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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
The successor of Curiosity, to be launched in the year 2020: http://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/curiositys-successor-mars-2020-will-continue-search-habitability/ Mars 2020, as it’s currently called, will have improved instruments over Curiosity. The new rover is heavily based on the Curiosity design, and as with its predecessor it will be able to search for habitable environments. rOZZ Music Pictures |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
Another NASA project that would follow in Curiosity's footsteps and help in future Mars explorations is called LDSD (low density supersonic decelerator) https://blogs.nasa.gov/ldsd/2015/06/08/ldsd-flight-complete-nasa-to-hold-briefing-to-discuss-status-of-flying-saucer-test/ http://ssdl.gatech.edu/papers/conferencePapers/IEEE-2008-1419.pdf rOZZ Music Pictures |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
It has already failed twice since the parachute has broken. I followed it on NASA TV both times. Tullio |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
NASA will launch the InSight stationary lander to Mars on March 2016 accompanied by 6 Cubesat relay satellites on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launcher from Vandenberg AFB in California. Tullio |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
NASA is going ahead step by step, with no hurry. There is not a political race to land a man on Mars, as it was on the Moon. Tullio |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
The exploration of Mars isn't highest priority anymore in the Space program. It does not wake up our imagination anymore as it used to do in HG Wells' time, that's a fact. That's better. No phantasy, more science. This is what NASA is doing. Tullio |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
The exploration of Mars isn't highest priority anymore in the Space program. It does not wake up our imagination anymore as it used to do in HG Wells' time, that's a fact. Science that costs a lot of money I should say. The costs of the JWST project alone, are estimated at $8 billion. If only Seti had that kind of money.. rOZZ Music Pictures |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Big Science is always costly. The ITER nuclear fusion project now has a French chief, who estimates its costs to about seven billion euros but it is still in a preliminary phase, and it will cost more. But nobody will take the responsibility for terminating it, it is just too big. The IGNITOR project led by Bruno Coppi at the Kurcatov Institute in Moscow should cost about a tenth of ITER. A more reasonable effort. Tullio |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
IGNITOR is the Italian name for a nuclear research project of magnetic confinement fusion, developed by ENEA Laboratories in Frascati. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGNITOR Villa Frascati:) |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
Science that costs a lot of money I should say. The costs of the JWST project alone, are estimated at $8 billion. If only Seti had that kind of money.. It would be great if we were to have the Allen Array again.. rOZZ Music Pictures |
William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
The Allen array was from a competing group at Berkley. They didn't use distributed computing. Does anyone have any info on whether or not Seti@home can take data from the Atacama array in Chile. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
I was hoping for a sample return as part of the next robotic mission. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
KLiK Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 1304 Credit: 22,994,597 RAC: 60 |
It has already failed twice since the parachute has broken. I followed it on NASA TV both times. Maybe they should really think about sending 3 of those new Opportunity based rovers to Mars in a single spacecraft with 3 landing devices. Also, early Mars orbit separation could land them on different portions of Mars. But also that plan also has a back-up if some of the parachutes decide not to open (again). We really need to start exploring more of our Solar system in the next years with advanced robotics. non-profit org. Play4Life in Zagreb, Croatia, EU |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
After 8 months on 'Mars', crew missed wind, peaches (NEWSER) – After eight months almost completely confined to a dome on the slopes of a Hawaiian volcano, six scientists are enjoying things like the feel of wind on their skin and non-freeze-dried food like watermelon, peaches, and croissants—and being able to shower for longer than six minutes a week. The volunteers, five Americans and one Canadian ranging in age from 26 to 39 and chosen for their low-drama personalities, were in the 1,000-square-foot dome as part of a closely monitored NASA experiment to see how people would get along with each other and resolve conflicts during long space missions, the Honolulu Star-Advertiserreports. They were 8,000 feet up on Mauna Loa, which they pretended was Mars. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/06/15/mars-crew-hawaii-missed-wind-fruit/71243580/ |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Mars One project. The final countdown:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw Mars One is a "non-profit" organization based in the Netherlands that has put forward plans to land the first humans on Mars and establish a permanent human colony there by 2027.[1] The private spaceflight project is led by Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp, who announced plans for the Mars One project in May 2012.[2] The project's schedule, technical and financial feasibility, as well as ethics have been widely criticized by scientists, engineers and those in the aerospace industry |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
chosen for their low-drama personalities Psychology is a very important part of it. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
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