insert_name Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 What time is the launch going to be, I plan on watching if I can finish my homework Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kryten Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Launch window is 23:05 - 01:05 UTC, they'll launch close to the start of that if they can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njmksr Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 (edited) While it is highly unlikely now possible (thanks to @Dman979) that a member of the OSIRIS-REx mission team will read this, I would like to wish @IonStorm and all of the people on the team good luck and a safe flight to Bennu. We're rooting for you guys! UPDATE: CONGRATS @IonStorm, now, onto Bennu! Edited September 9, 2016 by njmksr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dman979 Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 20 minutes ago, njmksr said: While it is highly unlikely that a member of the OSIRIS-REx mission team will ever read this, I would like to wish all of the people on the team good luck and a safe flight to Bennu. We're rooting for you guys! I'll bet you $50 USD that someone from the team will read this. @IonStorm? You there, or at your console? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njmksr Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 (edited) 29 minutes ago, Dman979 said: I'll bet you $50 USD that someone from the team will read this. @IonStorm? You there, or at your console? Whoops! Forgot we had a member of the OSIRIS-REx team on the forums! I doubt that he'll be paying attention to this. He's either got pre-launch coverage to watch, or, ya know, he's actually there << (More likely) Edited September 8, 2016 by njmksr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dman979 Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 2 minutes ago, njmksr said: I doubt that he'll be paying attention to this. He's either got pre-launch coverage to watch, or, ya know, he's actually there but he'll read it... And he is there right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 4 hours ago, insert_name said: What time is the launch going to be, I plan on watching if I can finish my homework In 7 minutes for me. I'm not studying for Spanish tonight! And English. And Biology. And everything else I have quizzes on tomorrow. One minute until launch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njmksr Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 (edited) Woah @IonStorm... I'm watching a video of you discussing the mission on NASA TV after the launch... Go OREx! BTW CONGRATS ON A SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH! Edited September 9, 2016 by njmksr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Great job to all the team and good luck on the next phases of the mission! The launch stream on NASATV was beautiful BTW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 On 5/26/2016 at 2:18 PM, IonStorm said: The spacecraft touches the surface of Bennu with what looks like an old car air filter on the end of a 3-m long pogo stick. "Raw" engineer-speak On 5/26/2016 at 2:18 PM, IonStorm said: This is called the Touch And Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM). "Crap we really should come up with a cool acronym for this thing we invented" engineer-speak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legoclone09 Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Congradulations @IonStorm for the safe launch! I can't wait for it to get there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flayer Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 So, how much closer is this going to bring us to start mining these things? I can already imagine that 20-30 years from now we'll send up some basic mining equipment along with a couple of the latest 2040-style 3d printers and get building on that first (robotic?) asteroid colony in the first capitalist venture outside of the Earth SOI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IonStorm Posted September 9, 2016 Author Share Posted September 9, 2016 (edited) The rules have been updated with a close date of October 8, 2016 at 7:05:00 pm EDT. There are now numerous videos widely available showing the launch you can use to improve realism. Video feed from the Centaur camera including OSIRIS-REx separation is here. More video should be posted later. Please post your entry in this thread, state for which category you are competing. One entry per person per category. Evaluations will not occur until after the contest has closed. Have fun. Edited September 9, 2016 by IonStorm added video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todofwar Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 On 5/23/2016 at 1:32 PM, IonStorm said: I'm glad you like the name. OSIRIS-REx was based on the mission objectives: Origins: Return and analyze a sample of pristine carbonaceous asteroid regolith Spectral Interpretation: Provide ground truth for telescopic data of the entire asteroid population Resource Identification: Map the chemistry and mineralogy of a primitive carbonaceous asteroid Security: Measure the Yarkovsky effect on a potentially hazardous asteroid Plus Egyptology is cool. We proposed OSIRIS twice in the NASA Discovery mission line, but the Agency selected nobody for our first cycle then Grail for our second. The biggest problem was we couldn't fit in the cost box for Discovery. We proposed for New Frontiers, with about double the budget and as a joke someone added REX to the end to signify it was bigger. The joke stuck, so we decided that REx must mean: Regolith Explorer: Document the regolith at the sampling site at scales down to the sub-cm NASA does love their acronyms. I'm fond of this passage Anyway, the spacecraft (or s/c) shipped to NASA KSC Friday and final preparations for launch September 8, 2016 at 7:05 EDT are underway. I am very much looking forward to your OSIRIS-REx model in KSP. Not just a NASA thing, and at least they make some kind of sense. Unlike the National Biomedical Research Center for AdvanCed ESR Technology (ACERT). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoloYolo Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Congratulations on the launch. Saw the success on the news this morning. Makes me want to do this challenge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanamonde Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 A pair of threads about this same mission have been merged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IonStorm Posted September 10, 2016 Author Share Posted September 10, 2016 On September 8, 2016 at 4:54 PM, njmksr said: Whoops! Forgot we had a member of the OSIRIS-REx team on the forums! I doubt that he'll be paying attention to this. He's either got pre-launch coverage to watch, or, ya know, he's actually there << (More likely) I was on console in the event of an anomaly. Luckily, it was pretty boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoSlash27 Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 23 minutes ago, IonStorm said: I was on console in the event of an anomaly. Luckily, it was pretty boring. Congrats to your team, ULA, and the USAF range team. Really a textbook launch yesterday. I was impressed with how easy you folks made it look. Best, -Slashy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robotengineer Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 @IonStorm What do you (and the team) do during the cruise phase? