ESA Rosetta, news, updates and discussion |
ESA Rosetta, news, updates and discussion |
Apr 15 2005, 08:20 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 563 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 221 |
Well Rosetta isn't going to get to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Chury) till 2014, but it's not to early to set up a thread. There are a bunch of earth fly-bys, a Mars encounter at 200km in 2007 and a few asteriod passes. Not to mention the mission to land on the comet itself.
Only another nine and a half years to go. |
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Feb 20 2007, 03:02 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
I've been thinking about this issue in relation to possible future outer solar system missions, possibly with major inter-agency collaborations. One possibility would be to launch component modules separately and assemble them in Earth orbit. You could have a single interplanetary propulsion unit plus entirely independent modules for (for example) planet orbiter, moon orbiter, balloon probes module, lander - the failure of any one of which would not jeopardise the entire mission. Of course it would be desirable to have a back-up interplanetary propulsion unit on the ground that the other bits could just wait in orbit for if necessary.
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