Re: Cassini-Huygens Mission status report
From: Duncan Young (smudog_at_mac.com)
Date: 06/13/04
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Date: 13 Jun 2004 14:31:40 -0700
henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer) wrote in message news:<Hz9AKH.53u@spsystems.net>...
> In article <6eb47d23.0406122115.297de041@posting.google.com>,
> Duncan Young <smudog@mac.com> wrote:
> >> But there are lots of other low-hanging fruit remaining, as witness all
> >> the rejected Discovery proposals.
> >
> >> The Moon remains poorly mapped in several important ways, e.g. we still
> >> do not have good topographic maps of the poles or gravity maps of the
> >> farside.
> >
> >True - but the moon now has its own entire Office outside of
> >Discovery.
>
> And it could be back in Discovery a year from now. But what relevance has
> that to the topic? The issue at hand is that there is still significant
> work that could be done there at relatively low cost. Which office it's
> run from is irrelevant.
>
Henry, I think we are talking past each other. I was questioning
Christopher's statment that sticking more slots in Discovery would be
a better way to go than New Frontiers - so I was discussing the
bureaucratic realities of that.
It is also worth pointing out that New Frontiers was in part a
response to the Decadal Survey's high priority questions - most of
which seem to require RTG's, Mars landings, or worse, sample return.
Any of this would be damn hard for Discovery.
There is a place for Discovery - but after the last few missions,
anything proposed will be subject to intense scrutiny. Palming off
the more ambitious stuff to Frontiers will probaby be beneficial to
Discovery.
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