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IonStorm Posted September 11, 2016 Author Share Posted September 11, 2016 8 hours ago, Robotengineer said: @IonStorm What do you (and the team) do during the cruise phase? Most of the team moves to other projects. (This is one reason launch is bittersweet. I will now rarely see the friends I have made and worked with for years.) There will be periodic updates https://dslauretta.com/2016/09/10/osiris-rex-day-2-in-space/ through the DSN http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html. So the navigation team is getting busy as the build team moves on. (Note that the enhanced acceleration noted was truly tiny, on the order of µm/s2.) My time on the project also decreases--there is less for me to do on a daily basis and this saves money for OSIRIS-REx. There are some scheduled activities: calibrations, rehearsals of observing modes (ground testing is great, but not quite the same as in space), tweaks to the software. 15 days after launch we turn on the instruments for a health check. In January we do a maneuver to put us on track with Bennu and prepare for EGA in a year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IonStorm Posted September 22, 2016 Author Share Posted September 22, 2016 (edited) Kennedy Space Center has posted a bunch more photos. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasakennedy/sets/72157668020787040 Here are launch videos to help you too, among many on the web. Note that OSIRIS-REx launched ~180ms into the opening of the window, so the nominal timelines in pre-launch videos are pretty accurate. Edited September 22, 2016 by IonStorm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IonStorm Posted October 8, 2016 Author Share Posted October 8, 2016 At launch +30 days Phase C/D is over, this signifies the end of construction, testing, and launch operations. OSIRIS-REx launched exactly 30 days ago at 7:05:00.180 EST and prepares for its first trajectory correction maneuver http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-tests-thrusters-on-journey-to-asteroid-bennu. And so the entries for this contest is over. I will tally the responses and award prizes (digital and real for winners willing to have OSIRIS-REx pins and stickers mailed to them) shortly. Thank you for your interest. OSIRIS-REx will continue towards a main engine burn in December, Earth gravity assist next September, Bennu encounter the following summer, sampling in 2020, and Earth return to Utah September 24, 2023 at 8:53am MDT. Keep looking out for OSIRIS-REx information and enjoy KSP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoloYolo Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 14 hours ago, IonStorm said: At launch +30 days Phase C/D is over, this signifies the end of construction, testing, and launch operations. OSIRIS-REx launched exactly 30 days ago at 7:05:00.180 EST and prepares for its first trajectory correction maneuver http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-tests-thrusters-on-journey-to-asteroid-bennu. And so the entries for this contest is over. I will tally the responses and award prizes (digital and real for winners willing to have OSIRIS-REx pins and stickers mailed to them) shortly. Thank you for your interest. OSIRIS-REx will continue towards a main engine burn in December, Earth gravity assist next September, Bennu encounter the following summer, sampling in 2020, and Earth return to Utah September 24, 2023 at 8:53am MDT. Keep looking out for OSIRIS-REx information and enjoy KSP! Shame I didn't get to do this, but congrats to everyone that did. Hope the mission goes well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IonStorm Posted October 10, 2016 Author Share Posted October 10, 2016 (edited) Looking through the posts, I have found the following entries. Thought the contest has ended, you can still post your mission here for the fun and education of it all. Winners in each category determined by review between OSIRIS-REx Project Scientist and Social Media Lead. Congratulations. 1. Most accurate spacecraft reproduction in stock KSP with no mods Name Entry Date Proof @MarkoeZ (Winner) May 2 http://i.imgur.com/vnt7qZ0.png 2. Most accurate spacecraft reproduction with unlimited use of mods Name Entry Date Proof @Gojira1000 May 1 http://i.imgur.com/6xpkuJI.png @Wonderbreadninja (Winner) June 19 https://youtu.be/LQZfidhpIr8 http://imgur.com/a/qStp3 @TheUnamusedFox June 21 http://imgur.com/a/GKE0V @Ourworldalpha1 August 2 http://imgur.com/a/JAYHx http://imgur.com/a/rAZWE @Bev7787 Sept 3 http://i.imgur.com/mvi3u3h.png 3. Most accurate reproduction of OSIRIS-REx mission design in the KSP universe (unlimited mods) Name Entry Date Proof @Jetski March 30 http://imgur.com/a/DETSl/ @Nefrums (Winner) June 20 http://imgur.com/a/OKXcE/ @AnTREXon July 3 https://youtu.be/hiKsdMQsFTk @Thomas H. August 13 https://youtu.be/oCXegq3YlBU Lane Jain* Aug 13 https://youtu.be/9ccH_3-lGUI *Accidentally found on YouTube, but not entered here. Listed for information only. 4. Most accurate reproduction of OSIRIS-REx mission design in RSS/RO (unlimited mods) None 5. Lowest ∆V OSIRIS-REx mission design in the KSP universe to (unlimited mods) None 6. Lowest ∆V OSIRIS-REx mission design in RSS/RO (unlimited mods) None 7. Funniest and most epic fail None Upon notification, winners (and @KillAshley for including Bennu in Kopernicus) can have OSIRIS-REx swag mailed to them, if they wish to provide an address via private message. All contestants and individuals who have provided substantive contributions to this forum have permission to add this .gif to their signature: http://i.imgur.com/ZekT7hX.gif Thank you for participating and for your interest in OSIRIS-REx, NASA, and space exploration. Edited October 16, 2016 by IonStorm Having trouble getting the links to people working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkoeZ Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Wow, I won something Did not even remember participating before i got the message today (craft made in May) Thanks again for hosting this challenge, was great fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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