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Aug 7 2011, 09:46 AM
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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 |
'Red Dragon' Mission Mulled as Cheap Search for Mars Life
any opinion on this? would it really make sense adapting a manned spaceship to unmanned Mars landing? I am skeptical... if replying, please remember forum guideline 1.5 |
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May 30 2016, 04:57 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
There was a fairly thorough discussion of potential Red Dragon applications earlier in this thread.
I personally think that the first flight of this system will be largely focused on EDL data acquisition and vehicle performance assessment to the probable exclusion of any science objectives, esp. given the fact that the launch window is (barely) two years away. That is very little preparation time for almost any space mission (let alone a planetary landing) and thus there are a very large number of things that have to go perfectly for something of this complexity to meet the launch date at all, not the least of which being availability of the F9 Heavy booster. So--expectation management. Let's see how this plays out. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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