Hayabusa - The Return To Earth, The voyage home |
Hayabusa - The Return To Earth, The voyage home |
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...starting a new thread for Hayabusa's sampling feedback and the return voyage.
After its nail-biting success in November, will there be enough fuel for the Falcon to make it home? -------------------- --O'Dave
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Oh, I'm not saying that Hayabusa was a failure. Far from it. I'm just saying that to brand her "the little spacecraft that could" when she quite literally could *not* do several of the things she was designed to do is a little bit like calling Galileo a 100% successful mission. Or calling the Ranger program a resounding success because three of the nine spacecraft worked properly. Or like insisting that Deep Impact would have been a really great mission even if it hadn't managed to hit the comet with its impactor. Or like hailing the MERs as great successes even if they had never been able to roll off of their landers.
MGS was a spacecraft that could. So are the MERs. Each achieved all of its pre-flight mission objectives, and then some. Even though Hayabusa returned an awful lot of really good data and images, a lot of its major objectives weren't achieved. I was really looking forward to seeing data from Minerva, for example, and I'm still disappointed that the whole sequence got fouled up. Hayabusa is at best a partially successful mission. I truly appreciate what it managed to accomplish but to hail it with such superlatives when it partially failed seems wrong to me. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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