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Why is Beresheet doing a only a one-way trip?
Do lunar landers communicate with ground stations during descent and landing?How feasible would it be to move the ISS to the surface of the Moon to recycle its components in future?About Mars One's journey to MarsWhy has no lander or rover visited Hellas Planitia on Mars?Why are there so few lunar rovers?Wasn't the moon landing + reentry much harder to do than SpaceX's reusable rockets/boosters?Is a one-way manned mission to Mars currently possible?Was a one way trip to the moon considered by the crew of Apollo 13?Brushing clean a Mars lander's solar panelsFate of human-made objects on mars
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Why is the SpaceIL Lunar Lander doing a one-way trip? Is that a common project to do nowadays, to send landers to Mars and the Moon without returning them?
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Why is the SpaceIL Lunar Lander doing a one-way trip? Is that a common project to do nowadays, to send landers to Mars and the Moon without returning them?
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Maybe because of the smaller budget that drove to have a lighter payload which did not allow for extra fuel?
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– KingsInnerSoul
5 hours ago
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This is a "show" mission more than a scientific mission, and a successful landing and walkabout it sufficient to make it a spectacular success for a first time deep space mission for this agency. Returning to Earth is just an opportunity to fail, whereas success may bring interest in a follow-on mission.
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It is very common for Mars landers not to return. In fact, it is ubiquitous.
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– Organic Marble
5 hours ago
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One way trips are and have always been the norm in space exploration. The few sample return missions (mentioned by @Hobbes) are very much the exceptions.
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– ben
1 hour ago
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Next up in this series of questions: "Why didn't the space shuttle fly to the Moon?", "why didn't Apollo missions swing by Venus?", and "why didn't New Horizons land on Europa en route to Pluto?"...
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Why is the SpaceIL Lunar Lander doing a one-way trip? Is that a common project to do nowadays, to send landers to Mars and the Moon without returning them?
mars the-moon lander beresheet
edited 2 hours ago
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asked 5 hours ago
Geordi La ForgeGeordi La Forge
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Why is the SpaceIL Lunar Lander doing a one-way trip? Is that a common project to do nowadays, to send landers to Mars and the Moon without returning them?
mars the-moon lander beresheet
mars the-moon lander beresheet
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Geordi La ForgeGeordi La Forge
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Glorfindel
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Glorfindel
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Maybe because of the smaller budget that drove to have a lighter payload which did not allow for extra fuel?
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– KingsInnerSoul
5 hours ago
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This is a "show" mission more than a scientific mission, and a successful landing and walkabout it sufficient to make it a spectacular success for a first time deep space mission for this agency. Returning to Earth is just an opportunity to fail, whereas success may bring interest in a follow-on mission.
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– uhoh
5 hours ago
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It is very common for Mars landers not to return. In fact, it is ubiquitous.
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– Organic Marble
5 hours ago
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One way trips are and have always been the norm in space exploration. The few sample return missions (mentioned by @Hobbes) are very much the exceptions.
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– ben
1 hour ago
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Next up in this series of questions: "Why didn't the space shuttle fly to the Moon?", "why didn't Apollo missions swing by Venus?", and "why didn't New Horizons land on Europa en route to Pluto?"...
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Maybe because of the smaller budget that drove to have a lighter payload which did not allow for extra fuel?
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– KingsInnerSoul
5 hours ago
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This is a "show" mission more than a scientific mission, and a successful landing and walkabout it sufficient to make it a spectacular success for a first time deep space mission for this agency. Returning to Earth is just an opportunity to fail, whereas success may bring interest in a follow-on mission.
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– uhoh
5 hours ago
7
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It is very common for Mars landers not to return. In fact, it is ubiquitous.
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– Organic Marble
5 hours ago
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One way trips are and have always been the norm in space exploration. The few sample return missions (mentioned by @Hobbes) are very much the exceptions.
$endgroup$
– ben
1 hour ago
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Next up in this series of questions: "Why didn't the space shuttle fly to the Moon?", "why didn't Apollo missions swing by Venus?", and "why didn't New Horizons land on Europa en route to Pluto?"...
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– user2705196
51 mins ago
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Maybe because of the smaller budget that drove to have a lighter payload which did not allow for extra fuel?
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– KingsInnerSoul
5 hours ago
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Maybe because of the smaller budget that drove to have a lighter payload which did not allow for extra fuel?
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– KingsInnerSoul
5 hours ago
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3
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This is a "show" mission more than a scientific mission, and a successful landing and walkabout it sufficient to make it a spectacular success for a first time deep space mission for this agency. Returning to Earth is just an opportunity to fail, whereas success may bring interest in a follow-on mission.
