MSL reasons for delay |
MSL reasons for delay |
Mar 4 2009, 03:33 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2547 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
I wanted to make sure that everyone interested sees Adrian Brown's articles at http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1319/1 and http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1318/1 about the technical and budgetary problems with MSL that led to the launch slip. While I can't claim to be privy to the budgetary and political issues at the mission level, the technical discussion seems like a fair summary of the situation as I understand it, at least as good a one as can be gathered from public sources.
People in other forums have complained about errors in these articles, but without giving specific examples or providing any factual basis for their objections. I don't find that very useful. If there are real flaws in this account, I'd be quite interested to know what they are. p.s. I guess we need to change the name of this subforum. -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Jul 11 2009, 03:06 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 279 Joined: 19-August 07 Member No.: 3299 |
And hope that these probably existence of solar panels must have their own self cleaning mechanics by applying the learned lessons from MER's experience.
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Jul 11 2009, 04:45 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
the learned lessons from MER's experience. The lessons learned from MER experience is that actually, you can get away without cleaning solar arrays.(to a certain extent) If having a vertical panel is the answer, how come we still have to clean our TVs and Monitors? We've already got threads on solar array cleaning - this isn't the place. |
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Jul 11 2009, 06:44 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
If having a vertical panel is the answer, how come we still have to clean our TVs and Monitors? The dirt that sticks to a monitor is nothing compared to what built up on Spirit's panels before their latest cleaning. For that matter, the top of a computer monitor gets a lot dustier than its face. I would expect a vertical panel to get as dirty as the MER camera lenses. Not too bad. |
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