Mars Express Extended, Mars Express Orbiter gets a lease |
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Mars Express Extended, Mars Express Orbiter gets a lease |
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Sep 25 2005, 07:52 PM
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Mars Express Orbiter gets a lease of life, the mission have been extended one Martian year (23 months) from early December 2005.
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Sep 25 2005, 08:51 PM
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Great new! Also for Marsis...
Hoping next year they will release more imagery! -------------------- - Marco -
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Sep 25 2005, 09:17 PM
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-------------------- - blue_scape / Nico -
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Feb 11 2009, 05:00 PM
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Mars Express gets a third extension, to December 31, 2009.
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMACI05VQF_0.html (And so do Venus Express and Cluster) |
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Feb 11 2009, 06:26 PM
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The Express missions may not be media stars, but it's relieving to see these rugged probes keeping our eyes open on Venus and Mars when new launches are put in jeopardy by the caprices of economy.
-------------------- "I can easily see still in my mind’s-eye the beautiful clusters of these berries as they appeared to me..., when I came upon an undiscovered bed of them... – the rich clusters drooping in the shade there and bluing all the ground" -- Thoreau
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