Bruce Yost
Bruce Yost
chicken egg flight fly heritage next previous space
In the space world, to be able to fly the next new mission, you have to have flight heritage from the previous mission. But if you don't fly the previous missionit's kind of a chicken and egg thing.
batteries cells charge power run solar
When we're in Sun, we run on the solar cells and charge the batteries. In eclipse, just the batteries power the spacecraft.
batteries biology completed critical engineers exercise fail operate since spacecraft students system wear
We would like to have students and other engineers exercise and operate the spacecraft after the biology has been completed for at least some of that time. Of course, if a critical system were to fail or wear out, like the batteries or communications radio, then that's it since we do not have a lot of redundancy in the design.