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post May 5 2011, 08:48 PM
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Ahoy mateys!

NASA announces Discovery mission selection for Phase A.

Titan Mare Explorer (TiME) is among them. Har!
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post May 17 2011, 12:34 AM
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One thing to consider is that TiME will require VERY long periods of DSN use since the bitrate is going to be relatively low. That may be as much of a limiting factor as anything else.


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- rlorenz   TiME   May 5 2011, 08:48 PM
- - centsworth_II   Long may this thread live! To 2023 and beyond...   May 5 2011, 09:01 PM
- - Juramike   Whatever floats your boat! Congratulation...   May 5 2011, 09:09 PM
- - ngunn   And a hearty cheer from me. I worked at sea for...   May 5 2011, 09:20 PM
- - Drkskywxlt   Congratulations, Ralph, and also to your team!   May 5 2011, 11:57 PM
- - nprev   Wow, Ralph, MAJOR congrats!!! This pro...   May 6 2011, 12:00 AM
- - titanicrivers   Excellent! Something to really look forward t...   May 6 2011, 12:25 AM
- - punkboi   I hope TiME gets chosen in 2016. Outer Planet miss...   May 6 2011, 02:11 AM
|- - SFJCody   I also prefer TiME to the other candidates. METNET...   May 6 2011, 02:27 AM
|- - stevesliva   QUOTE (SFJCody @ May 5 2011, 10:27 PM) I ...   May 6 2011, 03:47 AM
|- - Juramike   QUOTE (SFJCody @ May 5 2011, 09:27 PM) Bu...   May 6 2011, 01:37 PM
|- - tfisher   I agree: of the three announced candidate missions...   May 7 2011, 03:20 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (tfisher @ May 7 2011, 10:20 AM) .....   May 7 2011, 06:19 PM
|- - tfisher   Does anyone know what liquid methane/ethane is lik...   May 7 2011, 07:39 PM
||- - Juramike   QUOTE (tfisher @ May 7 2011, 02:39 PM) Do...   May 7 2011, 07:44 PM
||- - rlorenz   QUOTE (Juramike @ May 7 2011, 03:44 PM) G...   May 8 2011, 12:13 AM
||- - Juramike   QUOTE (rlorenz @ May 7 2011, 07:13 PM) [T...   May 8 2011, 01:40 AM
||- - jasedm   QUOTE (Juramike @ May 8 2011, 02:40 AM) t...   May 8 2011, 10:33 AM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (centsworth_II @ May 7 2011, 07:19 ...   May 7 2011, 09:03 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (ngunn @ May 7 2011, 05:03 PM) I wa...   May 7 2011, 09:16 PM
- - eoincampbell   I'm on TiME's side, Ligeia Mare, here we c...   May 6 2011, 05:00 AM
- - antipode   I like all the selected missions, but TiME seems s...   May 6 2011, 07:12 AM
- - machi   Congratulations Ralph and whole TiME team. It...   May 6 2011, 10:03 AM
- - djellison   Moreover - TiME will be quite a warm thing - so he...   May 7 2011, 08:14 PM
- - nprev   When exactly can we expect the final mission selec...   May 7 2011, 08:39 PM
- - nprev   Thanks for those slides, Cents. I'd actually ...   May 7 2011, 10:06 PM
|- - DFinfrock   QUOTE (nprev @ May 7 2011, 10:06 PM) Than...   May 8 2011, 12:33 AM
|- - tedstryk   Time seems like quite a timely proposal. Congratu...   May 8 2011, 01:35 AM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (tedstryk @ May 7 2011, 05:35 PM) a...   May 8 2011, 06:47 AM
|- - SFJCody   QUOTE (tedstryk @ May 8 2011, 11:35 AM) T...   May 8 2011, 06:58 AM
- - nprev   I see that the UMSF bad pun tradition is alive ...   May 8 2011, 09:44 AM
|- - brellis   QUOTE (nprev @ May 8 2011, 01:44 AM) I...   May 8 2011, 03:25 PM
- - machi   It looks (from scheme), that two imaging instrumen...   May 8 2011, 01:23 PM
- - centsworth_II   Unfortunately it does look a bit iffy for getting ...   May 8 2011, 01:54 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (centsworth_II @ May 8 2011, 03:54 ...   May 8 2011, 02:20 PM
|- - rlorenz   QUOTE (ugordan @ May 8 2011, 10:20 AM) Wh...   May 8 2011, 03:00 PM
||- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (rlorenz @ May 8 2011, 08:00 AM) a ...   May 8 2011, 05:10 PM
||- - eoincampbell   QUOTE (rlorenz @ May 8 2011, 07:00 AM) Ho...   May 8 2011, 06:57 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (ugordan @ May 8 2011, 09:20 AM) Yo...   May 8 2011, 05:33 PM
|- - ugordan   I was under the impression the haze doesn't ...   May 8 2011, 05:53 PM
- - nprev   Ralph, although I'm sure it's proprietary ...   May 8 2011, 09:13 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   All in due...... well, you know.   May 8 2011, 09:34 PM
- - nprev   <groan>...walked right into that one!   May 8 2011, 09:55 PM
- - Explorer1   With luck, there should be a naming contest or we...   May 8 2011, 11:39 PM
- - nprev   Not a bad point, Explorer, and I think that NH was...   May 9 2011, 12:31 AM
|- - DFinfrock   QUOTE (nprev @ May 9 2011, 12:31 AM) TiME...   May 9 2011, 01:18 AM
|- - polaris   QUOTE (DFinfrock @ May 9 2011, 02:18 AM) ...   May 11 2011, 02:08 PM
- - jasedm   I vote for Shackleton's ship 'Endurance...   May 9 2011, 04:35 PM
