Thread: What happened?
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Old October 24th 16, 10:47 AM posted to sci.space.policy
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Default What happened?

jacob navia wrote:
Le 23/10/2016 Ã* 15:40, Jeff Findley a écrit :
Seems awfully silly.


All bugs are that: stupid mistakes. ESA was able to land on Titan, and
now they are unable to land on Mars.

Why not copy the opportunity/spirit design?

It was robust and very simple.


It looks like this was an attempt to land a device with much higher mass.
It seems like this one was very heavy for what it was intended to do
on the surface, they wanted to experiment for the next mission which
intends to land a much larger rover.