The optics on the machine falling over are horrendous. The CEO lying the model down on the side for a large stretch of the press release yesterday interacted badly with the stock price.
I've just about convinced myself that the falling over is interesting but unimportant. There was a statement that the panel under the vehicle contained "passive experiments" which didn't need to leave the machine. That probably means the various experiments it's supposed to run can happen anyway.
The fixed antennae being pointed in an unhelpful direction seems bad for bandwidth but that could mean send the experiment results back with higher priority than photos of the surface which also sounds alright.
I'd really like to know whether NASA are happy with the run (i.e. paying for it and keen for the next) or putting on a brave face for the press. Interested to see what this community thinks about it, reddit is having signal to noise challenges.
Obviously the optics are horrendous, it's why they had to go to the backup optics :)
I thought it was weird that they didn't do any testing of this primary system until they needed it to correct their orbit. One would think dry running all of their components as soon as feasible in the mission plan would be SOP.
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The optics on the machine falling over are horrendous. The CEO lying the model down on the side for a large stretch of the press release yesterday interacted badly with the stock price.
I've just about convinced myself that the falling over is interesting but unimportant. There was a statement that the panel under the vehicle contained "passive experiments" which didn't need to leave the machine. That probably means the various experiments it's supposed to run can happen anyway.
The fixed antennae being pointed in an unhelpful direction seems bad for bandwidth but that could mean send the experiment results back with higher priority than photos of the surface which also sounds alright.
I'd really like to know whether NASA are happy with the run (i.e. paying for it and keen for the next) or putting on a brave face for the press. Interested to see what this community thinks about it, reddit is having signal to noise challenges.
Obviously the optics are horrendous, it's why they had to go to the backup optics :)
I thought it was weird that they didn't do any testing of this primary system until they needed it to correct their orbit. One would think dry running all of their components as soon as feasible in the mission plan would be SOP.