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Roj47
Is there a website detailing the timetable of mission completion i.e.

2015 Sun Scanned in most detail ever.
2016 Russian's land Mars
2040 First probe leaves Earth whilst retaining communication

etc...

Cheers all
The Mule
Not that I'm aware of. Here in the US, timetables are dictated by budget funding, which can change yearly, thus changing the timetables or scrapping programs completely.
MID
QUOTE (Roj47 @ Mar 18 2008, 08:42 AM) *
Is there a website detailing the timetable of mission completion i.e.

2015 Sun Scanned in most detail ever.
2016 Russian's land Mars
2040 First probe leaves Earth whilst retaining communication

etc...

Cheers all



Roj, you seem to have actually posted a timetable, given the dates presented.

I'm curious as to your meaning about the "first probe" to leave Earth while still retaining communication.
All of our probes retain communication...
Roj47
QUOTE (MID @ Mar 21 2008, 09:25 PM) *
Roj, you seem to have actually posted a timetable, given the dates presented.

I'm curious as to your meaning about the "first probe" to leave Earth while still retaining communication.
All of our probes retain communication...


Oh.... It was purely random things that came into my head at the time...

Just after a site that has when all current and future projects are expected to bear fruit original.gif
Waspie_Dwarf
QUOTE (Roj47 @ Mar 21 2008, 11:18 PM) *
Just after a site that has when all current and future projects are expected to bear fruit original.gif

You will be very limited with future projects. Is has already been pointed out they are liable to be delayed or cancelled as a result of technical, political and/ or budgetary problems. Hence only those projects nearing launch are liable to appear on any sort of time table, and so you are unlikely to find a time table that give a forecast of unlaunched projects much more than a few years ahead. As for 2040... you have no hope.

The best such timetable I know of for unmanned missions is at spacespin.org and can be found HERE. This give some information up to 2021, but remember many of the probes that will be launched between ow and then have not yet been designed / approved or even proposed on so can not possibly appear on a timetable. Hence, for unlaunched missins, this timetable will reduce inaccuracy the further into the future you go.
bandot
but that time table still on propose....
tell US to land on the moon again though....
MID
QUOTE (bandot @ Mar 22 2008, 07:46 PM) *
but that time table still on propose....
tell US to land on the moon again though....



We are indeed planning a return to the Moon.
However, even that project is subject to the continued funding and support of successive administrations and Congresses.
We will have to be sure that the right people assume those offices as we go along...
DONTEATUS
I thonk Opra and Richard Branson might beet us to the moon LoL DONTEATUS ohmy.gif
Roj47
Thanks Waspie... Spot on for what I am after...

Regards
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