Comment Re:What about the US? (Score 1) 637
actually its more the dust on the solar panels that the engineers fear.
it was said in an interview that such dust collects itself on the immobile beagle and thus leads to less to no sunlight reaching the solar cells anymore ..
though this doesnt apply to the US probes its certainly a big - for the british one.
Im also much into the idea that one might bring the safe parts of a nuclear cell into orbit, assemble it there and then build it into a satellite, because MY only fear is that something might go wrong with the start. Imagine a rocket exploding with some pounds of plutonium or uran inside .. (read dirty nuclear bomb) ..
Summed up i think that at the time assembly of probes is shifted to earth orbit or moon theres a big probability of those probes being fitted out with more "dangerous" technology like nuclear cells and some experimental things.
desto
it was said in an interview that such dust collects itself on the immobile beagle and thus leads to less to no sunlight reaching the solar cells anymore
though this doesnt apply to the US probes its certainly a big - for the british one.
Im also much into the idea that one might bring the safe parts of a nuclear cell into orbit, assemble it there and then build it into a satellite, because MY only fear is that something might go wrong with the start. Imagine a rocket exploding with some pounds of plutonium or uran inside
Summed up i think that at the time assembly of probes is shifted to earth orbit or moon theres a big probability of those probes being fitted out with more "dangerous" technology like nuclear cells and some experimental things.
desto
