Here's another article about Beagle 2. It is important to emphasize that the British are quite capable of sending a spacecraft to the Martian surface. Some of the best mechanical engineers that I've worked with are British. IMHO the British should attempt another Mars lander with different managers. If the British/Europeans want to go for bottom dollar on a Mars lander that actually works, they should hire Australian engineers. Academics and graduate students from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Queensland would make a good team to manage the Entry Descent and Landing (EDL) aspects of a Mars laner. A team of engineers from the University of Queensland recently did a successful hypersonic combuster flight experiment (google it). This was an amazing technical triumph achieved at a tenth the price of what it would have cost in America.
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Space/Science » in reply to David Whitehouse lurks the Habitable Zone.
Another article about Beagle 2
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- Beage 2: As I was saying
- a portrait ..
- Predictions, anyone? How long before ESA offers competitive prizes like NASA now is?
- A Difference Overlooked
- David Whitehouse lurks the Habitable Zone.
- You know this for a fact?
- Another article about Beagle 2
- Exactly on point
- re: Exactly on point
- Standard practice is to design for the worst case scenario
- Importance of feedback from protypes
- re: Standard practice is to design for the worst case scenario
- Standard practice is to design for the worst case scenario
- re: Exactly on point
- Exactly on point
- don't hold your breath for a refund (n/t)
- Sounds like what they said about Mars Polar Lander. (n/t)
- Let the space organization that does not have at least one pile of multimillion dollar junk littering the Martian surface, cast the first stone. (n/t)
- re: Let the space organization that does not have at least one pile of multimillion dollar junk littering the Martian surface, cast the first stone.
- A big difference
- Yes, there are some differencess...
- re: A big difference
- re: Beagle 2 was 'too great a risk'
- You're missing the point
- re: You're missing the point
- How much extra would Beagle 2 have cost if they used the NASA airbag sytem?
- Many space scientists said MPL's landing system was doomed to failure BEFORE it arrived at Mars. (n/t)
- re: You're missing the point
- You might be right.
- A big difference
- re: Let the space organization that does not have at least one pile of multimillion dollar junk littering the Martian surface, cast the first stone.
- Let the space organization that does not have at least one pile of multimillion dollar junk littering the Martian surface, cast the first stone. (n/t)