Author Topic: Curiosity (Mars rover)-Any interest? (Read 15123 times)

RCMR · « **Reply #25 on:** August 02, 2012, 11:55:30 pm »

Might have to find my binoculars so I can watch it live

EEVblog · « **Reply #26 on:** August 03, 2012, 12:24:40 am »

Quote from: HardBoot on August 02, 2012, 02:41:36 pm

Nice, well in time to pick up the wave of views from the news of the landing on the media.

I'm already doing pretty well in the Youtube search results

Dave.

EEVblog · « **Reply #27 on:** August 03, 2012, 12:27:35 am »

Anyone in Sydney want to go to either the Sydney Observatory or the Powerhouse Museum to watch it live?
The Canberra deep space network is in lockdown for the event and I can't get in

Dave.

djsb · « **Reply #28 on:** August 03, 2012, 07:07:08 am »

When you say "Live" do you mean in realtime with your own eyes or an organised event? Sorry, I can't make it. It would be one hell of a an excuse for a holiday if I could though

EEVblog · « **Reply #29 on:** August 03, 2012, 07:21:16 am »

Quote from: djsb on August 03, 2012, 07:07:08 am

When you say "Live" do you mean in realtime with your own eyes or an organised event?

The PowerHouse museum will be streaming the NASA feed, and have other things happening.
I'll be there.
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/whatson/curiosity_landing.php
So if anyone is in Sydney, come and join me.

Dave.

RCMR · « **Reply #30 on:** August 03, 2012, 11:46:49 pm »

Quote from: EEVblog on August 03, 2012, 07:21:16 am

So if anyone is in Sydney, come and join me.

Why, are you coming apart? :->

member_xyz · « **Reply #31 on:** August 04, 2012, 10:08:17 pm »

Link to very interesting JPL Simulation software. Can track simulate MSL entry and landing etc.

http://eyes.nasa.gov/launch2.html?document=$SERVERURL/content/documents/msl/edl.xml

Ed.Kloonk · « **Reply #32 on:** August 05, 2012, 12:58:51 am »

HLA-27b · « **Reply #33 on:** August 05, 2012, 07:01:02 am »

RCMR · « **Reply #34 on:** August 05, 2012, 07:37:33 am »

Hmm... I just ran my own simulation of the Sky Crane maneuver trying to land a rover on Mars -- and I have to say -- it's bad news.

AntiProtonBoy · « **Reply #35 on:** August 06, 2012, 04:11:26 am »

It's happening soon fellas!

Live stream here:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html

digsys · « **Reply #36 on:** August 06, 2012, 04:24:27 am »

Current bets are -
~~8:1~~ 1:1 Perfect landing
~~5:1~~ -1:1 Problems with landing, but fixable, possibly not 100%
~~3:1~~ -1:1 Spare parts available
Do I hear any more bids?

HardBoot · « **Reply #37 on:** August 06, 2012, 04:46:30 am »

Rover survives but ends up upside-down?

FenderBender · « **Reply #38 on:** August 06, 2012, 04:59:39 am »

I'm such a dweeb...staying up for this...Oh well.

Yeah. I think odds are pretty good. Somehow I am always confident in NASA even with their screwups, all things considered.

AntiProtonBoy · « **Reply #39 on:** August 06, 2012, 05:14:00 am »

It's happening... it's happening...

FenderBender · « **Reply #40 on:** August 06, 2012, 05:38:19 am »

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! GO NASA!!!!!

firewalker · « **Reply #41 on:** August 06, 2012, 05:38:58 am »

Everything ok!!!

bullet308 · « **Reply #42 on:** August 06, 2012, 05:40:46 am »

Wheels down and sending images.

Not bad, not bad...

HardBoot · « **Reply #43 on:** August 06, 2012, 05:46:13 am »

Back to work lol.

bullet308 · « **Reply #44 on:** August 06, 2012, 06:02:25 am »

If you heard them read off the data on the landing, lots of happy people in that room. The skycrane phase (and just about everything else) apparently worked perfectly.

Ed.Kloonk · « **Reply #45 on:** August 06, 2012, 06:09:40 am »

RCMR · « **Reply #46 on:** August 06, 2012, 06:12:39 am »

What an achievement -- space exploration, it never grows old eh?

Congrats to all those unseen and unnamed systems engineers who toiled away behind the scenes for years so that the rover could find its way safely to the red planet's surface.

Three cheers for the *unsung* heros of the day!

firewalker · « **Reply #47 on:** August 06, 2012, 06:17:28 am »

Alexander.


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