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Yup a little searching unless missions are cancelled the only probe that would be simular but not a rover is the Phoenix Lander. http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/lander.php
The next generation rovers are way different the list it as a verticle lander but not sure how it will release the very large rover that it will contain.
After that mission it gets a lot more than just gray since it appears no long term goals have been put forth at this time.
I know that we have been able to grow snow peas also but have no idea what else has been tried. The next crew is slated to do some more plant growth but article from http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/e … eview.html does not really say what will be grown.
While this is not a space telescope the chances for being able to see the first stars is still a huge mile stone. Telescope taking shape atop Sierra Negra, Mexico's fifth-highest peak. Being constructed at very high altitudes such that bottle o2 is available if the construction crew should faint. The astro-project is due to be operational in 2007 after a crane big enough to hoist the antenna onto the base can be brought up the steep mountainside.
It would appear that we have a new organization for space tourism.
http://www.spacetourismconference.com/
http://www.spacetourismsummit.com/
Space Tourism Initiative Announces Trade-Only Space Tourism Summit
And another and another prize contest seems to be the only way to free up the chances for research as needed for many advance as well as off the shelf uses for every thing.
see space elevator or mars direct for article link:
Spaceward members are starting more modestly this year. They're recruiting college teams, companies -- anyone, actually -- to design an elevator car that can climb a 200-foot ribbon suspended from a crane.
The top three teams, based on speed and payload, will divide an $80,000 purse. There is a second contest for material design. See www.elevator 2010.org.
Space elevator dream for early success may or may not be for it to carry heavy lift cargo but with delevery of crews to a space platform first. Low and behold another contest.
Spaceward members are starting more modestly this year. They're recruiting college teams, companies -- anyone, actually -- to design an elevator car that can climb a 200-foot ribbon suspended from a crane.
The top three teams, based on speed and payload, will divide an $80,000 purse. There is a second contest for material design. See www.elevator 2010.org.
Space visionaries aiming high
ELEVATOR WOULD CARRY SUPPLIES INTO ORBIT
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercuryn … 548.htm?1c
Well this topic has been inactive for a while but the research has been pressing forward. There are obstacles to beam propulsion design for one in the ship materials and also with regards to the beam hitting the target vehicle acurately.
Regulatory agencies will need to develop ways to ensure stray beams don't fry passing airplanes or satellites passing overhead. And it will take $1 billion or $2 billion to build a system with enough oomph to lift one or two humans into orbit
Scientists shine a light on lasers in spaceflight
RPI gathers experts for symposium on "beamed energy propulsion"
http://www.timesunion.com/aspstories/st … yID=294101
Other topic related on newmars
Beamed Energy Propulsion
3rd International Symposium
http://www.newmars.com/cgi-bin....pulsion
Power Limits of Advanced Propulsion
http://www.newmars.com/cgi-bin....pulsion
Then on the recent legislative front we witnessed the re-writing of the bill that everyone had wanted for the suborbital industry contain maybe to much of the safeguarding of the passenger from risk. It would have been a pioson pill if it had been passed. More on this can be found on the spacepolitics site.
Kind of goes with this article also in that in order to develope the much needed vehicle you need a hole lot of cash but it hinges on a business plan that show there is money to be made for that amount of investment.
Can I put my ticket purchase on layaway...
Space Tourism Seeking Public Investors
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm....ceships
Well the next crew will shortly be on there way to the station but of what perils will the face over the coming months as the station continues to age. One can only hope for none and that the maximum value of science that can be achieve for there stay. Article contains some of the missions goals.
New resident crew heads to space station this week
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/e … eview.html
With further research any thing seems to be possible, understanding the mechanism that allows this to be possible is only part of the answer.
A Sleepy Science: Will Humans Hibernate Their Way Through Space?
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/s … 41012.html
Another unofficial news quote from a senior ISS official said Tuesday. The Space Shuttle returns to flight tenative date of the May timeframe, for possible launch window is for mid-May to early June.
