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Bulgarian participation on Phobos-Grunt confirmed!
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post Aug 11 2008, 02:04 PM
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It's confirmed (http://www.stil.bas.bg/message/press-kit-February2008.pdf )!

A Bulgarian instrument Lulin-Phobos will be mounted aboard Phobos-Grunt which is slated for launch in 2009. The aim of the project is to monitor the radiation dose on the way to Mars and on the surface of Phobos.

This is a unique experiment which has never flown before. The results from Lulin-Phobos are expected to show us whether human travel to Mars is safe and how a long interplanetary flight will affect the crew.
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post Aug 12 2008, 01:08 AM
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Cool! You must be justifiably quite proud, ZV! smile.gif


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post Aug 12 2008, 08:07 AM
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I'm happy of course, but I'm also worried, because the small interplanetary probe has grown to a fat international project. Thus, I think Ted may be right, because we have a lot of options of failure now...

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post Aug 12 2008, 01:58 PM
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Good news, thank you!
By the way, Bulgaria already had instruments on Russian probes. I remember that the CCD camera on Phobos was Bulgarian-built


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post Aug 12 2008, 04:02 PM
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Glad to see that the instrument was indeed included!


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post Aug 12 2008, 04:49 PM
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The instrument IMO is very small. RADOM-7 which will fly aboard Chandrayaan-1 is smaller than a pen, Lulin-Phobos is probably smaller. The good thing is that even Phobos-Grunt fails at MOI or Phobos, our project will probably be classified as successfull.
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