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"A large volume of data recovered from the Mars lander shows that the atmospheric entry and associated braking occurred exactly as expected" In every communica
by isoprophlex 10y ago
"A large volume of data recovered from the Mars lander shows that the atmospheric entry and associated braking occurred exactly as expected"
In every communication and media event they keep putting a positive spin on what now turns out to be in essence a preventable design error...
- TeMPOraL 10y agoThey have to, unfortunately, because general public (including journalists) doesn't understand that mistakes happen, and ESA being seriously underfunded as it is, cannot afford bad publicity. Also, this was a test flight designed to gather data about the performance of the orbiter/lander platform, so it did perform its mission and according to the collected data, the platform behaves mostly as expected.
- baq 10y agothey're fighting tooth and nail for this mission's successor (which will be the real deal vs what was effectively an expensive acceptance test run) to not be canceled, i.e. politics.