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 Aug 15 2005, 03:36 PM
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While the likelyhood of a Mercury Lander mission is very low, I was wondering if any planning/studies have been done on such a project?
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May 30 2006, 06:15 PM
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In this 1971 book, Beyond the Moon: Future Explorations in Interplanetary Space
by C. B. Colby, there is a chart of then future planetary missions: http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~jsisson/beyond.htm For Mercury, they indicate an orbiter for 1982. Was there ever an actual plan to orbit Mercury in the early 1980s? Of course the chart also declares a manned lunar base in 1978 and manned expeditions to Venus and Mars in 1982 and 1981, respectively. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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gndonald Mercury Landers Aug 15 2005, 03:36 PM
Patteroast The European 'BepiColumbo' mission planned... Aug 15 2005, 04:13 PM
Bob Shaw QUOTE (Patteroast @ Aug 15 2005, 05:13 PM)The... Aug 15 2005, 07:05 PM JRehling QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Aug 15 2005, 12:05 PM)The p... Aug 16 2005, 03:55 PM djellison Impactor could work
Doug Aug 15 2005, 07:24 PM BruceMoomaw ESA studied alternative possible designs for a Bep... Aug 15 2005, 07:30 PM remcook Although the Bepi-Colombo lander is cancelled, ESA... Aug 16 2005, 08:44 AM djellison Well - studies dont equal flight hardware. Maybe ... Aug 16 2005, 08:57 AM remcook actually, hardware is actually made at this moment... Aug 16 2005, 03:01 PM BruceMoomaw (1) That Mercury smash-and-grab mission is a real... Aug 16 2005, 07:53 PM DDAVIS [quote=BruceMoomaw,Aug 16 2005, 07:53 PM]
(2) Ac... Aug 16 2005, 10:30 PM JRehling
Not to be a party-pooper, but the degree of spec... Aug 17 2005, 06:44 AM djellison Well quite - of the planets on which one COULD lan... Aug 16 2005, 10:46 PM BruceMoomaw You're forgetting 2003 UB313, Doug... (Or, alt... Aug 17 2005, 12:57 AM um3k QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Aug 16 2005, 08:57 PM)Yo... Aug 17 2005, 01:06 AM Richard Trigaux JRehling,
your smash and grab idea is interesting.... Aug 17 2005, 06:11 AM edstrick JRehling observed " We probably have, or will... Aug 17 2005, 10:59 AM JRehling QUOTE (edstrick @ Aug 17 2005, 03:59 AM)JRehl... Aug 17 2005, 04:02 PM Stephen QUOTE (edstrick @ Aug 17 2005, 10:59 AM)Where... Sep 1 2005, 02:36 AM Richard Trigaux What is astonishing with Mercury is that it closel... Aug 17 2005, 12:29 PM centsworth_II If getting a refector on Mercury is the objective,... Aug 17 2005, 04:44 PM tty Here is a recent study of the probability of findi... Aug 17 2005, 05:48 PM BruceMoomaw We don't want a reflector on Mercury for libra... Aug 17 2005, 10:12 PM Myran Cant but agree with BruceMoomaw, libration studies... Aug 18 2005, 05:55 AM Richard Trigaux centsworth_II your idea is interesting, but it wou... Aug 18 2005, 06:40 AM BruceMoomaw I honestly don't know why they had it in mind,... Aug 19 2005, 06:40 AM JRehling QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Aug 18 2005, 11:40 PM)I ... Aug 19 2005, 01:54 PM BruceMoomaw Well, I know that, John. I presumed that Richard ... Aug 19 2005, 06:23 PM JRehling QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Aug 19 2005, 11:23 AM)We... Aug 19 2005, 09:31 PM BruceMoomaw ESA was thinking about a lander only 3 degrees fro... Sep 1 2005, 03:01 AM tasp Just throwing out some ideas, may be helpful in th... Nov 26 2005, 06:14 PM Bob Shaw QUOTE (tasp @ Nov 26 2005, 07:14 PM)Just thro... Nov 26 2005, 06:30 PM tty QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Nov 26 2005, 08:30 PM)The k... Nov 27 2005, 04:42 PM DEChengst QUOTE (tty @ Nov 27 2005, 05:42 PM)The best a... Nov 27 2005, 09:20 PM BruceMoomaw There was, I've heard (though I haven't co... Nov 26 2005, 09:13 PM edstrick Two or three years ago, there was some reporting o... Nov 27 2005, 08:43 PM JRehling I can't find the reference to the Mercury smas... Nov 28 2005, 01:55 AM BruceMoomaw Keep in mind that this thing will fly past Mercury... Nov 28 2005, 02:11 AM BruceMoomaw NASA never -- and I mean never -- put any Mercury ... May 31 2006, 05:45 AM |
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