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To: sea_urchin who wrote (120)	1/25/2005 6:24:20 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) of 418

Re: The whole whizbang Huygens-Cassini "Star-Trek" to Saturn's satellite was a HOAX!!! Another funny yet suspicious thing about Cassini-Huygens is that the mission relied on much older technologies than its ill-fated "Mars Express" sequel... Indeed, the latter was carried out in the early 2000s and accordingly used the latest technologies (in electronics, telecom, materials,...) yet FAILED. Whereas Huygens-Cassini is an older story that started back in 1997 --hence using technologies of the early 1990s... The landing of a probe on Mars should be a cakewalk compared to the landing of a probe on Titan 1.2 BILLION kilometers away! nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov Mars Express set off on 2 June 2003 At this time of year the positions of the two planets made for the shortest possible route, a condition that occurs once every 26 months. The intrepid spacecraft began its six-month journey from the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan on board a Russian Soyuz/Fregat launcher. Having escaped the Earth's pull, Mars Express was sent on course for the Red Planet, cruising at a velocity of 10 800 kilometres and hour, relative to Earth. Six days before arrival on 25 December 2003, Mars Express ejected the Beagle 2 lander which was to have made its own way to the correct landing site on the surface. The orbiter successfully entered Martian orbit on 25 December. First it manoeuvred into a highly elliptical capture orbit from which it moved into its operational near polar orbit later in January 2004. esa.int The journey Cassini-Huygens was launched on a Titan IV-B/Centaur launch vehicle on 15 October 1997. It is a massive spacecraft - no existing launch vehicle could have sent the 5600 kilogram craft directly to Saturn, so a technique called 'gravity assist' (or 'fly-bys') was used. [...] esa.int

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