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Title: How The Curiosity Rover Will Land on Mars (NASA Video)
Post by: 75Plus on December 22, 2011, 05:57:00 PM

Curiosity Rover in headed for Mars. This animation shows how it will (hopefully) land.

http://www.wimp.com/curiosityrover

Joe

Title: Re: How The Curiosity Rover Will Land on Mars (NASA Video)
Post by: sparky961 on December 22, 2011, 06:11:04 PM

Didn't I see a build log somewhere here for that rover?

Thanks for sharing the link.  I would love to know how many hundreds of thousands of dollars (of taxpayers' money) were spent on making the pretty animation!

-Sparky

Title: Re: How The Curiosity Rover Will Land on Mars (NASA Video)
Post by: Rob.Wilson on December 23, 2011, 02:18:38 AM

Nice one Joe  :thumbup:

Its ALLOT  bigger than i thought it would be  :bugeye:  http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/images/20081113_msl.html  .


Rob

Title: Re: How The Curiosity Rover Will Land on Mars (NASA Video)
Post by: Powder Keg on December 23, 2011, 08:00:04 AM

Looks expensive and complicated. Thanks for sharing.

~Wes~

Title: Re: How The Curiosity Rover Will Land on Mars (NASA Video)
Post by: Lew_Merrick_PE on December 23, 2011, 11:42:58 AM

I would feel a whole lot more confident if Joe Cassidy was on the team that did the design/development of the landing system.  This is another wonderment from the kids at JPL who multiplied g's times kg (forgetting to convert to m/s²) to come up with Newtons a few years back.  On the other hand, my hypergolic fuel pump seems to be working well...

Title: Re: How The Curiosity Rover Will Land on Mars (NASA Video)
Post by: Rob.Wilson on December 23, 2011, 11:57:42 AM

Quote from: Lew_Merrick_PE on December 23, 2011, 11:42:58 AM

  On the other hand, my hypergolic fuel pump seems to be working well...

Hi Lew ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, and whats dose one of those look like  :D :worthless:  :D


Rob

Title: Re: How The Curiosity Rover Will Land on Mars (NASA Video)
Post by: Joules on December 23, 2011, 02:55:19 PM

Lets hope it doesn't go like a Beagle...

Title: Re: How The Curiosity Rover Will Land on Mars (NASA Video)
Post by: Lew_Merrick_PE on May 26, 2012, 11:07:22 AM

Quote from: RobWilson on December 23, 2011, 11:57:42 AM

Quote from: Lew_Merrick_PE on December 23, 2011, 11:42:58 AM

  On the other hand, my hypergolic fuel pump seems to be working well...

Hi Lew ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, and whats dose one of those look like  :D :worthless:  :D

I was not allowed to keep any of the pictures or video of the development work.  There was a really neat video of the first plume test which was done a bit after midnight in the field where the company I was doing work for performed such tests.  It was a 15 foot long bright white plume coming out of a 2.5 inch diameter thrust motor...

Title: Re: How The Curiosity Rover Will Land on Mars (NASA Video)
Post by: BillTodd on May 28, 2012, 07:59:03 AM

That's a long retro 'burn'  ( I really hope someone a has programmed a few bogus '1202' errors just to keep the bowels loose at mission control  :lol:)

Fingers-crossed that it all goes well - if it's only half as successful as Spirit and Opportunity it'll still be a fantastic achievement  :)