A British lunar mission? |
A British lunar mission? |
Jan 9 2007, 11:31 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 125 Joined: 18-July 05 Member No.: 438 |
I know that BBC viewers aren't too keen on the corporation's news reports after yesterday's dark matter story, but this interesting item appeared this evening...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6246513.stm I can't find any related press releases on the PPARC and BNSC sites. Has anyone else more information? |
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Jan 10 2007, 12:02 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I like SSTL - met some of their guys in Valencia. They actually put a commercial off the shelf hard drive on a satellite and it works great - they just built a hard housing for it so it felt 'at home'. Far cheaper than coming up with that sort of storage capacity in solid state space qualified....quite cunning.. Of course, it could always crash etc.
And I must admit - I do like the romantic notion of another venture to gather support, much like Beagle 2 did, for space exploration in general in the UK But I don't see this one coming to fruition - even if for only £100M ( which, in the grand scheme of things, isn't much). The problem is, you can't spend £100M in this country without the Guardian telling you how many hospital wards it would build, the Mail telling you how many more police it could train and the Express telling you how many illegal immigrants it could return home. Doug |
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