As with most other space missions of the time, the crucial issue was enabling a successful mission with the minimum space and weight requirements. Whereas previous automatic probes had successfully functioned on relatively simple computing equipment, the Viking probes were relatively ambitious and required more complex and therefore bulkier and heavier hardware. To address this, redundancy in the hardware was reduced and the number of biology experiments on the Landers was reduced to two: the "Wolf Trap" and "Labeled Release" experiments. A number of other instruments were also carried, including cameras on board both the orbiters and the landers. In order to carry this payload, the rockets used to launch the Viking missions had to be more powerful than originally planned and the cameras w
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| - As with most other space missions of the time, the crucial issue was enabling a successful mission with the minimum space and weight requirements. Whereas previous automatic probes had successfully functioned on relatively simple computing equipment, the Viking probes were relatively ambitious and required more complex and therefore bulkier and heavier hardware. To address this, redundancy in the hardware was reduced and the number of biology experiments on the Landers was reduced to two: the "Wolf Trap" and "Labeled Release" experiments. A number of other instruments were also carried, including cameras on board both the orbiters and the landers. In order to carry this payload, the rockets used to launch the Viking missions had to be more powerful than originally planned and the cameras w
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| - As with most other space missions of the time, the crucial issue was enabling a successful mission with the minimum space and weight requirements. Whereas previous automatic probes had successfully functioned on relatively simple computing equipment, the Viking probes were relatively ambitious and required more complex and therefore bulkier and heavier hardware. To address this, redundancy in the hardware was reduced and the number of biology experiments on the Landers was reduced to two: the "Wolf Trap" and "Labeled Release" experiments. A number of other instruments were also carried, including cameras on board both the orbiters and the landers. In order to carry this payload, the rockets used to launch the Viking missions had to be more powerful than originally planned and the cameras were fairly low resolution due to bandwidth restrictions imposed by processing speeds of the onboard computers.
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