No More Netlander? |
No More Netlander? |
Feb 27 2005, 05:09 AM
Post
#1
|
|
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 81 Joined: 25-February 05 From: New Jersey Member No.: 177 |
I haven't heard anything about Netlander in about 2 years. Can I assume safely that it has been cancelled? I never heard that officially.
-------------------- ----------------------------------------------
"Too low they build, who build beneath the stars." - Edward Young |
|
|
Feb 27 2005, 06:03 AM
Post
#2
|
|
Member Group: Members Posts: 295 Joined: 2-March 04 From: Central California Member No.: 45 |
QUOTE (MiniTES @ Feb 26 2005, 09:09 PM) I haven't heard anything about Netlander in about 2 years. Can I assume safely that it has been cancelled? I never heard that officially. A simple google search lead to this: http://discovery.nasa.gov/news_031403b.html Postponed until no earlier than 2009 -------------------- Eric P / MizarKey
|
|
|
Feb 27 2005, 10:49 AM
Post
#3
|
|
Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
There's still much debate about a possible netlander.
Part of ESA's Aurora program is landing demonstrator on Mars. Now, one option is to send a 'Beagle-3'. This is what the English want. Then, one can also send a Netlander type mission. This is basically what the French and Germans want. Let the politiking begin... Netlander was quite far developed anyway. It will return as a mission at some point. Question is when |
|
|
Guest_BruceMoomaw_* |
Feb 27 2005, 12:23 PM
Post
#4
|
Guests |
It's definitely dead for now -- it was the first and biggest casualty of the new French legislature's major budget cuts in government science spending.
That being said, something of the sort needs to be flown to Mars at some point, and I find it had to believe that all the development work France did on Netlander before it was cancelled will go for naught. Maybe the ESA as a whole will restart it at some point; conceivably it could even be the subject of a US-European collaboration. |
|
|
Feb 27 2005, 02:25 PM
Post
#5
|
|
Member Group: Members Posts: 133 Joined: 29-January 05 Member No.: 161 |
QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Feb 27 2005, 12:23 PM) That being said, something of the sort needs to be flown to Mars at some point, and I find it had to believe that all the development work France did on Netlander before it was cancelled will go for naught. Nothing is totally lost, but there's also nothing new about development work being lost. Remember the French led mini shuttle project called Hermes? or how about US DC-X/X33/X34/OSP projects ... there are more dead and canceled development projects than you can count. -------------------- |
|
|
Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 20th April 2024 - 04:23 AM |
RULES AND GUIDELINES Please read the Forum Rules and Guidelines before posting. IMAGE COPYRIGHT |
OPINIONS AND MODERATION Opinions expressed on UnmannedSpaceflight.com are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of UnmannedSpaceflight.com or The Planetary Society. The all-volunteer UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderation team is wholly independent of The Planetary Society. The Planetary Society has no influence over decisions made by the UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderators. |
SUPPORT THE FORUM Unmannedspaceflight.com is funded by the Planetary Society. Please consider supporting our work and many other projects by donating to the Society or becoming a member. |