Cryosat Mission Feared Lost |
Cryosat Mission Feared Lost |
Oct 8 2005, 06:15 PM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4319596.stm
Mission control at ESA is growing increasingly concerned about the fate of Europe's ice monitoring spacecraft, Cryosat. The Cryosat spacecraft was launched at 1902 local time today, Oct 8, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, but mission controllers have failed to receive a signal from the spacecraft. |
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Oct 17 2005, 02:52 AM
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Yes, I read that. (As I understand it, it's still uncertain whether the 1964 Zond 2 mission carried a lander or not; if it did, it would have been predicated on the assumption that Mars' atmosphere was dense enough to allow a soft landing with just a parachute.)
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Oct 17 2005, 02:41 PM
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QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Oct 16 2005, 09:52 PM) Yes, I read that. (As I understand it, it's still uncertain whether the 1964 Zond 2 mission carried a lander or not; if it did, it would have been predicated on the assumption that Mars' atmosphere was dense enough to allow a soft landing with just a parachute.) Andrew Lepage wrote about Zond 2 in the April, 1991 issue of the EJASA. His conclusion was that the probe did have a landing capsule, but that the Soviets assumed Mars had a thicker atmosphere than it did, so that even if Zond 2 did release its lander, the craft would have likely crashed on the Martian surface. The issue and article can be found here: ftp://ftp.seds.org/pub/info/newsletters/e...91/jasa9104.txt -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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