[ExI] Mars rover on its way

Kelly Anderson kellycoinguy at gmail.com
Sun Nov 27 11:37:55 UTC 2011


> The launch sequence isn't what scares me on this mission, it's that landing
> sequence.  That is a controls engineering trick that will impress me
> bigtime, if it works, but will not surprise me a bit if it fails.  Landing
> something like Curiosity in the JPL way is one of those things Ray Charles
> would agree is hard even after you know how to do it.
>
> Good luck Curiosity!

Indeed. Aren't only about half of the missions to Mars successful to
date? Seems like everyone who goes there gets something wrong a lot of
the time. It would be nice for this one to work though!

-Kelly




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