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To: snowsislander

Sounds like a pretty amitious mission.


3 posted on 10/05/2005 6:46:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: BenLurkin
Sounds like a pretty amitious mission.

Yes, I think it is an impressively ambitious mission. They are trying a host of new technology: microwave ion propulsion, the touch-and-go's under autonomous systems, attempting a return to drop off the samples, and there was the even the possibility of further missions, though I wonder with this latest problem (Hayabusa also was very negatively affected by the huge bursts of solar activity in the last few yeras) if those are still on the table.

4 posted on 10/05/2005 7:31:48 PM PDT by snowsislander
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