ICE is alive ! |
ICE is alive ! |
Oct 3 2008, 08:22 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 370 Joined: 12-September 05 From: France Member No.: 495 |
This information from Emily is amazing.
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001673/ ICE is alive and may perhaps be assigned to a new mission. |
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Apr 21 2012, 01:17 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 62 Joined: 11-July 11 Member No.: 6058 |
Has there been any more on this possibility? I was re-reading Emily's blog today, and I wondered if the Mission of Opportunity was going ahead or not. The last I heard (some time in the autumn) was that Robert Farquhar was pushing hard for it, but I've seen nothing anywhere about it since. It seems too good an opportunity to pass up - a mere $25 million of infrastructural investment gets you a comet flyby! (No nice pictures, I know, but still...)
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Apr 23 2012, 06:32 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Has there been any more on this possibility? I was re-reading Emily's blog today, and I wondered if the Mission of Opportunity was going ahead or not. The last I heard (some time in the autumn) was that Robert Farquhar was pushing hard for it, but I've seen nothing anywhere about it since. It seems too good an opportunity to pass up - a mere $25 million of infrastructural investment gets you a comet flyby! (No nice pictures, I know, but still...) Where did you hear the $25 million figure? BTW, it is Farquhar. It is briefly mentioned here. The fact that it would be .08 AU from earth at the time means that there would indeed be pretty pictures - just not from ICE itself. -------------------- |
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Apr 23 2012, 06:41 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
Where did you hear the $25 million figure? it is mentioned in Farquhar's bio "fifty years on the space frontiers" (p. 407): QUOTE I've estimated the total cost for the ICE extended mission to be somewhere between $20 to $25 million over a six-year period (2013-18)
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