MSL FAQ - The pool of questions |
MSL FAQ - The pool of questions |
Jun 1 2007, 03:11 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Rob Manning and I swopped emails last night - and we think it might make sense to pool all the questions people have about MSL (and specifically MSL's EDL ) into one thread - and then answer as many as make sense either via a Q'n'A in the style of the previous ones I've done with Steve and Jim - or via Rob's typing fingers.
It'll be a few weeks till we sort this out - but submit-away until then Doug |
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Jun 1 2007, 06:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
My Big list 'o Questions:
1) How scalable is this? How big (mass) a package could it deliver? (Could you put down a future habitation module on Mars, deep drilling rigs, other cool stuff?) 2) Could you use it to put down multiple instruments in different (but fairly close, locations?) [OK, you’d need to upgrade to more propellant, brains in the platform, and deal with COG issues] 3) Could you use it to move an instrument already on the surface to a new location? [lotsa propellant, more brains in the platform, getting the rendezvous and “hook up” – but heck, the stability, lowering problems will already have been solved] (Imagine if we could send a Skycrane pick up Oppy and move her to another location within a 200 km radius – this would really change the post-Victoria discussion!) 4) Could it be used to deliver other packages down on other (airless) planetary surfaces? [no chute, but using much, much more retro]? (Europa, for example). 5) Will it be possible to (exhaustively) test the Marscrane system on Earth before the big test on Mars? -Mike -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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