Getting down, dirty and securely on Mars remains a delicate balance of technical skill, mixed in with hard-earned luck.
is already pre-scouting the landscape to help ascertain that primo parking space for a touch down."For the first time we can see everything that's of a concern to the lander," Chen said."We'll know exactly what's there and that's a huge advantage."
"Given what we have right now, and the need to land a huge amount of mass very precisely, what you're seeing for us is a big step, but really an evolution of what we have been doing in the past. We're excited for the opportunity to show what we can do," Chen concluded. As for the MSR effort ahead,"I won't say the word is risk because I don't know how to quantify the risks, but there are a lot of developmental challenges," Manning said."I hope we don't bump into new physics.""Supersonic Retro Propulsion is a whole new game," Manning said. Supersonic retro propulsion, SRP for short, is a method to decelerate a vehicle using retrorockets in the supersonic regime.
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