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What Re-born '01 Lander Platform?

dot.dk View Member Profile	Jan 20 2005, 12:55 AM Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 578 Joined: 5-November 04 From: Denmark Member No.: 107	Is Phonix not the reborn '99 Polar Lander? Just curios -------------------- "I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like" - Steven Squyres

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djellison View Member Profile	Jan 20 2005, 11:55 AM Post #2
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14457 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	Yeah - it shares most of the same systems - it's the same design really. Same engines, same systems, same structure, same cruise hardware etc. Because of that - when the '99 lander failure was not understood - the '01 lander was cancelled as a matter of caution. The only majorly different things are the solar arrays and the instrumentation. Also - it's got an MER style HGA instead of the wok-design that MPL had - and this platform also had - and changed instrumentation. The orig. plan was for the robot arm to 'pick up' the Sojourner 'spare' ( Marie Curie ) from the lander deck and put it on the ground beside the lander to rover around. That's since been dropped from the package. Whilst some would say the platform is 'flight proven' w.r.t. Polar Lander - to be honest, the only thing that's proven is that it fails. However - the likely root cause has been found, and fixed ( a simple software bug ) - and they will be obliged to integrate some form of EDL tone telemetry a la MER to help troubleshoot if there is another failure. The camera system is a hybrid evolution of the MPF/MPL camera ( 14.4 degree f.o.v. with approx 256 pixels across) and the MER CCD's ( 1024 across ) - so, if the two work well together, it should actually be better imagery - just - than MER Doug

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dot.dk What Re-born '01 Lander Platform? Jan 20 2005, 12:55 AM

djellison It's the part-built 2001 lander, taken out of ... Jan 20 2005, 09:18 AM

tedstryk Indeed it will be. The advantage it has over miss... Jan 20 2005, 11:12 AM

dot.dk Why was the 2001 lander cancelled? Was it because... Jan 20 2005, 11:28 AM

djellison Yeah - it shares most of the same systems - it... Jan 20 2005, 11:55 AM

lyford QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 20 2005, 03:55 AM)....... Jan 21 2005, 12:23 AM

tedstryk To make room for the MPL instrumentation. Jan 21 2005, 01:23 AM

BruceMoomaw Yes -- that rover, tiny though it was, was pretty ... Jan 22 2005, 02:46 AM

remcook QUOTE Actually, the whole idea of Sojourner was ye... Jan 22 2005, 10:36 AM

djellison Yup - Sojourner was essentially a brilliant techno... Jan 22 2005, 11:46 AM

BruceMoomaw As a technology demonstrator, Sojourner was pretty... Jan 22 2005, 11:52 AM

BruceMoomaw Let me add that: (1) The rocker-bogey system had... Jan 22 2005, 12:03 PM

tedstryk Which, as I said in another group once, is why I ... Jan 22 2005, 01:07 PM

lyford QUOTE (tedstryk @ Jan 22 2005, 05:07 AM)Which... Jan 23 2005, 05:28 PM

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