ExoMars mission: ‘13 years of British research strapped to massive bomb’

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taxslave said:
What does that little tag on the bottom right corner of the rocket say? Made in China?
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Russia's Proton rockets were manufactured by ГКНПЦ им. М. В. Хру́ничева (Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centre) in Moscow. The first was flown in 1965. This launch will be the 411th of a Proton. Of the previous 410 launches, 363 were successes and 47 were failures. They are launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which is now an independent nation but was part of the Soviet Union in 1965. However, the Kazakhs allow the Russians to launch their Proton rockets from Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is leased to the Russian government until 2050. Sputnik 1, the world's first satellite, was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in 1957, as well as Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft, in 1961.
 
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13 years for this shows why you are a failed nation and are a blight on the earth. You need to start doing some constructive things if you want to survive.
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Riiiight,. But almost 20 years of putting together a mission and then launching it just to take pictures of Pluto is the kind of thing that makes America great?
Apparently, you seem to think that the time between an announcement to go to Mars and the time the mission actually takes place should be something that can be accomplished in matter of a couple of years. If you just want to buzz around the planet in orbit, then yeah, 13 years is ridiculous. If you want to do the deepest in-depth study done on Mars yet, it's not something you're going to whip together in a few months. First you have to decide what you're going to do when you get there. Then you have to figure out what you'll need to accomplish that mission. Then you have to figure out how to cram all the instruments into a rather small payload and then you have to build them, taking steps along the way making sure each component operates that way it's expected/intended to.
 
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Jinentonix said:
Riiiight,. But almost 20 years of putting together a mission and then launching it just to take pictures of Pluto is the kind of thing that makes America great?
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Not really, I see all those types of 'projects' as being a waste of time and money considering the shape some parts of the world are in, in no small part due to the foreign policies of the UK and the US.
 
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