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I'm very excited for this. When I was working at JPL 7 years ago they were still trying to get approval, and now they get to test it out. I'm even more excited
by chriskanan 6y ago
I'm very excited for this. When I was working at JPL 7 years ago they were still trying to get approval, and now they get to test it out.
I'm even more excited for the Dragonfly mission with a flying drone on Titan, but that's a long time to wait: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(spacecraft) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(spacecraft)
I wish we could fund NASA more, make it more risk tolerant, more agile, and more efficient. The Titan boat drone to explore the lakes, last I heard, couldn't be scoped due to resources. Working there requires great patience.
- erklik 6y ago> I wish we could fund NASA more, make it more risk tolerant, more agile, and more efficient. The Titan boat drone to explore the lakes, last I heard, couldn't be scoped due to resources. Working there requires great patience. I wonder if funding NASA more would mean that the "inventive" ideas get reduced. The limitation of NASA's funding has meant that they've produced ideas and technologies to cover that shortfall in even cheaper ways than possible before, and that might be reduced with a much large budget.
- Daho0n 6y agoI believe so. Funding competitors would likely yield better results, unless one is looking for US results versus results overall of course. A lot of very exciting missions are from other space agencies these days, which is great!