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.
Minerva
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I take it this is manufactured in Afghanistan?Slasher wrote: ↑Thu Oct 25, 2018 8:19 amI 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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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.