re: Find a cheap way to land it on Mars and you'll have something

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Doug Ellison — 3/31/2005 8:23:16 PM (archived)

The airbag system demands that you waste three times as much mass on the edl system as you do on the actual payload - and that's just madness. Furthermore - there are some payloads that would be good to fly that dont like getting bounced around at 15g for a km

Doug

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Ants on Mars? - phil - 3/31/2005 5:07:26 PM
- send compost (n/t) - steve smyth - 4/1/2005 8:45:22 AM
- Find a cheap way to land it on Mars and you'll have something - Gary - 3/31/2005 5:31:24 PM
  - re: Find a cheap way to land it on Mars and you'll have something - p - 3/31/2005 8:01:40 PM
    - Airbags are a Rube Goldberg type solution - Gary - 4/1/2005 5:37:20 AM
    - re: Find a cheap way to land it on Mars and you'll have something - Doug Ellison - 3/31/2005 8:23:16 PM
      - If your ANTZ were small enough... - Nick Hoffman - 4/3/2005 5:59:12 AM
        
        Fun with numbers - Gary - 4/3/2005 6:51:39 AM
        
        re: Fun with numbers - Nick Hoffman - 4/3/2005 4:04:46 PM

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