Odyssey and MER Budgets Cut |
Odyssey and MER Budgets Cut |
Mar 24 2008, 09:11 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 12-March 08 Member No.: 4062 |
Just found out today at a MER all-hands meeting that both MER and Odyssey will each be suffering an immediate $4 million budget cut to help defray the cost of MSL. Read more here: http://martianchronicles.wordpress.com/200...rs-budget-cuts/
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Mar 25 2008, 05:02 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
"in this discussion," Mike, "in this discussion." Most people hanging out on UMSF are more than a little emotionally connected to the MERs and have less situational awareness of what's going on with the orbiters -- I figured, since you'd spoken up on Odyssey's behalf, you'd have more to say about what it's currently doing. I've been wondering about the value of long-term THEMIS atmospheric monitoring. Obviously MRO has MCS to do weather monitoring, but the MCS guys haven't yet delivered higher-level data products, and I'll bet having the THEMIS data set overlapping with them will help a lot -- especially since the elevation actuator problem on MCS has severely limited their ability to do nadir-pointing measurements.
To show you how much I (don't) know, I was under the mistaken impression that GRS was no longer taking data. That's one case where "more data good" is a pretty clear-cut benefit, for the reasons you mention. --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Mar 25 2008, 05:12 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2542 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
I was under the mistaken impression that GRS was no longer taking data. Don't get me wrong, it may not be. I'm only involved with Odyssey to the extent that I get consulted when there's a hiccup with the THEMIS hardware, which hasn't happened for a while now. EDIT: GRS is still releasing products to the PDS (last was in Jan 08). Could you be thinking of MARIE, which has been shut down for a while now? -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Mar 25 2008, 07:02 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 754 Joined: 9-February 07 Member No.: 1700 |
Edit: just read your link, Phil - what a relief!
Regarding sponsorship, why shouldn't Google take up the slack on keeping mapping data flowing? "Google Mars" to the rescue! |
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