Re:Every Space Mission Ever Flown On One Map
by ykl on Monday December 23, 2013 @06:32PM
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As cool as this map is, I eagerly await the day where we launch so many missions so often that they can't possible fit on a single map.
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Re:Every Space Mission Ever Flown On One Map
by mturmon on Monday December 23, 2013 @09:08PM
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If it makes you feel better, the Earth missions are not shown. There are a lot.
Also, they seem to have left out missions that end in the Lagrange points. L1 is about 1% of the way to the Sun, and SoHO (for one) went there in 1996 and is still operating there. L2 is 1% in the opposite direction, and WMAP and Planck are/were there in 2009 when that map was made.
Finally, I think Stereo A and B may not be not there either; they trail/lead the Earth in its orbit; now they are almost on the opposite side of the Sun compared to Earth (http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/where.shtml).