MSL schedule delay? |
MSL schedule delay? |
Sep 9 2008, 08:10 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 706 Joined: 22-April 05 Member No.: 351 |
The most recent Aviation Week and Space Technology (9/8) has the following tidbit in a piece on NASA schedule delays:
"On the robotoic front, the testing schedule for a critical instrument for the Mars Science Laboratory -- dubbed SAM for Sample Analysis at Mars -- may delay launch of the advanced rover from its 2009 planetary window into 2011." -------------------- |
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Sep 27 2008, 07:07 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 293 Joined: 22-September 08 From: Spain Member No.: 4350 |
If a delay to 2011 allows to address the issues with low temperatures that put a question mark on some landing locations, an added benefit to the heavier payload could be possibly higher scientific return...
(We would be too busy looking at Endeavour in 2009 to notice that MSL isn't there yet, anyway. And I'm secretly hoping that Phoenix will survive.) |
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