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Dec 1 2005, 12:11 AM
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Excerpt from a News article by Jenny Hogan in the December 1, 2005, issue of Nature:
"The [funding] situation has led to speculation that BepiColombo, a mission destined for a 2013 launch to Mercury, might be cancelled. 'That is the big danger painted in the sky,' says Karl-Heinz Glassmeier, principal investigator on one of the instruments proposed for the spacecraft. "Nerves were set jangling about the project, which also involves the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, after it was postponed because the initial design was too heavy. That problem seems to have been solved, but officials say the estimated cost of the mission, at 600 million [euros] to 650 million [euros], is still more than 100 million [euros] above target." Reference: Europe's cash crisis puts space plans under threat Jenny Hogan Nature 438, 542-543 (2005) doi:10.1038/438542a Full Text |
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Dec 30 2013, 10:57 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
Looks like a far lower orbit than even MESSENGER can manage, so not as much a repeat as I thought before... In most areas it's not a repeat of MESSENGER. Cameras can do regularly imaging at 5m/pix from 400 km and in color (MESSENGER only BW). High resolution imaging of the south polar region will be possible. They have stereo cameras. Laser altimeter can do topographic map for whole planet (MESSENGER only north hemisphere). X-ray spectrometers has higher resolution. Bepi-Colombo has thermal infrared spectrometer and another instruments, which are not on MESSENGER. It's two spacecraft mission! And so on. -------------------- |
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Dec 30 2013, 02:48 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14448 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
(MESSENGER only BW). Untrue. The MDIS system has filters wheels for color imaging - hence, for example - http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/scienc...p?image_id=1226 |
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