Lunar Mission Medley |
Lunar Mission Medley |
Sep 16 2009, 10:40 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 15-September 09 Member No.: 4941 |
Hi, this is Morris Jones, a long-time lurker but new poster.
I thought it would be worth exploring a few lunar missions that don't seem to be discussed much at the moment. The exact fate of some of these missions is open to question. Let's see if we can work out what's going on. International Lunar Network: This was announced with fanfare a few years ago. Little more has been generally discussed. The whole thing seems to be going through committee meetings, with a lot of details unresolved. LADEE: Is this still on target? There were suggestions two years ago that cost overruns in the Mars Science Laboratory could gobble funds from this and other missions. This was later dismissed. Then MSL grew more hungry, and the subject was open to discussion again. GRAIL: Not much more talk, but apparently still actively in development. Luna-Glob: The recent delay in Phobos-Grunt could influence its own launch timetable. American Student Moon Orbiter: The silence is deafening. Reports on the status of any of these missions would be appreciated. Cheers, Morris |
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Sep 17 2009, 10:58 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 15-September 09 Member No.: 4941 |
The German LEO orbiter was cancelled, but there are now proposals for a German lander. This is all tenative. Germany faces an election soon.
Artemis is based on Themis, which is a particles/fields constellation already in orbit. Themis looked at the interaction of the solar wind with Earth's exosphere. The proposal is to extend this to the lunar environment. Do we have anything firm on this mission yet? |
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