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SpankYouScientist t1_jea13x3 wrote

CMU has some seriously good robotics students. The NREC and Planetary Robotics labs are wild.

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Prostheta t1_jeah44r wrote

Hopefully these guys don't get blasted and screw up like I did at Uni, otherwise there'll be a rover-sized shoebox on the moon.

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Select-Owl-8322 t1_jeano1e wrote

> The rover will fly on a private rocket carrying 14 payloads to the moon, which includes Iris, projects for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as well as some humans.

Are they saying that they will send "some humans" to the moon on a private rocket?

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Meneth32 t1_jeas6nf wrote

First Vulcan Centaur launch? The rocket where this just happened?

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IPDDoE t1_jeavn7a wrote

Replying to DanTrachrt (#2,489,858)

Agreed, but when I first read the title, my immediate thought was about how they would be able to launch something so small. The headline isn't misleading, but could be worded better imo

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focus503 t1_jeb9emg wrote

I was surprised to see how big the mars rovers were, seriously thought they were like the size of an average office printer.

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dern_the_hermit t1_jebdqq0 wrote

Replying to vipEmpire (#2,493,666)

The wording's fine, guys. Just because someone is capable of misreading or reading too much into a headline that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the headline. That's just language, and how people can sometimes parse the wrong thing from it. Communication isn't some contest to see who can have the least ambiguity.

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JustAPerspective t1_jebgys3 wrote

The Human Legacy: flinging trash everywhere with no thought to clean-up.

Evolutionarily equal to shit-flinging simians, except humans use middlemen.

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sifuyee t1_jebrmxy wrote

Replying to focus503 (#2,496,977)

The first ones were. There are a number of scientists that argue more cheap small rovers would yield more science than large expensive singular rovers, but so far they're not winning the NASA awards for contracts. I think we'll start to see more diversity of size in the future awards, given how successful small satellites are becoming.

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sugabeetus t1_jed1vnb wrote

Wake me up when they start having robot fights on the moon.

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mfb- t1_jee35a1 wrote

Replying to Select-Owl-8322 (#2,491,799)

In May!

The only Moon-related launch scheduled for May (sort of) is Vulcan's maiden flight with the Peregrine lander (and two Earth orbit satellites for Amazon) as main payload.

No humans on board obviously. Vulcan is never expected to fly people to the Moon.

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ChefExellence t1_jee3mjs wrote

Replying to SnooWords6686 (#2,520,028)

The new moon landing program, (called Artemis) currently has a working space capsule (called Orion) and a rocket that can launch it to lunar orbit (called SLS), so can send humans to lunar orbit on Artemis II.

The lander (called Starship HLS) and suits (called AxEMU) are not scheduled to be ready until Artemis III because they did not receive contracts and funding until very recently.

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mfb- t1_jee3ou8 wrote

Replying to TrIpmasterforce (#2,508,628)

Not on that rocket, and not in May (and not in 2023). Not sure what the author got mixed up there.

Artemis II is planned to send humans around the Moon and Artemis III is a planned Moon landing.

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Decronym t1_jee4kbe wrote

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules| | |Central Standard Time (UTC-6)| |FAA|Federal Aviation Administration| |HLS|Human Landing System (Artemis)| |SLS|Space Launch System heavy-lift|

|Jargon|Definition| |-------|---------|---| |Starliner|Boeing commercial crew capsule CST-100|

^(4 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 22 acronyms.)
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