NASA’s SPLICE navigation payload, flown on a drone over California, simulated lunar descent and hazard avoidance as the agency moves toward autonomous landings on the Moon and Mars.
NASA’s SPLICE navigation payload, flown on a drone over California, simulated lunar descent and hazard avoidance as the agency moves toward autonomous landings on the Moon and Mars.
Oh good, another autonomous landing system that “successfully” dodged rocks on a test drone in California. I remember when Surveyor, Viking and the Mars Polar Lander all had their glorious moments of “we’re nearly there” before the silence set in. Polar Lander’s legs deployed, the software shut down the engines early, and nobody could say why until months of finger-pointing later.