Re: The Mars Landing Approach: Getting Large Payloads to the Surface of the Red Planet
- From: jsavard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John Savard)
- Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:00:38 GMT
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:05:51 GMT, jsavard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(John Savard) wrote, in part:
Doing some checking, I find that the mass of a Mercury capsule when in
orbit (that is, exclusive of the escape rocket) was 1,354 kilograms, and
the mass of the Viking lander on the surface of Mars was 600 kilograms.
But, unlike the Lunar Module, neither the Viking Lander nor a Mercury
capsule could choose not to land right on top of a boulder, so *that*
part of my reasoning is faulty.
John Savard
http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html
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