Talk:Don Quijote (spacecraft)

Redirect
This is ridiculous! Don Quijote should be a redirect to Don Quixote - or, arguably, the other way around. A space probe is not what people expect to see when they look up "Don Quijote". 69.140.12.199 22:22, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * agree —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.84.69.160 (talk) 13:40, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

No, what's ridiculous is that the article still says that the launch date will be sometime between 2013 and 2015 when clearly the mission is still in its conceptual phase (and with the current economical climate in europe it will probably not be realized in the near future). Maybe somebody can update the time schedule here?62.216.165.236 (talk) 20:49, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi people, Just one remark to set the title fine: the European Space Agency calls its mission concept Don Quijote in English (and Don Quichotte in French). https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2008/01/Don_Quijote_mission (https://www.esa.int/Space_in_Member_States/Switzerland_-_Francais/Don_Quichotte) --MANARAJu (talk) 15:11, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

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Naming Conventions
Is Don Quijote the name of the complete assembly of the three crafts, the name of the proposed mission, or the name of the Study to consider the feasibility of the proposed mission?

Are there two or three vehicles: Orbiter (Sancho), Impactor (Hidalgo), Lander (Autonamous Surface Package)? Were they intended to travel together as an assembly to the asteroid, then split, or travel as separate flights? Refer to: "The craft would have been launched by a Vega launcher ..." implying a single launch vehicle.

There are multiple references to the naming convention of the vehicles throughout the article, that seem inconsistent, and cause confusion, in light of the fact that there are two/three vehicles involved in the system. The terms in question are, in order of appearance: "Space Craft"; "Space Probe"; "Orbiter"; "lander"; "Impactor" "Craft".

Names section: The comparisons are confusing: "Like Quijote, the Hildaldo spacecraft ... "  OR  "Hidaldo was a minor Spanish title ... ".

The article seems incomplete: Propulsion section for all four vehicles;  Instrumentation section for three vehicles. SquashEngineer (talk) 17:05, 6 August 2021 (UTC)