To all SSC Station occupants
Thank you for the donations over the past year (2024), it is much appreciated. I am still trying to figure out how to migrate the forums to another community software (probably phpbb) but in the meantime I have updated the forum software to the latest version. SSC has been around a while so their is some very long time members here still using the site, thanks for making SSC home and sorry I haven't been as vocal as I should be in the forums I will try to improve my posting frequency.
Thank you again to all of the members that do take the time to donate a little, it helps keep this station functioning on the outer reaches of space.
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The taking off of the Ingenuity helicopter is a pretty great achievement for the Perseverance mission and for whole space exploration area. Excellent work by NASA's scientists and engineers. I guess that this flight will help humans in futher Mars exploration and of course it will help in making the first crewed mission to the red planet
Lets talk about the fifth flight of Ingenuity. The 5th flight of Ingenuity was successful and landed in new location. It was a one-way flight and during this flight drone gained a new altitude — 10 meters. It was a new record. On the whole, helicopter just started to perform its mission — to explore new sites for the rover, and it does it successfully. So as you can see Ingenuity makes an important job and helps scientists in the exploration of Mars
Looks like the Chinese have landed their lander and rover on mars.
Looks like the Chinese have landed their lander and rover on mars.
Yep! Rover wars? Competing for resources already, perhaps? Or simply pure science?
Looks like the Chinese have landed their lander and rover on mars.
Yep! Rover wars? Competing for resources already, perhaps? Or simply pure science?
Given how the Chinese think long term, they made be thinking of making a historical claim based on where their lander land in the future.
The Chinese have one big advantage over Nasa in the that the communist party of China is willing to fund their space exploration over a long period of time, unlike Nasa which is at the mercy of which ever administration is in power for it's budget.
As for the commercial companies it's too early to say weather they have the legs to keep going.
The Chinese have one big advantage over Nasa...
They perhaps have another big advantage: they won't really care how many of their own people may die along the way. If NASA was to suffer a few deaths during manned exploration, there'd be an outcry, and it'd knock them back. The shuttle disasters show that.
A cynical opinion, I know - but as far as I can see, that's the way of it.
There is a lot of enthusiasm and skepticism around Mars colonization. Also mixing life footprint from the past and building a new ecosystem into one subject.
But think that of the amount of work done and experience gained during past several years on a regular basis.
There is technology, opportunity, concept and a goal.
For me, result should be like a least a station beyond the Earth. Never experienced conditions before for a human to adapt (for how long it's possible), push horizons and evolve technology. Gather new information and use it.
Go and try rather than daydream.
Drone flight teams are very happy after successful launches even though not so spectacular.
Ingenuity has had a software upgrade and its mission extended - an awesome little machine!
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