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If they were sure a asteroid were going to hit the earth
"Pat Flannery" wrote in message ... I've still got to see the sight on this thing... Pat Coincidentally, I spotted a press release in the local media here indicating they were a step closer to manufacture. See "Latest News" at http://www.metalstorm.com/. Brian |
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If they were sure a asteroid were going to hit the earth
Scott Hedrick wrote: Perhaps mass assembled small probes could have a small unit price. I am hoping it wouldn't cost a fortune to send out a fleet of asteroid probes. Increasingly, it appears that the cost is in launch & delivery and operations. The cost of the probe itself is becoming small enough that the larger universities could build them. As the probes get smaller, you can send more in a single launch. IIRC SMART-1 was launched along with two other satellites on an Ariane V. If they could get probes small enough to send out 4 or 5 on a single launch, that'd decrease it more. -- Hop David http://clowder.net/hop/index.html |
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