While I'm really glad they do it and go there, I am not sure if this is the right way. If anything was to go wrong, then the complete mission is lost. And that would be terrible considering the timeframe of 20 years.
ESA should follow the SpaceX approach of sending several "mass produced" spacecrafts, or at least follow the Mars mission modell and send two. That was also done in the 70s with Voyager and others.
While I'm really glad they do it and go there, I am not sure if this is the right way. If anything was to go wrong, then the complete mission is lost. And that would be terrible considering the timeframe of 20 years.
ESA should follow the SpaceX approach of sending several "mass produced" spacecrafts, or at least follow the Mars mission modell and send two. That was also done in the 70s with Voyager and others.