$endgroup$
– uhoh
5 hours ago
$begingroup$
This is a "show" mission more than a scientific mission, and a successful landing and walkabout it sufficient to make it a spectacular success for a first time deep space mission for this agency. Returning to Earth is just an opportunity to fail, whereas success may bring interest in a follow-on mission.
$endgroup$
– uhoh
5 hours ago
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7
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It is very common for Mars landers not to return. In fact, it is ubiquitous.
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– Organic Marble
5 hours ago
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It is very common for Mars landers not to return. In fact, it is ubiquitous.
$endgroup$
– Organic Marble
5 hours ago
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One way trips are and have always been the norm in space exploration. The few sample return missions (mentioned by @Hobbes) are very much the exceptions.
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– ben
1 hour ago
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One way trips are and have always been the norm in space exploration. The few sample return missions (mentioned by @Hobbes) are very much the exceptions.
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– ben
1 hour ago
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Next up in this series of questions: "Why didn't the space shuttle fly to the Moon?", "why didn't Apollo missions swing by Venus?", and "why didn't New Horizons land on Europa en route to Pluto?"...
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– user2705196
51 mins ago
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Next up in this series of questions: "Why didn't the space shuttle fly to the Moon?", "why didn't Apollo missions swing by Venus?", and "why didn't New Horizons land on Europa en route to Pluto?"...
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A one-way trip is much simpler and much cheaper than a return mission.
- a return mission is more complicated because it has to do more
- a return mission is much heavier (because of the extra systems, and the fuel needed for the return capsule) which means it needs a bigger launcher which is more expensive
We have had no sample return missions from any planet. There were a few from the Moon (Apollo and Luna), and a few from objects like asteroids and comets (e.g. Hayabusa).
The SpaceIL mission is a small, low-cost mission done as a technology demonstration. A return mission would have cost 10x more.
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A one-way trip is much simpler and much cheaper than a return mission.
- a return mission is more complicated because it has to do more
- a return mission is much heavier (because of the extra systems, and the fuel needed for the return capsule) which means it needs a bigger launcher which is more expensive
We have had no sample return missions from any planet. There were a few from the Moon (Apollo and Luna), and a few from objects like asteroids and comets (e.g. Hayabusa).
The SpaceIL mission is a small, low-cost mission done as a technology demonstration. A return mission would have cost 10x more.
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A one-way trip is much simpler and much cheaper than a return mission.
- a return mission is more complicated because it has to do more
- a return mission is much heavier (because of the extra systems, and the fuel needed for the return capsule) which means it needs a bigger launcher which is more expensive
We have had no sample return missions from any planet. There were a few from the Moon (Apollo and Luna), and a few from objects like asteroids and comets (e.g. Hayabusa).
The SpaceIL mission is a small, low-cost mission done as a technology demonstration. A return mission would have cost 10x more.
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A one-way trip is much simpler and much cheaper than a return mission.
- a return mission is more complicated because it has to do more
- a return mission is much heavier (because of the extra systems, and the fuel needed for the return capsule) which means it needs a bigger launcher which is more expensive
We have had no sample return missions from any planet. There were a few from the Moon (Apollo and Luna), and a few from objects like asteroids and comets (e.g. Hayabusa).
The SpaceIL mission is a small, low-cost mission done as a technology demonstration. A return mission would have cost 10x more.
answered 4 hours ago
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A one-way trip is much simpler and much cheaper than a return mission.
- a return mission is more complicated because it has to do more
- a return mission is much heavier (because of the extra systems, and the fuel needed for the return capsule) which means it needs a bigger launcher which is more expensive
We have had no sample return missions from any planet. There were a few from the Moon (Apollo and Luna), and a few from objects like asteroids and comets (e.g. Hayabusa).
The SpaceIL mission is a small, low-cost mission done as a technology demonstration. A return mission would have cost 10x more.
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– KingsInnerSoul
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This is a "show" mission more than a scientific mission, and a successful landing and walkabout it sufficient to make it a spectacular success for a first time deep space mission for this agency. Returning to Earth is just an opportunity to fail, whereas success may bring interest in a follow-on mission.
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– uhoh
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It is very common for Mars landers not to return. In fact, it is ubiquitous.
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– Organic Marble
5 hours ago
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One way trips are and have always been the norm in space exploration. The few sample return missions (mentioned by @Hobbes) are very much the exceptions.
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Next up in this series of questions: "Why didn't the space shuttle fly to the Moon?", "why didn't Apollo missions swing by Venus?", and "why didn't New Horizons land on Europa en route to Pluto?"...
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