Group Scenarios

The scenarios for the last group games at the 2010 soccer world-cup are as follows:

Group B:

• Argentina beats Greece & Korea beats / draws Nigeria: 1. Argentina, 2. Korea
• Argentina beats Greece & Nigeria beats Korea: 1. Argentina, 2. Nigeria
• Argentina draws Greece & Korea beats Nigeria: 1. Argentina, 2. Korea
• Argentina draws Greece & Korea draws Nigeria: 1. Argentina, 2. Korea (unless Greece scored 2 or more goals more than Korea, then Greece is 2nd)
• Argentina draws Greece & Nigeria beats Korea: 1. Argentina, 2. Greece
• Greece beats Argentina by 1 & Korea beats Nigeria by 4: 1. Korea, 2. Argentina
• Greece beats Argentina by 1 & Korea beats Nigeria by 2 or 3: 1. Argentina, 2. Korea
• Greece beats Argentina by 1 & Korea beats Nigeria by 1: 1. Argentina, 2. Korea (unless Greece scores 2 or more goals more than Korea, then Greece is 2nd)
• Greece beats Argentina by 1 & Nigeria draws/beats Korea: 1. Argentina, 2. Greece
• Greece beats Argentina by 2 & Korea beats Nigeria by 3 or 4: 1. Korea, 2. Argentina
• Greece beats Argentina by 2 & Korea beats Nigeria by 2: 1. Argentina, 2. Korea (unless Greece scores 2 or more goals more than Korea, then Greece is 2nd)
• Greece beats Argentina by 2 & Korea beats by 1 / draw / lose to Nigeria: 1. Argentina, 2. Greece

Spaceoutreach will be back

Spaceoutreach.com has been temporally suspended. To be back in the future …

Books by Colin Burgess

Colin Burgess has written a series of interesting books on manned spaceflight and aviation. Some of them can be found at the University of Nebraska Press website. His books include:

• Australia’s Astronauts: Countdown to a Spaceflight Dream, 2009
• The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies, with Rex Hall, 2009
• In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969, with Francis French, 2007
• Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965, with Francis French, 2007
• Animals In Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle, with Chris Dubbs, 2007
• NASA’s Scientist-Astronauts, with David Shayler, 2006
• Fallen Astronauts: Heroes who Died Reaching for the Moon, with Kate Doolan, 2003
• Teacher In Space: Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger Legacy, 2000
• Australia’s Astronauts: Three Men and a Spaceflight Dream, 1999
• Oceans to Orbit: The Story of Australia’s First Man in Space, Paul Scully-Power, 1995
• Space, the New Frontier, 1987

Mars Express orbital data is now available

The Mars Express realtime simulation at http://www.dmuller.net/mex now includes trajectory information on the spacecrafts orbit around Mars on a trial basis. Unfortunately I have problems uploading data for Phobos so at present information regarding distance etc. to Phobos cannot be displayed. Working on it.

Voyager 2 Data Adjustment

Voyager 2 trajectory data has been adjusted to match output by the Voyager 2 team tweets. Data provided in JPL’s Horizons system was about 2 light seconds (~600,000km) off.

Ready for Rhea and Helene

The realtime simulation of the Cassini mission has been updated to show the upcoming close encounters with Rhea and Helene (March 2 & 3). Unfortunately, the solar system simulator does not have Helene in it so I cannot link in the usual simulated views.

Mission Tweets

The Voyager 2 realtime simulation now shows the mission tweets. Hope to expand that to more mission and other pages on the site.

EDIT: This feature is now also available for Herschel, Planck, Kepler, MSL (Curiosity), MESSENGER, Spirit, Opportunity, New Horizons and Cassini

Display Errors Fixed

Whilst upgrading the background processes to allow for the upcoming Cassini multiple flybys, I have also fixed some errors that occurred in missions where there is no distance flown information available.

Soccer: Euro 2012 Qualifiers Draw

Qualifying Status as at 10 Feb 2010:

• Co-hosts (2): Poland, Ukraine
• Group winners (9): Group A, Group B, Group C, Group D, Group E, Group F, Group G, Group H, Group I
• Best runner-up (1): best runner-up
• Winners of play-offs (4): Play-off 1, Play-off 2, Play-off 3, Play-off 4

Groups:

• A: Germany, Turkey, Austria, Belgium, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan
• B: Russia, Slovakia, Ireland, Macedonia, Armenia, Andorra
• C: Italy, Serbia, Northern Ireland, Slovenia, Estonia, Faroe Islands
• D: France, Romania, Bosnia, Belarus, Albania, Luxembourg
• E: Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Moldova, San Marino
• F: Croatia, Greece, Israel, Latvia, Georgia, Malta
• G: England, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Wales, Montenegro
• H: Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Cyprus, Iceland
• I: Spain, Czech Republic, Scotland, Lithuania, Liechtenstein

Saturn Extended Extended Mission Approved

The Cassini mission had its extended-extended mission approved and will run until 15 Sep 2017 when it will be deliberately crashed into Saturn (to protect Titan from Earthlings contamination). I have uploaded the new timeline as well as the general trajectory (the data that the system will fall back on when the segment trajectory data runs out). The latest segment trajectory is up as well and runs to early March 2010. Go Cassini!