U.S. Shuttles May Resume ISS Flights in May
http://www.reuters.com/newsArt....6476794
What I find most interesting about the whole senerio is that there is now more than one possible avenue for prizes. One being as you mentioned though Nasa for the bigger aerospace contenders but now we have the new xprize and lets not forget about the launch to orbit for Bigelow's inflatable habitat contest that details are still coming in on. We live in a very exciting times to which one can only hope for the chances to follow in the foot steps of the earlier astronauts and of experincing the moon or mars some day.
Went on the nasa site to further my knowledge of the mars lander and of what it has versus what leaves with the rover when it leaves its nice comfy nest.
Acelerometer which measure tilt but also can be used to measure extreme vibrations as well.
UHF antenna but not sure where the transmitter is.
Pedal and airbag are adjustible or retractable but power source only mentions solar energy.
Further details of lander not on this page, will need to keep searching.
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/ … ander.html
It appears that rover gets power initially from the lander:
That event is the cable cutting of an umbilical attaching Spirit to its lander platform. Spirit receives power and communications through that umbilical. Once cut, the robot can begin making its moves, taking an off ramp to Mars
as indicated in a space.com article.
Is what you are saying, is that the rovers were the soul source for all of these while waiting to land inside the lander.
I definitely will need to do some research into how much truely is enough to do what was thought of. Since I know little about it...
Well finally a partners meeting is going to be held, I am sure the topic will be the shuttle..
ISS PARTNERS MEETING SCHEDULED FOR EARLY 2005 - ROSKOSMOS
http://en.rian.ru/rian....alert=0
I guess searching for life on mars is going to harder than we had thought.
Second year of project to find life in desert brings as many questions as answers
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04285/393663.stm
Are we seeing the effect of space time curvature by the long ago launched probe from the pioneer series?
Two slowing probes baffling scientists
Pioneer 10, 11 in far reaches of space
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories....00.html
It really could be added to the platform that makes the lander since the rover leaves it. Especially since it has no other purpose after it leaves. Would need minimal items to make one work for long durations.
I guess what bothers most about the space vision has been the lack of support for it and of going forward with it from the Bush camp. He has been focussed on the terrorist mission abroad and continues to ask for more funds in order to complete its goal. With these kind of funds the moon, mars, ISS and yes even the shuttle could be all continued but that is not the case as we have seen from our space beloved congress.
Congress Approves $420 billion For Defense
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/milspace-04za.html
Had seen this this morning and had put my comments under the opportunity and spirit thread. I did not think starting a new topic would generate much at this time with regards to the story. But it does raise some questions with regards to the internal stucture of the red planet and even hopes of starting a magnetosphere in the future.
Question that I had:
Does either of the rovers carry any siezmic instruments to detect quakes... or could some combination of them be used to do so?
Could this also answer the Methane and amonia as signs of life question..or is mars not a sleep but is awakening from a long slumber.
Response was a no on the equipment:
Brazil seems to not want to give up on trying to succeed in doing space flight. Though there space programs started out under military time it has since tried to at least convee that it wishes them to be of a civilian stature and that they are of no threat to anyone.
Brazil In Space: Enlisting Public Support
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/launchers-04zq.html
Florida's hurricane troubles Have forced this to be rescheduled. With this delay they will be going back though the rockets control systems and more to be sure that every thing will go as planned.
New launch date announced for Delta 4-Heavy debut
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0410/10delta4heavy/
Does either of the rovers carry any siezmic instruments to detect quakes... or could some combination of them be used to do so?
Could this also answer the Methane and amonia as signs of life question..or is mars not a sleep but is awakening from a long slumber.
Marsquakes: Red Planet May Still Rumble
Well the russians are at it again with regards to the planning stages for any future mars missions at least where the human aspect of it is concerned.
Russia Plans 500-Day Mock Mars Mission
http://space.com/scienceastronomy/russi … 41011.html
Russian space researchers will lock six men in a metal tube for more than year in an effort to mimic the stresses and challenges of a manned mission to Mars.
The 500 Days experiment, under development by the Russian Institute of Medical and Biological Problems, will isolate human volunteers in a mock space station module for -- as its namesake suggests -- a complete 500 days to study how a long mission to Mars might affect its human crew.