[extropy-chat] Pluto New Horizons launch -getting ready

[Robert Bradbury]

Sounds like you need a combination orbiter + lander.  Let the lander just
worry about getting signals up to the orbiter and the orbiter worry about
getting them back to Earth.  But they you still have the deceleration
problem again.  I think an inflatable antenna on a hard-impact lander might
be the way to go.  The crater problem can be solved if you can bring it in
at a low angle and/or let it bounce/roll along until it came to a stop.

On 2/14/06, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>  Oh I see where you are coming from, ja.  The chips themselves can likely
> withstand a lot of
>
> acceleration, but we need to get the signals back home somehow.  That
> requires the kind
>
> of equipment that cannot with current technology handle the sudden stop,
> nor figure out a
>
> way to dig itself out of the crater it would form on impact.  I'll keep
> thinking tho.
>
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