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Cassini-Huygens mission extension

  • 04-02-2010 10:50pm
    #1
    Kevster
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    I'm surprised that this has not been mentioned already: The Cassini-Huygens mission has been extended again until 2017. This is great news for people like me who have been following it ever since it's incepteion pre-2000. It's been one of the greatest missions NASA and ESA have ever been involved in I feel.

    Kevin


    Ref: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8497095.stm


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  • #2
    ynotdu
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    Kevster wrote: »
    I'm surprised that this has not been mentioned already: The Cassini-Huygens mission has been extended again until 2017. This is great news for people like me who have been following it ever since it's incepteion pre-2000. It's been one of the greatest missions NASA and ESA have ever been involved in I feel.

    Kevin


    Ref: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8497095.stm

    Great news Kevster!{even though my main interest had/is in Human Spaceflight}
    Imagine even Missions that were suceeding in their goal were been written off before their useful life was over!{diifficult enough to get a mission off the ground and then hope it works}

    Cassini was going to get no more support,not because it was useless but because the available budget was being sucked up by Constellation.
    fine and dandy if Constellation could have achieved its goals{but even the most independant observors agreed that the USA could not have returned to the Moon before 2028 and funds were being spread TOO thinly across all NASA,s programmes.

    I hate what has been done to NASA,but the Cassini extension is and should always have been a 'no brainer'


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