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MSL "Heat shield woes"

Stu View Member Profile	Feb 17 2008, 04:20 PM Post #1
The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60	"MSL Heat Shield Woes" - Aviation Week Anyone else see this? -------------------- Homepage Astropoetry "Cumbrian Sky" blog "Road to Endeavour" blog

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djellison View Member Profile	Feb 18 2008, 02:22 PM Post #2
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14457 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	Yeah...I meant every word of that...all of it. Easy solution - read the first 20 pages of Planetary Landers and Entry Probes For more R.L. et.al goodness on such matters. That's what I've been doing over the weekend. I'll need to read it twice for it to go in, but at least I know what b-plane means now. Doug

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Stu MSL "Heat shield woes" Feb 17 2008, 04:20 PM

centsworth_II From the article: "The relative orbital posit... Feb 17 2008, 04:31 PM

djellison Do that, and you don't reach Mars at all. Th... Feb 17 2008, 05:39 PM

rlorenz QUOTE (djellison @ Feb 17 2008, 12:39 PM)... Feb 18 2008, 01:43 PM

centsworth_II I bet Dawn wouldn't have any trouble. Feb 17 2008, 06:13 PM

nprev Not to be cynical, but 'pray for launch delay... Feb 18 2008, 06:59 AM

mchan The delay for MSL would be 2 years and very costly... Feb 18 2008, 08:01 AM

AndyG Is the article correct? QUOTE NASA had planned to... Feb 18 2008, 11:24 AM

djellison Yeah...I meant every word of that...all of it. Ea... Feb 18 2008, 02:22 PM

ElkGroveDan Ouch $115...but you can get a used one on Ama... Feb 18 2008, 04:36 PM

rlorenz QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Feb 18 2008, 11:36 A... Feb 20 2008, 09:45 PM

Greg Hullender Part of what I love about orbital mechanics proble... Feb 18 2008, 05:00 PM

edstrick Mariners 6 and 7 <1969> had unusually short ... Feb 19 2008, 08:38 AM

Sunspot Is MSL really going to be ready to launch on time? Feb 19 2008, 09:58 PM

djellison To be honest, compared to the trouble MER had, MSL... Feb 19 2008, 10:03 PM

elakdawalla Alan just said at MEPAG that, just three months af... Feb 20 2008, 05:07 PM

djellison Oh dear. That's really very very bad news ind... Feb 20 2008, 05:40 PM

centsworth_II Wouldn't it be ironic if MSL doesn't fly a... Feb 20 2008, 06:10 PM

ugordan Ironic, indeed. I don't think Alan will like t... Feb 20 2008, 06:13 PM

djellison I really really really want to see MSL fly, but it... Feb 20 2008, 06:24 PM

elakdawalla Alan went on to say "The ramifications are go... Feb 20 2008, 06:25 PM

Sunspot QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Feb 20 2008, 06:25 P... Feb 20 2008, 07:15 PM

vjkane Emily - Are you at the MPEG meeting? Feb 20 2008, 07:17 PM

elakdawalla No. They're trying out allowing people to par... Feb 20 2008, 07:35 PM

Mariner9 I hate to be an armchair quarterback, so I'm n... Feb 20 2008, 07:36 PM

mcaplinger QUOTE (Mariner9 @ Feb 20 2008, 11:36 AM) ... Feb 21 2008, 12:54 AM

elakdawalla One of the things that makes me a bit worried is t... Feb 20 2008, 07:53 PM

ugordan QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Feb 20 2008, 08:53 P... Feb 20 2008, 07:56 PM

Jim from NSF.com QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Feb 20 2008, 02:53 P... Feb 20 2008, 10:54 PM

elakdawalla I have no data with which to back this up, but my ... Feb 20 2008, 07:59 PM

djellison One thing that I think Jim Bell was pushing for wi... Feb 20 2008, 10:44 PM

djellison Chang'e 1, Chandrayaan - 1, Kaguya, LRO. That... Feb 20 2008, 11:17 PM

Jim from NSF.com point taken Feb 20 2008, 11:35 PM

Mariner9 The 800 million figure was rather informal. I was... Feb 21 2008, 02:23 AM

mcaplinger QUOTE (Mariner9 @ Feb 20 2008, 06:23 PM) ... Feb 21 2008, 06:04 AM

Mariner9 QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Feb 20 2008, 10:04 PM... Feb 21 2008, 06:54 AM

mcaplinger QUOTE (Mariner9 @ Feb 20 2008, 10:54 PM) ... Feb 21 2008, 07:16 AM

mchan QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Feb 20 2008, 11:53 A... Feb 21 2008, 06:30 AM

Mariner9 NASA budgets are a matter of public record. That... Feb 21 2008, 07:57 AM

mcaplinger QUOTE (Mariner9 @ Feb 20 2008, 11:57 PM) ... Feb 21 2008, 06:42 PM

stevesliva Wasn't there surprise that the Mars budget was... Feb 21 2008, 03:26 PM

Mariner9 More power to you for unraveling those budget docu... Feb 21 2008, 07:42 PM

elakdawalla Boys, boys, can we please take it down a notch? Y... Feb 21 2008, 08:02 PM

Mariner9 Sorry, I almost posted a retraction (or a partial... Feb 21 2008, 08:29 PM

vjkane Emily, did Stern have anything to say on why the M... Feb 21 2008, 08:37 PM

hendric I can see it, but I'm not sure I can make anyt... Feb 21 2008, 09:20 PM

Steve G NASA is always reinventing the wheel. Every space... Feb 24 2008, 09:48 PM

djellison QUOTE (Steve G @ Feb 24 2008, 09:48 PM) E... Feb 24 2008, 10:55 PM

brellis NASA doesn't want to waste a lot of $... Feb 25 2008, 01:27 AM

vjkane QUOTE (brellis @ Feb 25 2008, 01:27 AM) T... Feb 25 2008, 04:02 AM

brellis Right, I forgot about Mariner Mark II. If only NA... Feb 25 2008, 04:33 AM

edstrick "...Cassini was originally supposed to be the... Feb 25 2008, 06:07 AM

mcaplinger QUOTE (edstrick @ Feb 24 2008, 10:07 PM) ... Feb 25 2008, 07:20 PM

tedstryk There was also the problem of NASA's budget no... Feb 25 2008, 08:31 PM

vjkane The pre-MRO Mars orbiters, as I understand it, sha... Feb 25 2008, 03:08 PM

nprev This is the third or fourth time I've seen mas... Feb 25 2008, 06:24 PM

Mariner9 One example of design inheritance working well wa... Feb 25 2008, 10:56 PM

Tom Tamlyn >Venus Express flew, the cost for that mission ... Feb 26 2008, 03:15 AM

vjkane QUOTE (Tom Tamlyn @ Feb 26 2008, 03:15 AM... Feb 26 2008, 03:36 AM

Steve G Nasa still needs to eventually land another spacec... Mar 1 2008, 05:39 AM

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