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similar delays for the New Horizons mission, largely for political and budgetary reasons -- and the timing was critical, because the atmosphere is going to refreeze and stay that way for centuries.
5 posted on
12/04/2008 6:33:29 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
What similar delays for New Horizons? The Concept Study Report (written in 2001) stated a 2006 launch, and that’s when it went off. Now it took a while to pick a mission concept, mainly because an early proposal from a different group had a proposed cost twice that of the eventual New Horizons mission.
7 posted on
12/09/2008 3:06:15 PM PST by
MikeD
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