FWIW, if successful, it’s not going into orbit around Mars. It would be aimed onto a Mars transfer trajectory, meaning an elliptical orbit where its closest approach to the Sun is at Earth’s orbital distance, and farthest is at Mars’ orbital distance. 1/nhttps://twitter.com/sevensixfive/status/946909074020536321 …
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Antwort an @GayathriKWrites
I am doing my level best not to pass value judgments, only to state the facts to help others make their own judgment.
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Antwort an @elakdawalla
I've been judging since I first heard of this. Its NOT EASY getting to Mars, and I hate that he's wasting the oppt'y to do science
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Antwort an @GayathriKWrites @elakdawalla
What would you put on this rocket? Any other company would put a mass simulator on. I can't think of a scientific instrument that would be cheap enough to put on such a risky flight.
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"Any other company would put a mass simulator on" - that's obviously false, most companies and agencies put an actual payloads on their first launches of a rockets. Dummy payloads were common in cold war, but not any more.
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Antwort an @JareelSkaj @holliemaea und
These rockets actually flew with dummy payloads on 1st flight: - Delta IV Heavy - F9 - Japan's H-II & H-IIA - Zenit (both the -2 & -3SL for Sea Launch) - Atlas-Centaur (multiple flights) - Titan III & IIIE (the later failed) - Angara (both A1.2 & A5) - Ariane 1
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There are rockets that had to fly with dummy payloads after failing the first flight(s) - Ariane 5 flew dummies on early flights after the first one w/ @ESA_Cluster blew up. Delta III had to fly one on its 3rd (successful) flight after the first two failed.
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