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Posted by Thomas Lee Elifritz on November 14, 2006, 4:24 pm
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Get over it.
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Posted by Brian Gaff on November 15, 2006, 4:47 am
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Not heard the latest myself, but I'd not have thought a dodgy panel motor
was too much of a problem. I seem to recall that there were problems with
the arrays at the very start though.
Brian
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Posted by Thomas Lee Elifritz on November 15, 2006, 10:26 am
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> Not heard the latest myself, but I'd not have thought a dodgy panel motor
> was too much of a problem. I seem to recall that there were problems with
> the arrays at the very start though.
I used to think Mars was a small planet.
It was a great mission, but I do believe it's over. Cigars all around.
Don't we have better things to do, like drive the rovers as fast as
possible away from any glaring evidence of water or putative fossils?
Certainly anyone can see the need for a new large Deep Space Network
now. To the asteroids it doesn't have to be that large, just redundant.
We need a CERES Reconnaissance Orbiter, and we need a generic DAWN class
spacecraft capable of survey missions to multiple large asteroids.
All of this is going to require large bandwidth to the asteroids.
For Mars, we're going to need cheap generic rovers.
Bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth.
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Posted by Ed Kyle on November 16, 2006, 12:30 am
Please log in for more thread options It would be seriously bad news were something like this to happen to a
solar-powered Orion spacecraft - especially while the crew were on the
lunar surface. If the thing drifts out of solar panel alignment for
just a few hours, it is "lights out" - permanently.
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Posted by Thomas Lee Elifritz on November 16, 2006, 10:24 am
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> It would be seriously bad news were something like this to happen to a
> solar-powered Orion spacecraft - especially while the crew were on the
> lunar surface. If the thing drifts out of solar panel alignment for
> just a few hours, it is "lights out" - permanently.
Good point. Another good example of bad decision making.
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