Obligatory XKCD reference: https://xkcd.com/463/
In that case, couldn't they just coat the finger with the same stuff they're coating the 3D printed replica with? Actually, how are they getting around the RF issue?
I have to ask the morbid question, why couldn't they use the dead man's fingers directly?
Wouldn't it be awesome if future Mars science missions had a nice, constant landing platform they could design around? Like a new rover or stationary science base would just be "one Dragon unit of cargo".
Ars has really been getting into the whole Red Dragon mission this past week. I am very hopeful this is a sign of things to come. Namely a greater media focus on advances in space exploration, which hopefully leads to a…
In the book it describes how the difficulty with the calculation came from the fact that they were continuously firing the spacecraft thrusters (it was some form of drive that used a constant small acceleration). Thus…
Obligatory XKCD reference: https://xkcd.com/463/
In that case, couldn't they just coat the finger with the same stuff they're coating the 3D printed replica with? Actually, how are they getting around the RF issue?
I have to ask the morbid question, why couldn't they use the dead man's fingers directly?
Wouldn't it be awesome if future Mars science missions had a nice, constant landing platform they could design around? Like a new rover or stationary science base would just be "one Dragon unit of cargo".
Ars has really been getting into the whole Red Dragon mission this past week. I am very hopeful this is a sign of things to come. Namely a greater media focus on advances in space exploration, which hopefully leads to a…
In the book it describes how the difficulty with the calculation came from the fact that they were continuously firing the spacecraft thrusters (it was some form of drive that used a constant small acceleration). Thus…