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Aug 25 2005, 11:22 AM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4180840.stm
Europe has fixed on a concept for its next mission to land on the Red Planet. It aims to send a single robot rover to the Martian surface along with another, stationary, science package. |
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Oct 19 2009, 12:56 AM
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There is updated information on the ESA/NASA 2016 orbiter/lander and 2018 ExoMars mission in the October 19 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology (you have to be a subscriber to access the article online). Most interesting is that the 2016 lander has grown from 200 kg (see post 267 in this thread) to 600 kg. This would allow a "large battery-powered science payload." ExoMars would basically stay the same as previously envisioned, with NASA supplying the launch vehicle and skycrane EDL system, and ESA supplying everything else. The battery-powered 2016 lander would have to do its science mission pretty quickly. I wonder if that might change to solar power in the next iteration of planning?
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