Conservatism and innovation in spacecraft design |
Conservatism and innovation in spacecraft design |
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Would it be fair to say that we're in the middle of a fairly conservative period with regard to spacecraft design? By this I mean that we haven't seen major innovations in propulsion, communications, power sources, shielding or avionics in the last decade, and we're not expecting to see major innovations in these areas in the next ten years. We are seeing a lot of ongoing advances in mission design, in payload, and in instrumentation. But the spacecraft themselves are changing much more slowly, and their design is increasingly dominated by heritage technologies.
Would this be a broadly true statement, or is there actually a lot of significant innovation in these areas that's going underreported? I'm sincerely curious. Doug M. |
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ADMIN NOTE:
While this thread could be an interesting dicussion on the development of spacecraft technology over the decades, the comments seem to be going around in circles and are running very close to the mark on breaching our standards of 'Acceptable Behaviour' as outlined in the Forum Rules and Guidelines. In particular: 2.1, 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 Let's all be mindful of the need to be respectful and non-argumentative. Responses to specific points raised are fine, but avoid rants please. Thanks all. |
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