for exploration of the universe; and the students are using it to actively participate in the LCROSS mission.
On day two of the mission, students manning the GAVRT control room in Apple Valley, Calif., successfully acquired, tracked and measured the radial delta-V, or change in speed, of LCROSS during the mission’s critical first trajectory correction maneuver. The students were able to measure the changing Doppler shift in the spacecraft’s carrier signal and were able to estimate a radial delta-V of approximately 49 feet per second (15 m/s). Full Story
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