Space Forum / Space Flight / February 2004

In another thread:
SSTO propulsion overview
Gordon D. Pusch wrote

The trouble with Rover is revealed
By Ron Wilson, EE Times
February 20, 2004 (6:32 p.m. EST)
URL: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20040220S0046 

Or kill yucca mountain
$40 billion and more will be spent by DOE and the commercial nuclear
power industry to try to make nuclear waste to "go away"
hahaha well some have suggested a solar disposel for this stuff.the

Does anybody know whether Project Prometheus is going to use a
turbine-driven generator or an MHD?

It was once proposed to do an automated search of images from the
Clementine probe for evidence of lunar lava tubes.  The argument (by
Taylor and Gibbs) was that the usually-cited candidates for lava tubes
are the huge, apparently partly collapsed rilles visible from Earth or

Here's an article that CNN has about nuclear power on space probes.  I
list some questions about it below
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/nuclear_focus_040218-
1.html

shuttle C dreaming
http://www.slepsummit.com/IIStrategy.pdf
Read down to page 17 through 20 and you can see shuttle c dreaming
again.

Howdy,
I have a satellite tracking program that outputs from AZ,1-359,EL,1-90 in
ASCII.
I am just wondering how I can convert this to something meaningfull in the

So, from deep within the peanut gallery come a couple
questions/comments and such that will perhaps sound absurd but if
nothing else I suspect the responses it might trigger will be good
learning.

I just finished reading Zubrin's "Entering Space", and was somewhat
disturbed by his economic analysis of space solar power.  Not that I
found it off the mark for what he analyzed - but that it seemed to
ignore what seems like an obvious alternative.  Too obvious - there

Looking at the Mars Rover tracks, I notice that at
regular intervals a few feet apart, the treadmarks
left in the dust are disturbed for a few inches before
continuing again.

I have read that the people working behind the Mars missions, appear
to have successfully upgraded the Mars Relay to transmit at 256
kilobits/sec, allowing approximately 250 megabits worth of data to be
transmitted in a single relay session.    (I'm speaking only of data

Is it possible to be in Mars orbit and collide with Olympus Mons?

JPL has some limited information about the Mars rover electronics and the
VME bus:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft_rover_brains.html
What kind of CPU and O/S are the rovers using (or do I really want to know)?