MARS LANDER!!!

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oh yeah guess i should bump my own thread...
not gonna say that this is uber spoopy but i assume Europe and Russia are more likely to tell us of the things on mars.

>mars

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37707776

No signal from European Schiaparelli Mars lander

It has a heat shield which should allow it to aerobrake in Mars' rarefied upper atmosphere, however the heating can get quite aggresive as the lower atmosphere is approached.

When it gets to the lower atmosphere the chute should open as a drogue to help slow the craft down and fully deploy just above the martian surface.

Finally it has rocket thrusters to allow a retroburn (braking burn) to put it right down onto the surface.

So there's plenty of room for diaster. It could overheat and assplode, the parachute may not deploy correctly and finally if something goes wrong with the retroburn it will bump down hard onto the surface.

And they've lost the sgnaal, so who knows. If it did make it down they should have a signal in about an hour from now when it starts to boot up for surface manouvers. If we don't have a signal then, its prolly fucked

>>18249495
that fianl stage look dangerous as fuck. if theres a problem with the radar then that final drop from 2m could be a problem. the thrusters should be ok as the hydrazine should ingite automatically so long as the rest of the control system works ok. finally the thing has a crumple zone to soften its landing, nothing to help balance it on landing. wouldnt be surprised if it lands on a rock and rolls over. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING OMG!!! lol, i hope it's ok though

Everyone knows Euros can't land on Mars
How many failed attempts have they had now?

>>18249520
6 out 17 i think i heard them say

>>18249532
There have been some really silly mistakes over the years. Mixing up imperial and metric units on mArs Climate Orbiter. Cocking up the filesytem on Spirit Rover. On the whole NASA has had more success than the rest of the world, but they've had a few failures too.

>>18249550
its fucked. RIP schiaparelli.

>>18249509
Yes but it's fake so it will succeed.