Mars Sample Return |
Mars Sample Return |
Apr 7 2006, 07:32 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 370 Joined: 12-September 05 From: France Member No.: 495 |
Next phase reached in definition of Mars Sample Return mission
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMJAGNFGLE_index_0.html |
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Oct 19 2007, 12:59 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Hate to even bring this up, but it sure seems like we might need to fly a pathfinder technology demonstration mission before committing to the real deal...and the nasty part here is that there's no place to do it & gain any value at all in engineering terms but Mars itself.
Aside from the truly formidible problems of designing a MAV, there are a bunch of other systemic complexities and event dependencies to consider, far more IMHO than in any other UMSF effort to date. I wonder if a high-risk Discovery-class mission could designed to send a few grams back of any random Martian surface material as a bonus; the real value would be assessing the performance of all these subsystems. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 19 2007, 07:27 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
a high-risk Discovery-class mission could designed to send a few grams back of any random Martian surface material as a bonus; I can't imagine how you would land on Mars at all for a Discovery budge - let alone with any form of sample return ability. The only thing in that scale you could do is the SCIM proposal that is forever turned down in Mars Scout AO's Doug |
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Nov 4 2007, 11:52 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 17 Joined: 6-October 06 Member No.: 1230 |
I can't imagine how you would land on Mars at all for a Discovery budget Apparently what you do is use leftover hardware from a previous, cancelled Mars landed mission. Phoenix plans to land on Mars on essentially a Discovery budget. But yes, just getting MSR halfway back (e.g. to low Mars orbit) is not even in the ballpark of Discovery/Scout budgets. |
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