Tyche Or Planet-X? NASA Shuts Down Sky-Mapping Telescope!

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It's very odd that Nasa would shut down the satelitte that was created to look for cool brown dwarf stars as news of the Planet Tyche circulates around the world.

In addition to spotting asteroids and comets, the $320 million space telescope is designed to detect the faint glow of distant objects, such as strangely cool brown dwarf stars.

NASA Shuts Down Prolific Sky-Mapping Space Telescope

Space.com space.com – Sat Feb 19, 9:00 am ET
A prolific sky-mapping telescope that has spent more than a year scanning the heavens for asteroids, comets and other cosmic objects received its last command today (Feb. 17).

NASA shut down its WISE spacecraft – short for Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer – at 3:00 p.m. EST (2000 UTC) today. The mission's principal investigator, Ned Wright of the University of California in Los Angeles, sent the final command to the now-hibernating spacecraft, according to an update from the WISE mission's official Twitter account.

"The WISE spacecraft will remain in hibernation without ground contacts awaiting possible future use," NASA officials said via Twitter.

WISE launched on Dec. 14, 2009 to begin a 10-month mission to collect data to be stitched together into a composite map of the entire sky. The spacecraft surveyed the cosmos in infrared light, which allowed it to peer through dense layers of dust to capture stunning space photos of previously unseen objects in unprecedented detail.

In addition to spotting asteroids and comets, the $320 million space telescope is designed to detect the faint glow of distant objects, such as strangely cool brown dwarf stars.

Over the course of its mission, WISE scanned the sky 1 1/2 times, taking about 1.8 million images of asteroids, stars and galaxies. The spacecraft also spotted 19 previously unseen comets and more than 33,500 asteroids, including 120 near-Earth objects, which are objects with orbits that pass relatively close to Earth's own orbit around the sun.

In late September 2010, WISE ran out of the coolant needed to chill its infrared detectors.

The observatory then began an extended mission, dubbed the NEOWISE Post-Cryogenic Mission. Without coolant to prevent its instruments from warming up, WISE operated on two of its four detectors, training its eyes on objects within our solar system.

Since the spacecraft and telescope were in good condition prior to mission's end, Wright proposed a three-month extension in order to complete the second half of the observatory's second sky survey. In May 2010, a NASA panel advised against the extension, however, which would have added $6.5 million to the program's price tag.

After WISE's coolant ran out, mission scientists came up with an alternative plan – the NEOWISE mission – to seek out near-Earth asteroids. That mission extension cost substantially less, about $400,000, NASA officials have said

You can follow SPACE.com Staff Writer Denise Chow on Twitter @denisechow.

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[Redwoodrick Profile]

Hmm...sounds to me like it ran out of coolant and was sent to sleep mode?

[Boondox681 Profile]

Hmm...sounds to me like it ran out of coolant and was sent to sleep mode?

wow.you believe nasa?they've only been lying to us for 60 years.

[The57ironman Profile]

Hmm...sounds to me like it ran out of coolant and was sent to sleep mode?

wow.you believe nasa?they've only been lying to us for 60 years.

beat me to it......

[Stratafire Profile]

Here's the kicker..

The primary "coolant" that keeps the lenses and sensor package to the lowest level available for cooling, is a liquid based, pump fed, low temperature chemical concoction, that is valve controlled (for conditions that cause realignment of the satellite) using "heat pump" principles , to cool the sensitive packages to a nominal level..

It's done by using the side that faces the solar wind, to "heat" the injector side of the pump, and uses this to force pressure convections to move the "coolant" from the "dark side" of the satellite, through the equipment, and back to the dark side again..

On board coolant is an "initializer" (start up) procedure, a backup supply (if the pump, and backup pump fails), and finally, "open space" evacuation is an emergency procedure to cool the equipment (but means the satellite is doomed for failure eventually)

They are lying to you, "have been" lying to you, and continue to do so about the state of satellite technologies..

Space is the best source for both power, and for cooling/heating .. nothing beats it, as it is an infinite supply for operations..

[Hackjames Profile]

Here's the kicker..

The primary "coolant" that keeps the lenses and sensor package to the lowest level available for cooling, is a liquid based, pump fed, low temperature chemical concoction, that is valve controlled (for conditions that cause realignment of the satellite) using "heat pump" principles , to cool the sensitive packages to a nominal level..

It's done by using the side that faces the solar wind, to "heat" the injector side of the pump, and uses this to force pressure convections to move the "coolant" from the "dark side" of the satellite, through the equipment, and back to the dark side again..

On board coolant is an "initializer" (start up) procedure, a backup supply (if the pump, and backup pump fails), and finally, "open space" evacuation is an emergency procedure to cool the equipment (but means the satellite is doomed for failure eventually)

They are lying to you, "have been" lying to you, and continue to do so about the state of satellite technologies..

Space is the best source for both power, and for cooling/heating .. nothing beats it, as it is an infinite supply for operations..

Assuming what you've described about the functionality is true, that is an excellent point. Not to call you a liar, I just don't know and probably won't bother to check (as I'm already convinced that NASA bends/breaks the truth regularly).

[Redwoodrick Profile]

Not on the fence about the liars at NASA..just not jumping on the Nibiru train as I think it is a lot of bullshit instigated by an author who did not have the understanding of the language which he has claimed.

[Hackjames Profile]

Not on the fence about the liars at NASA..just not jumping on the Nibiru train as I think it is a lot of bullshit instigated by an author who did not have the understanding of the language which he has claimed.

I'd mostly agree about that particular author, but there are several other sources relating "Tyche" besides him, both contemporary and antiquated. There really is a lot to consider.

[Nilm33 Profile]

I too never bought into the planet x idea. But there is just one scientificly proven fact that I cant avoid, and that being that the sun is speeding up as it progresses through space. The only known reason it would be speeding up is if it was being influenced by some other large object. I recall hearing this from an astronomer who also didnt believe in the planet x idea.... Until after measuring the suns rate of travel in space for 20 years, and learning that it is exponentially speeding up.


Something is coming, we only wish it was as small as a planet..

[Newdawnrising Profile]

Nemesis not nibiru. Nibiru, the frieghtner, the destroyer... maybe the mythical object(s) that orbit our dark twin.