JMckie
07-07-2004, 04:24 PM
I know there are a lot of astronomy buffs here. A story on Yahoo posted today.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=96&ncid=753&e=10&u=/space/20040707/sc_space/redplanetwayfinderagpssystemformars
"Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), for example, have been laying the groundwork for a Mars Network for navigation and communication.
Previous network designs called for a constellation of small microsatellites called Marsnet to serve Mars explorers while a larger spacecraft, Marsat, would relay data between the planet and Earth."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=96&ncid=753&e=10&u=/space/20040707/sc_space/redplanetwayfinderagpssystemformars
"Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), for example, have been laying the groundwork for a Mars Network for navigation and communication.
Previous network designs called for a constellation of small microsatellites called Marsnet to serve Mars explorers while a larger spacecraft, Marsat, would relay data between the planet and Earth."