Mercury Probe Delayed by Ten Weeks, and Two Years

Gogo Dodo writes "Spaceflight Now reports that NASA's MESSENGER probe launch has been delayed by 10 weeks. Unfortunately, this means MESSENGER will not arrive at Mercury until 2011, a two year delay."

Taking bets...

[Gothic_Walrus]

How long before "Ten weeks != Two Years" is posted by some moron?

Remember, kiddies: Earth isn't the only planet that orbits the Sun!

Ironic: Slow Boat to the Fleet-Footed

[G4from128k]

Its ironic that a mission to the fleet-footed god of messages should take so long. I guess its revenge by those ancient Roman gods.

I'm just glad that the mission was not scrubbed.

Re:An Understandable Shame

[xoran99]

Wow. That's really insightful. I'm glad someone around here knows enough about these things to post insightful comments.

*can't think of anything insightful to say, so plays UT2004 instead.*

At least the n00bs respect me...

Re:Taking bets...

[Neil Blender]

How long before "Ten weeks != Two Years" is posted by some moron?

But don't 10 metric weeks equal 2 Imperial years?

Re:Why 2 years?

[Anonymous Coward]

What am I missing here?


a degree in astrophysics.

Re:Taking bets...

[Tango42]

That would all depend on what the hell you're talking about.

Re:Taking bets...

[freuddot]

Maybe "Ten weeks != Two Years", but according to the article :

Unable to meet that schedule, the mission will use its backup window that begins July 30 and extends 15 days.

[...]

Launch on July 30 will occur during a 12-second window opening at 2:17:44 a.m. EDT (0617:44 GMT) from pad 17B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

So, it still looks like a 12 second == 15 days. ;-)

Does I then qualify as "some moron" ?

Re:Who comes up with these?

[irokitt]

MeSSEnGeR or NOAA or ECHO or SOHO

So how long until we see names like M3553n93R or N044 or 3(H0 or 50|-|0?

Re:Why 2 years?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Loose" needs to lose about 50% of its "o"s, which is a pretty significant amount of "o"s.