Amount of fuel onboard, Potential life expectancy? |
Amount of fuel onboard, Potential life expectancy? |
Jul 1 2008, 05:53 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 239 Joined: 18-December 07 From: New York Member No.: 3982 |
Assuming that there are no MGS type anomalies and funding holds out (according to NASA's FY09 budget, the current extension ends in September); how much longer can Odyssey remain operational with the fuel onboard?
(I know you guys are strict about starting new threads, but I couldn't find any other thread related to this topic.) |
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Jul 1 2008, 07:40 AM
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http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/newsroom/.../20040825b.html
...The spacecraft has enough fuel onboard to keep operating through this decade and the next at current consumption rates. A google search hints at far more details here - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=A...78ab683f86ac8c3 - but it's clearly a pay-for paper. "Odyssey was the first Mars relay satellite conforming to the CCSDS ... With 37 kg of fuel remaining and fuel use at a level of less than 1 kg/year, ..." Not sure if that's a contiguous citation from the ScienceDirect paper. Doug |
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