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In about 8 months I will know...

fraz said:
Super freakin' cool... and a local guy of all things. You don't actually work on this stuff on our side of the hill do you Mike? Congrats and I look forward to hearing about the success in 8 months. :thumbup
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Thank you. Those parts were made at a shop in Scotts Valley. I'm now working in a shop in Campbell.
 
That's really impressive, and it seems like the landing technologies have really progressed since that other mars lander which basically came crashing down surrounded by big beach balls.
 
Really exciting!!! Congrats! I'll just go back to work here at the paper clip factory and dream.
 
I went to work at a shop (Next Intent, SLO), that were just finishing up the wheels for the last rover when I started there, very cool stuff.
 
I have/had a hub puller that was used on the lunar rover - in my previous life I worked with a bunch of guys that did guidance for the Apollo missions - they ended up at Delco Systems in Santa Barbara. When I was there we built all the Guidance Control systems for the Delta and Titan launch platforms that put a bunch of this stuff in orbit. Got to spend time at Vandenberg going thru the Shuttle launch site. Still gives me goosebumps!

Very interesting work, and we did a lot of cool things at that facility. Building something that goes into space is extremely cool, but the reams of paperwork (yea I'm old) that are generated by just one assembly is mind numbing.

I'll bet you spent some serious hours on those parts.

Good for you Mike95!
 
oobus said:
Very interesting work, and we did a lot of cool things at that facility. Building something that goes into space is extremely cool, but the reams of paperwork (yea I'm old) that are generated by just one assembly is mind numbing.
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so is aerospace, it's still paper based, with computer assist.
 
Bump,

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Inspirational indeed. I just deleted all the neg crap that the last stats brought fourth in honor of holding tenuously to the idea of positive progress.
Old Tech + New Tech :hail
 
In all seriousness, major thumbs up :thumbup

My dad worked at JPL way back when. Good to actually see the stuff they're doing :) And that you're literally stamping the name all over the Martian landscape!
 
Our first mars landers were soft landers using chutes and retrorockets too. The Viking landers were stationary robotic labs tho.

The beachball idea was a pretty good one. Less places to make mistakes.

This one has to be a lot smarter. It has to be able to hover in place for awhile and have the intelligence to reject an unsuitable landing site and move to an alternate before lowering the rover down.

Not sure what is gained by the extra complication, as the previous retrorocket landing system also provided for excavation, and as a rover it can move away from any possible contamination so that negates the need to isolate the lander from the mobile lab, doesn't it?

mercurial said:
That's really impressive, and it seems like the landing technologies have really progressed since that other mars lander which basically came crashing down surrounded by big beach balls.
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OOOOooooHHHHhhhh! Does anyone have a link for watching via web? I do not have Cable!
 
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