2009 Or 2011 ?, 1 or 2 ? |
2009 Or 2011 ?, 1 or 2 ? |
May 3 2005, 11:11 AM
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Does anybody know when and how many MSL will go, or when the decision on this will be made ?
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May 3 2005, 07:17 PM
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They're definitely going to run the ground tests this summer -- and I regard them as necessary, given the number of subtle aspects of this gadget (twisting, whiplash in the lines, etc.) which would be hard to simulate precisely in a virtual simulation. (Remember that Mariner 10 was almost ruined by a resonant flexing of its magnetometer boom that kept making it do the hula uncontrollably -- and which wasn't picked up on the ground because it existed only in 0-G. That's how subtle material interactions can be in spacecraft dynamics.)
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