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Minerva

#1 Post by Slasher » Thu Oct 25, 2018 8:19 am

I am quite impressed with the manner in which the missions are progressing.

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-da ... nding.html

What's especially unique, apart from the primary mission itself, is that one of the craft (yet to arrive) will actually bring back a sample of the surface after another sacrificially detonates itself and blows a hole in the asteroid itself to enable a sample to be obtained. Superb out of the box thinking.

Not bad at all. 👍🏻

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#2 Post by ian16th » Thu Oct 25, 2018 10:46 am

Slasher wrote:
Thu Oct 25, 2018 8:19 am
I am quite impressed with the manner in which the missions are progressing.

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-da ... nding.html

What's especially unique, apart from the primary mission itself, is that one of the craft (yet to arrive) will actually bring back a sample of the surface after another sacrificially detonates itself and blows a hole in the asteroid itself to enable a sample to be obtained. Superb out of the box thinking.

Not bad at all. 👍🏻
I take it this is manufactured in Afghanistan?
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#3 Post by OFSO » Tue Oct 30, 2018 8:35 pm

Might reduce manufacturing costs a bit if some Sons of the Sand were given a box of bits and told to assemble a space-qualifiied research project. In a suitably isolated facility of course.

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