New ESA Outer Planet Mission Candidates, ESA candidate missions to Outer Planets |
New ESA Outer Planet Mission Candidates, ESA candidate missions to Outer Planets |
Oct 19 2007, 06:02 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 73 Joined: 14-June 05 From: Cambridge, MA Member No.: 411 |
The European Space Agency has just released a list of candidate missions for the 2015-2025 time frame. Among then is a mission to explore Titan and Enceladus:
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM1IQAMS7F_index_2.html Is it too ambitious? And how does it jive with the Flagship missions NASA is thinking about? - John Sheff Cambridge, MA |
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Oct 20 2007, 03:35 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 544 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Oklahoma Member No.: 557 |
First, am I reading that article correctly? Out of the nine proposals total, two will be selected? There could easily be no solar system mission if that's true.
No, I personlly don't think it's too ambitious if you're willing to spend the necessary cash for it. The Cassini-Huygens dataset should easily support planning for a mission like this. |
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