This week was very busy from the SAT to Final presentation night, but a lot happened over the last two weeks. The events of spring break are covered in Blog 17 so this blog will cover the events of the week from the 28th of February to March 3rd. As I trudge on with week two on Scientific instruments, I still have not chosen instruments for my Atmosphere and I still need to worry about power and eventually Launch Trajectories. I should cover it here, but it looks like the Trajectory planning Software has a learning curve and the other software I found is locked behind a $1000+ per month subscription. This may force me to work faster or to use a basic trajectory which I managed to find on a Basic Trajectory finder. However I have been researching some of the instruments on the Huygens probe as well as the Galileo Atmospheric probe as well as some instruments on a proposed mission to Neptune. Though I knew this probe would be more complex, I did not expect the surprise in learning Launch trajectories. In other news I can already remove Russian Launchers from a possible selection (I may be forced into an Atlas V anyways) as due to events involving One Web.
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