Japan And EU Plan Joint Mission To Mercury

Devar writes "Japan and the European Space Agency have revealed their plans for a joint mission to Mercury that would be the first to land a probe on its surface. The mission also includes two orbiters to map the surface, all due to be launced in 2010."

....... Puff...

[Hougaard]

Did you see the smoke NASA ? :-)

2010

[redune45]

Pretty cool, but not nearly as great as rescuing a haywire AI while orbiting Jupiter [imdb.com]

Joint mission?

[jwriney]

How the hell are you gonna keep it lit in space?

--riney

FP

[Anonymous Coward]

FIRST PLANET!

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Re:BepiColombo

[wowbagger]

So, the probe will go to Mecury, circle 'round it, inspect it, and start to leave.

Then it will turn around, and say,

"There's just one thing that puzzles me, sir..."

Re:BepiColombo

[Alsee]

One of the more exciting bit about the mission is the lander (or impactor, depending)

No sir, the mission didn't fail. We just had an unexpected revision in mission type.

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Re:Joint mission?

[Some Dumbass...]

58.6 days should be enough for most missions.

Oh sure, that's what you say now. But what about in the future when operating systems get larger and more complex? I predict that in 20 years it'll take 60+ days just to boot the OS on the probe. (At least if they're still using 8088 chips on those things)