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    ^^^I have a lot of thoughts on the topic, but probably shouldn't put them online. It is risky regardless. But I have never seen an explanation of why the sky crane is better than designing the powered descent stage so the rover sits on top or in and then drives off/out after landing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 406 View Post
    ^^^I have a lot of thoughts on the topic, but probably shouldn't put them online. It is risky regardless. But I have never seen an explanation of why the sky crane is better than designing the powered descent stage so the rover sits on top or in and then drives off/out after landing.
    Play some Kerbal Space Program. Seriously. Rocket science is really, really, really fucking hard. So many trade offs and it all boils down to deltaV.

    As for sky crane vs. lander, it's weight saving (don't need landing legs, just use the rovers wheels and shocks) and a big improvement on the vehicle center of gravity in relation to center of thrust in order to keep the rover wheels side down on landing, especially on uneven terrain. Lots of physics benefits as long as the computers and sensors hold out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DJSapp View Post
    Play some Kerbal Space Program. Seriously.
    This is so funny, on so many levels...

    Not that the Kerbal part is untrue, but to whom you are directing that comment to..

    The floggings will continue until morale improves.

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    m20 landing in 18 hours! https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
    Something about the wrinkle in your forehead tells me there's a fit about to get thrown
    And I never hear a single word you say when you tell me not to have my fun
    It's the same old shit that I ain't gonna take off anyone.
    and I never had a shortage of people tryin' to warn me about the dangers I pose to myself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Meathelmet View Post
    This is so funny, on so many levels...

    Not that the Kerbal part is untrue, but to whom you are directing that comment to..
    Oh no, I know exactly whom I was directing that to. That game gets a lot of the physics correct enough to illustrate the bigger points, and can be pretty unforgiving if you're not thoughtful about how you design your ship. It doesn't incorporate Murphy's laws when one of your thrusters fails on decent and throws you into a spin, so at least you have that going for you.

    My point of top heavy vs. bottom heavy landers is amplified in KSP in funny explosions with little green people. The number of top heavy landers I've wrecked in that stupid game before I started really paying attention to CoM and CoT on the decent portions led to many hours of frustration. Many landed only to tip over after the thruster shut off because the ground wasn't level enough. Now think about landing a craft with a small car on top of it, on unlevel ground, without a pilot and NOT tipping it over.

    Back on point - this is about roll stability in aircraft, but many of the points carry through to descenders. Self stabilizing craft to get the rover to the ground are desirable. The Sky Crane design with a dangling pendulum payload is more stable than many other designs as long as it remains within the flight envelope, which leads to the rover landing rubber side down.

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    2.5 hours until landing sequence
    Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood.
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    I've concluded that DJSapp was never DJSapp, and Not DJSapp is also not DJSapp, so that means he's telling the truth now and he was lying before.

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    Touchdown.

    The floggings will continue until morale improves.

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    Sky crane 2 for 2. Congrats NASA & JPL
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    Incredible!

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    Outstanding.

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    Ohhh yeah Nice work!

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    Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood.
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    first image is really cool with the rover shadow and the haz cam did not get so dirty this time

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    Did NASA post that one public?

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    They showed the nav cam pictures almost as they were downloading.

    All amazing. Congrats to everybody involved.

    Also some very smart ladies in that room. I tried to stay focused on the landing.

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    the raw images public site is starting to populate:
    https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/

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    Quote Originally Posted by 406 View Post
    the raw images public site is starting to populate:
    https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
    completely bad ass
    www.dpsskis.com
    www.point6.com
    formerly an ambassador for a few others, but the ski industry is... interesting.
    Fukt: a very small amount of snow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 406 View Post
    Nope. But do have a camera going to Jupiter orbit that launched in 2011 and doesn't arrive until 2016...not as long as Pluto, but seems like forever.
    Wait, without wading through this thread again, a good place to find this content?
    www.dpsskis.com
    www.point6.com
    formerly an ambassador for a few others, but the ski industry is... interesting.
    Fukt: a very small amount of snow.

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    Last edited by 406; 02-18-2021 at 10:18 PM.

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    Also check out:
    https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing/

    The raw images get posted there and public can process and upload.

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    I haven't seen any info on topics and not logged in yet, but if you like images of cool engineering, might be worth watching the 3pm eastern press conference today. I'm guessing bunch of stuff will go public after.

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    FUCK YEAH. Lifted from Perseverance's twitter feed

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    If you missed the press conference, I did some screen grabs. They said full version should be on public raw images webpage ~hour.

    wheels look $$$
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    color version of first image love the shadow, note RSM not deployed.
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    Bravo mag. Amazing shit.

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