Comments on: Outer Planets Mission Selected

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:49:22 +0000

oh and Great site by the way!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:49:01 +0000

It’s quite common for companies to pull together and share a rocket launch into space to spread the cost of the launch. They can compromise on mass, power and more simply to fit 2 in.

Nasa/Esa missions are usually much more expensive though and so it will be interesting to see if this is why they might do that.

By: thomas romer

thomas romer — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:58:31 +0000

i figured, it was just the way they were wording it that made me wonder. Chances are the tech to have them both together and separate safely would cost more than independent launches.

By: Gordan

Gordan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:35:53 +0000

The ESA mission, if funded, would launch on an Ariane 5.
The NASA mission would launch on an Atlas V, probably 551 configuration.