2009 Or 2011 ?, 1 or 2 ? |
2009 Or 2011 ?, 1 or 2 ? |
May 3 2005, 11:11 AM
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Does anybody know when and how many MSL will go, or when the decision on this will be made ?
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Mar 26 2006, 11:02 PM
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There never seems to have been any serious discussion of trying to run two MSLs at one time (which would be, as you say, insanely difficult). What I was talking about was that, up until late last year, they WERE talking about sometimes launching a Mars Scout in the same window as another bigger mission and running those two missions simultaneously. In fact, when Bush's "Mars Human Precursor" program was still around, they were talking briefly about flying THREE missions simultaneously in 2013. All that's gone.
I should also add that the concept of flying two "Midrovers" simultaneously is also very, very tentative at this point -- there hasn't even been any serious study yet as to whether rovers that size could really do the kind of surface studies they want in order to extend MSL's search for actual organic traces on Mars, let alone whether they could run two of them simultaneously (or would want to, given the fact that the MER project came pretty close to driving the staff of JPL into a collective nervous breakdown). |
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