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Amount of fuel onboard, Potential life expectancy?
briv1016
post Jul 1 2008, 05:53 AM
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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?

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post Dec 25 2008, 10:24 PM
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Yeah...but then again, similar sorts of things could happen to any spacecraft, anytime. Gonna repeat the mantra again: 'redundancy, redundancy, redundancy...'


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post Dec 26 2008, 05:01 AM
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My point is that it didn't have anything to do with age.


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- briv1016   Amount of fuel onboard   Jul 1 2008, 05:53 AM
- - PhilCo126   Great that made my sol Remember Mars Global Su...   Oct 31 2008, 04:02 PM
|- - tedstryk   QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Oct 31 2008, 04:02 PM)...   Dec 25 2008, 03:15 PM
- - nprev   Yeah...but then again, similar sorts of things cou...   Dec 25 2008, 10:24 PM
|- - tedstryk   My point is that it didn't have anything to do...   Dec 26 2008, 05:01 AM
|- - rlorenz   QUOTE (tedstryk @ Dec 26 2008, 12:01 AM) ...   Dec 26 2008, 04:33 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (rlorenz @ Dec 26 2008, 04:33 PM) S...   Dec 26 2008, 06:47 PM
- - nprev   Hmm. There are a lot of ways to think about this. ...   Dec 26 2008, 09:36 PM
- - tty   In my experience the critical resource in keeping ...   Dec 27 2008, 03:09 PM
- - kenny   Hard to know quite where to put this post, but ...   Sep 17 2012, 10:52 AM

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