Red Whittaker - Landing the Lunar X PRIZE

Red Whittaker presents 'Landing the Lunar X PRIZE', part of the Field Robotics Center Seminar Series. This seminar covers the roles of Carnegie Mellon and Astrobotic in the X PRIZE, and the challenges involved in sending a robot to the moon.

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Science & Technology

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• red
• whittaker
• lunar
• prize
• exploration
• astrobotic
• technology
• the
• moon

[fvgdfbdokd]

At 7:55. It is actually very easy to know exactly, down to less than a meter, of where you are in space. There is an array of radio telescopes on Earth called the Deep Space Network that NASA operates. They can send a signal to the spacecraft and measure the time it takes for a reply (and measure that time to about a nanosecond which is about the time it takes the a photon traveling at the speed of light to traverse 1m) to get an exact measure of distance. Wonder why they are not doing this.

[Larsosborne]

@9:15 he becomes a jackass.

"Why did the mars rovers fail?"

[oisiaa]

I wish you and your team the very best!