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Originally Posted by JimmyH155
COR!  Read that stuff on spaceinfo.com It sure is scary what they are trying to do... Landing with a fighter plane radar, 12 separate rockets, a parachute that might come down on top of it, electric motors many years old., some hardware with no redundancy... Wow, if it gets down what an achievement that will be  |
It's not rocket science.... oh wait yes it is
I've always loved the "Scotty" approach to space exploration... MIR designed to last 5 years... lasted 15. Any number of deep space probes designed to last a relatively short time.... still sending data from the furthest reaches of our solar system (well furthest we have yet reached anyway).
But it's reading things like that, that make you feel it's reasonable that a few probes have had a less than successful landing (though that one that was a result of an error between metric and imperial was a bit of an embarrassment).
Looking forward to the results