2009 Or 2011 ?, 1 or 2 ? |
2009 Or 2011 ?, 1 or 2 ? |
May 3 2005, 11:11 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 290 Joined: 26-March 04 From: Edam, The Netherlands Member No.: 65 |
Does anybody know when and how many MSL will go, or when the decision on this will be made ?
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May 4 2005, 11:33 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
#3 is the only one that could derive engineering changes from #1.
You have 26 months from launch-to-launch Call 8 months of that the cruise (sometimes more, sometimes less) - so you have 18 months. The MER's spent about 6 months at KSC being checked out, bolted together and stock on a firework. - Giving you 12 months to define, design, build, test, rebuild, retest, integrate, and re-test at system level any changes you want - and then re-test at a system level to ensure your changes dont impinge on any other part of the spacecraft. The only changes I could imagine being feasable are software or instruments. Doug |
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