MSL Cost Caps and de-scoping - Sept '07 |
MSL Cost Caps and de-scoping - Sept '07 |
Sep 16 2007, 07:43 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 370 Joined: 12-September 05 From: France Member No.: 495 |
Very bad news.
It's certainly the best way to run the business of cost overruns but even if we are used to these kind of consequences, it's always sad to hear. NASA cuts LANL sampler from next Mars rover http://www.lamonitor.com/articles/2007/09/...news/news02.txt Edit : And also... http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/sto...p;channel=space http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.rss.sp....html?pid=25415 ... removal of the Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) and the zoom capability on the mast camera... ... SAM and CheMin were cost-capped... |
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Nov 9 2007, 07:50 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
A difficult trade - but I'm very very glad that MARDI is back. No word on MastCam though sadly.
Doug |
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Nov 9 2007, 08:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 656 Joined: 20-April 05 From: League City, Texas Member No.: 285 |
...No word on MastCam though... I wasn't so concerned about MARDI, but I really hope that they manage to restore the zoom capability to MastCam. The hidef video capability of the camera virtually mandates the zoom capability, otherwise it will be like looking at the world through a tunnel; aside from that, the zoom is a nice-to-have feature, but otherwise we've gotten pretty good at assembling panoramas - and it is still a color camera without the need of filters. |
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