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post Dec 21 2005, 03:59 AM
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At the afternoon seminar on Dec 12, 2005 at the Hayden Planetarium, Steve Squyres also talked a little about MSL (he is a member of MSL's review board). I apologise if some of these notes are redundant in this forum:

- MSL's skycrane technology will be tested via a physical simulator in addition to computer simulations; quite an elaborate setup is being constructed for this purpose at JPL.

- There will be no "local" landing control, i.e. if unlucky, MSL could land right on top of a rock.

- The re-entry capsule's center of gravity will be offset from the geometric center and thus dynamic steering (a la Apollo) will be possible - and indeed required, to meet the much smaller landing ellipse [10km instead of 50km I think he said?].

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- Airbag   Steve Squyres Comments On Msl   Dec 21 2005, 03:59 AM
- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (Airbag @ Dec 20 2005, 10:59 PM)At the ...   Dec 21 2005, 04:57 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   I'm bewildered by that too -- the whole purpos...   Dec 21 2005, 08:42 AM
|- - Airbag   Well, that is what he said. There was not much ti...   Dec 21 2005, 03:25 PM
- - lyford   Oh noes! Could the ghost of Big Joe come back...   Dec 21 2005, 06:01 PM
- - djellison   Perhaps what he meant is that it wont be able to n...   Dec 21 2005, 09:34 PM
|- - Airbag   QUOTE (djellison @ Dec 21 2005, 05:34 PM)Perh...   Dec 22 2005, 03:25 AM
- - RNeuhaus   QUOTE (Airbag @ Dec 20 2005, 10:59 PM)- MSL...   Dec 21 2005, 10:40 PM
- - mars loon   QUOTE (Airbag @ Dec 21 2005, 03:59 AM)At the ...   Dec 22 2005, 03:32 PM
- - lyford   Thanks for your clarifications - looking forward t...   Dec 22 2005, 04:29 PM

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