Celebrating Spirit, The Mars Rover 4

[IRstuff]

A noble effort, to be sure. However, surpluses for USPS stays in USPS, while deficits may, or may not, be made by by the US government. ;-)

TTFN

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[KENAT]

Ok then, I'll claim one half less mile on my taxes next year.

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[IRstuff]

Now, that's a good little citizen ;-)

TTFN

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Chinese prisoner wins Nobel Peace Prize

 

[zekeman]

Not to minimize this extraordinary work but--come on- throw infinite money at it and you are bound to get great designs. I know from the LEM days.

 

[GregLocock]

I wonder what the actual design life (MTBF) was? Obviously 90 days was no good, as that would give a 50% chance of failing to meet its necessary life span, that's no good. Given the typical failure curve for a complex electromechanical system, choosing the reliability of each component (offset against weight and redundancy)must be quite a trick.

Cheers

Greg Locock


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[JavaMoose]

Greg, you aren't kidding! I've burned almost a full (slow) Friday reading that blog. Really interesting and enjoyable to read. Make me wish I was over at JPL (yeah, like that would ever happen!).