|- - dmg   QUOTE (jasedm @ May 9 2011, 09:35 AM) I v...   May 10 2011, 12:44 PM
|- - MahFL   How about "Armada" from "The Spanis...   May 10 2011, 01:46 PM
- - nprev   I like "Admunsen"; seems like a very apr...   May 10 2011, 10:21 PM
- - djellison   Amundsen and Scott were names for the DS2 micropro...   May 10 2011, 11:13 PM
|- - tedstryk   QUOTE (djellison @ May 10 2011, 11:13 PM)...   May 10 2011, 11:36 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (tedstryk @ May 10 2011, 03:36 PM) ...   May 10 2011, 11:42 PM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (tedstryk @ May 10 2011, 03:36 PM) ...   May 11 2011, 12:38 AM
- - nprev   Argh...right, right...bummer! Hmm. Wonder if ...   May 10 2011, 11:20 PM
- - stevesliva   Call it the Cuyahoga. Volatile organics and all t...   May 10 2011, 11:33 PM
- - Drkskywxlt   How about the Fram? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...   May 10 2011, 11:40 PM
- - Bjorn Jonsson   The names of the Vikings that discovered Greenland...   May 11 2011, 01:02 AM
- - djellison   Hey - we could call it TiME.   May 11 2011, 01:53 AM
|- - tedstryk   QUOTE (djellison @ May 11 2011, 01:53 AM)...   May 11 2011, 07:09 PM
|- - Astrophil   Not an explorer, but – Coleridge: “We were the fir...   May 12 2011, 07:58 AM
- - nprev   To be sure. The clock is indeed ticking; to ans...   May 11 2011, 01:57 AM
- - Stu   It would never happen in a gazillion years, I...   May 11 2011, 02:12 PM
|- - tedstryk   Perhaps Champlain would be a good name, since he n...   May 11 2011, 05:17 PM
|- - DFinfrock   QUOTE (Stu @ May 11 2011, 02:12 PM) It wo...   May 13 2011, 01:10 AM
- - Phil Stooke   "Parachute Landing On Puddle" PLOP...   May 12 2011, 11:37 AM
- - centsworth_II   Titanic? Or -- since Time is a raft -- Kon-Tiki....   May 12 2011, 12:31 PM
- - titanicrivers   How about the good ship ARGO. (I don't have t...   May 12 2011, 12:49 PM
- - remcook   QUOTE (centsworth_II @ May 12 2011, 12:31...   May 12 2011, 02:21 PM
- - machi   Personally I like Fram and Endurance. These names ...   May 12 2011, 02:30 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   A ship out on one of the Great Lakes in cold nasty...   May 12 2011, 02:30 PM
|- - titanicrivers   QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ May 12 2011, 09:30 A...   May 12 2011, 02:54 PM
|- - DFinfrock   QUOTE (titanicrivers @ May 12 2011, 02:54...   May 13 2011, 01:02 AM
|- - AndyG   QUOTE (DFinfrock @ May 13 2011, 02:02 AM)...   May 13 2011, 10:25 AM
||- - MahFL   Cat's are a law unto themselves, ours called ...   May 13 2011, 12:55 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (DFinfrock @ May 12 2011, 06:02 PM)...   May 13 2011, 01:39 PM
- - Paolo   a technical question: any idea of the data rate of...   May 15 2011, 08:44 AM
- - Phil Stooke   My concern too - coupled with the brief mission af...   May 15 2011, 03:49 PM
- - nprev   On the other hand, it's gonna have gobs of pow...   May 15 2011, 05:20 PM
- - mchan   Just because TiME will use an ASRG (or two) does n...   May 15 2011, 09:11 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (mchan @ May 15 2011, 05:11 PM) ......   May 16 2011, 02:16 PM
- - Bjorn Jonsson   An extremely crude back-of-the-envelope calculatio...   May 15 2011, 10:39 PM
- - ngunn   I'm on board. There's no fatal flaw with t...   May 15 2011, 10:49 PM
- - Bjorn Jonsson   Thinking more about this, the Galileo LGA might be...   May 15 2011, 11:07 PM
- - stevesliva   And of course, as long as the descent imaging and ...   May 15 2011, 11:39 PM
- - machi   "any idea of the data rate of TiME and of the...   May 15 2011, 11:53 PM
- - JGodbaz   Except that the vast majority of the data will pro...   May 16 2011, 01:08 PM
|- - rlorenz   QUOTE (JGodbaz @ May 16 2011, 08:08 AM) E...   May 17 2011, 05:35 AM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (rlorenz @ May 16 2011, 09:35 PM) M...   May 17 2011, 06:07 AM
|- - rlorenz   QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ May 17 2011, 01:07 A...   May 19 2011, 03:54 AM
- - tanjent   Good point. Roughly speaking the Earth should be v...   May 16 2011, 03:08 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (tanjent @ May 16 2011, 10:08 AM) ....   May 16 2011, 04:12 PM
|- - Bjorn Jonsson   QUOTE (centsworth_II @ May 16 2011, 04:12...   May 16 2011, 04:41 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (Bjorn Jonsson @ May 16 2011, 12:41...   May 16 2011, 04:42 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   I suppose engineering specifics are way down the r...   May 16 2011, 03:10 PM
- - Bjorn Jonsson   No, it won't happen (unless you get a *very* l...   May 16 2011, 05:02 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (Bjorn Jonsson @ May 16 2011, 12:02...   May 16 2011, 08:46 PM
- - helvick   Dan - I wouldn't have thought that sort of tem...   May 16 2011, 05:21 PM
- - nprev   One thing to consider is that TiME will require VE...   May 17 2011, 12:34 AM
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