Nick Hoffman said:
>And then...
>Milk the next design for all it's worth and build a fleet of THEM!
>Any chance of Sean O'Keefe stepping down in your favour, Gary?
Not from me directly. I'm too low on the totem pole. If there was a ground swell of opinion from the planetary scientists then O'Keefe might notice (scientists have much more status than engineers). Nick, influencing other planetary scientists is where you could play a role. Also, next time you do a BBC or major media interview, you might mention the highly cloned MER concept as an alternative to MSL.
MSL's "sky crane" worries me along with MSL's big price tag. The sky crane is obvious bad design. Most engineers that I've talked to about the sky crane have expressed similar opinions. It concerns me that bad ideas are not being slapped down early in the process. I fear that good ideas are being ignored because they are not part of the stated agenda.
Gary
Space/Science » in reply to re: Build to Print
I'm only a humble engineer....
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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)