Comments on: Chinese moon map from Chang’e released

By: China will make full Moon image maps available — in print only « Paviavio

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 04:47:44 +0000

[...] has long been claiming that all Chinese nationals can have access to Chang’e-1′s data” after its launch in October 2007. In late 2008, China published one symbolic digital lunar [...]

By: Svetoslav Alexandrov

Svetoslav Alexandrov — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:47:14 +0000

OK, thank you. Now it’s much better! I allow my images to be used if a hyperlink is placed and a credit line is given.

By: Hendrik

Hendrik — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:12:16 +0000

Sorry, I had to change the picture to make it fit on the blog given the limited width, link to the unmannedspaceflight forum added.

By: Svetoslav Alexandrov

Svetoslav Alexandrov — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:20:03 +0000

Why didn’t you create your own comparison images? Why did you have to take the images from unmannedspaceflight.com?

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=3105&st=90&start=90

And why did you remove the name and the website?

I spent almost a hour to make the comparison and to add the explaination to the images.

By: Hendrik

Hendrik — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:41:36 +0000

ESA has a long tradition of non-information. Yes they broadcast their Ariane launches on the evening news quite often and give out flashy booklets, however when it comes to returned science data of their missions they are quite lacking.

Example:
For planetary missions, NASA releases all incoming pictures into science archives, even the bad pictures, which are out of focus. They publish every single one.

The ESA Mission VenusExpress to Venus was the opposite. When Venus was reached, ESA had a press conference and a press kit. The there was 1 year of total silence from that mission. Under the pressure of the public they finally opend their archives.

The Cassini mission to Saturn is super successful. It’s a NASA ESA cooperation. Yet ESA only gave out some limited flashy brochures. NASA instead is publishing every single image, even navigational images.

The list could be continued endless.

If You can read German, check here for the reasons, read the comments (long):
http://www.scienceblogs.de/planeten/2008/07/leo-ist-tot-es-lebe-leo.php

By: justrecently

justrecently — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:46:53 +0000

They offer a calendar for free there on the NASA website. The printing costs are on us, of course. That's no realtime, but it seems that you can spot the ISS in the sky once in a while...

By: Aremonus

Aremonus — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:47:20 +0000

IIt’s interestring that you say the PR of ESA was far behind the one of NASA – when watching a live rocket lunch of boths agencies, I found ESA gives far more background information and is censoring less than the American counterpart – the US NASA just communicates more actively what could be possible if… in order to get money – ESA publishes what they REALLY do.
Also, it is important to distinguish between the space agencies and the universities. Be aware that most scientific publications are much more simplified in the US in order to show the common people: “hey, we’re part of you, we help you!”, whilst in Europe, scientists are more elitist.
This fact, again, is based on the diffrent ways governments allocate ressources to scientists: In USA, the money goes to the hippest sciences – in Europe, budgets are much more continous.
Both systems have their advantages and features – but I am quite sure that ESA hands out any publication you’re intrested in if you ask them – aslong as it is not secret, of course.