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 Sep 20 2010, 11:41 AM
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 Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 2933 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542  |
A proposal to tackle data bottlenecks on future planetary probe missions: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/...00919182645.htm
"the technology could be ready in time to support mid-term missions to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn" |
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Sep 20 2010, 01:41 PM
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That's an interesting concept. I wonder how much it would cost to put a "fleet" in motion?
And would just one mission to the outer planets be enough to justify it's cost? Technical question: How well would solar sailing and solar power work beyond Jupiter orbit? -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Sep 20 2010, 02:57 PM
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I wouldn't even give this a TRL of 1, let alone say ' could be ready in time to support...' w.r.t. the next flagships. That's crazy. There is a tradition of slightly crazy papers getting the attention of the media office at Europlanet though
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Sep 20 2010, 06:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4521 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Yeah, I'm gonna trust my data to that!
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Sep 20 2010, 08:42 PM
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 Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 709 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
Considering we still don't do optical comms, I agree with Doug that this idea is pretty far-fetched. Like fusion, it'll probably be 10 years away for 40 years.
-------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Sep 21 2010, 03:54 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1008 Joined: 29-November 05 From: Seattle, WA, USA Member No.: 590 |
It's hard to take this too seriously. No one has made solar sails work at 1 AU. They'd be 100x less effective at 10 AU. And what sort of orbits are these things supposed to be on anyway, which repeatedly pass the Earth and various outer planets? Seems to be the brainchild of someone who doesn't understand orbital dynamics and who thinks the planets are all relatively close to each other.
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