Jupiter flagship selected |
Jupiter flagship selected |
Feb 18 2009, 03:47 PM
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Feb 19 2009, 09:35 PM
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Something that I can't figure out is how large the solar panels would be for the ESA JGO. JGO is much heavier on the imaging and spectroscopy than say Juno, and no one has tried to perform a "flagship" class mission this far from the Sun. (Sure there is Rosetta, but its primary mission sweeps back toward the Sun after the comet rendez-vous.) Can ESA pull off a large solar powered mission so far from the sun without having prohibitively large (and heavy) solar panels?
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