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unidentified Jupiter probe |
 Dec 4 2010, 04:06 PM
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I found these two pictures in the Russian Novosti Kosmonavtiki forum. They were taken in the aeronautics museum of Speyer, in Germany. The poster wonders what it is.
my opinion is that it could be a model of the (West) German-US Advanced Cooperation Project Jupiter probe of the 60s. By about 1968 it was deemed beyond German technology of the time and was scaled down to the Helios solar probes. Any idea anyone?  
-------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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 Dec 5 2010, 09:40 AM
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correct Paolo, that's the bus of the 750 kg US-German probe, which was designed by Bölkow.
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Dec 5 2010, 06:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1214 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
more info re-linked from the Novosti Kosmonavtiki forum:
 Sorry I don't speak German, but I would be interested in a translation. see also Flight International for 1966 http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/vie...20-%201381.html and http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/vie...20-%201382.html -------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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Sep 14 2011, 05:19 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1214 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
I have found more info on this as well as other fascinating projects of the 60s in this pdf:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntr..._1968018866.pdf -------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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Sep 30 2011, 08:14 PM
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Awesome. US space probes just didn’t have enough spheres on them.
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Oct 3 2011, 05:48 AM
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That is because, unlike Soviet spacecraft, they weren't pressurized.
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