Jupiter flagship selected |
Jupiter flagship selected |
Feb 18 2009, 03:47 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 706 Joined: 3-December 04 From: Boulder, Colorado, USA Member No.: 117 |
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Feb 18 2009, 03:59 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
There will be some happy people, and some disappointed people. Both systems have plenty to offer, so no one should be too upset.
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Feb 18 2009, 04:28 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
For those, as I, who were looking forward for a TSSM selection here are some words that just arrived my e-mail from Athena Coustenis, TandEM project leader:
"It seems we may have to wait a little longer to see this mission launched, to plunge through Enceladus' plumes, to hover over dune fields and to land in a Titan lake. No matter. The first aim of this community is to have the need for a future space mission to the outer planets recognized and transformed into reality. We may be heading for Jupiter first, but as said in the text, and as it has been well demonstrated by the reactions within this community, the public and the press, we shall need to go even further in the future. I take this opportunity to say that during the past 15 months I have had the immense pleasure and honor to work, exchange ideas and argue with you all over the most fascinating subject ever: a future mission to return to the Saturnian system and hunt down information on fascinating aspects like Titan's atmosphere and surface, Enceladus geysers and Saturn's magnetosphere. For some of us, the adventure had even started earlier, when we were preparing the proposal for Tandem within the framework of ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 or the study of the 2007 Flagship Titan Explorer mission. I want to thank you and tell my appreciation, in particular to my friends and colleagues of the JSDT and the ESA and NASA study teams, who have managed to create a complete science and mission architecture case out of nothing within such a short time. They have done this with help from all of you. AND WE ARE READY TO GO ON." Sometimes you win sometimes you lose, the important now is that we're going somewhere...Onward Europa Jupiter System Mission! -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
Edgar Alan Poe |
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