Future Mercury Missions |
Future Mercury Missions |
Nov 21 2010, 03:20 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 |
apparently Russia has started thinking about a Mercury landing mission beyond preliminary feasibility studies.
http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=10857 Such a mission would nicely fill a niche left empty by other space agencies, but from the similar US Decadal survey study, it is not going to be a cheap one! |
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Jul 15 2021, 04:39 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 316 Joined: 1-October 06 Member No.: 1206 |
NASA Planetary Mission Concept Studies (PMCS) program concept study for a
Mercury lander in the 2023-2032 Decadal Survey timeframe 11 instrument science payload. Landing at dusk, EOM at dawn. Landing not until 2045! (thats Mercury for you I guess) https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2107/2107.06795.pdf P |
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