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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 ![]() |
Just read this interesting article about LRO
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/28apr_lro.htm QUOTE "This is the first in a string of missions," says Gordon Chin, project scientist for LRO at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "More robots will follow, about one per year, leading up to manned flight" no later than 2020." One per Year? Is this just wishful thinking or have any tentitve plans been mentioned for follow up missions after LRO? If the next one is going to be 2009/10 then I guess some desisions about it will have to be made fairly soon. James -------------------- |
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QUOTE (SFJCody @ Sep 4 2005, 04:10 PM) Humm, 0.5 m/pixel... meanwhile, maybe someone didn't notice:SMART-1 views Glushko crater on the Moon (150m/pixel ![]() -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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QUOTE (dilo @ Sep 7 2005, 03:05 AM) Humm, 0.5 m/pixel... meanwhile, maybe someone didn't notice:SMART-1 views Glushko crater on the Moon (150m/pixel ![]() Sure Dilo, the resolution of AMIE camera is not very impressive but don't forget that SMART-1 is a technologic demonstrator (ion propulsion, advanced solar panels, new communications and navigational techniques testing, miniaturization...). SMART means "Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology". The miniaturization objective results in having a dozen of technological and scientific payloads weighting only 19 kg, for a total spacecraft mass of 370 kg. Below, an idea of the size of the ultra-compact visible and near-IR camera. |
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http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/ind...8980.xml&coll=1
http://www.al.com/printer/printer.ssf?/bas...8980.xml&coll=1 Marshall hopes lunar lander makes return trips Scientist says probe isn't seen as 'one-shot effort' Monday, January 02, 2006 By SHELBY G. SPIRES Times Aerospace Writer, shelbys@htimes.com Before America sends astronauts back to the moon, NASA scientists want to find minerals and water that could help sustain life on the lunar surface. About 10 people at Marshall Space Flight Center and another 40 at NASA sites around the country are developing what NASA engineers believe will be a complex, unmanned lunar lander that will serve as a test run for a manned lunar lander. The probe isn't considered a "one-shot effort like the unmanned lunar efforts in the past," said John Horack, the program manager. When Apollo astronauts were headed to the moon in the 1960s, NASA launched several probes to orbit and land on the moon. This time, NASA wants to put as much as possible into basically two probes: the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Marshall's lunar lander. The rest at the above links. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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