Comments on: June 1, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

By: wayne

wayne — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 23:37:14 +0000

Philosophical Society of Washington Meeting Number 2459
“Ingenuity The First Flying Machine on Mars”
Bob Balaram (May 24, 2022)
https://youtu.be/jJCTUchs52U?t=895

“Bob is the originator of the concept that became the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, and he served as the Chief Engineer for Ingenuity throughout its design, development, test and operation phases.”

By: Edward

Edward — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 21:34:49 +0000

George C. Propsed: “That helicopter worked so well that I wonder if JPL is thinking of a mission that would be an exclusive delivery of 100 at once by a simple capsule.”

Except for the lack of sufficient Earth-Mars communications, that sounds like a good idea.

Not only would it increase the exploration, but the necessary additional communication network would give plenty of business to a commercial deep space network company and a commercial Martian satellite company.

By: George C.

George C. — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 10:14:22 +0000

That helicopter worked so well that I wonder if JPL is thinking of a mission that would be an exclusive delivery of 100 at once by a simple capsule. When the air got thick enough they would all eject like in the early Vostok missions. But auto gyro down and power land instead of parachute.
Think of the revenue from the naming rights Maybe $5,000,000 a pop? Enough to fund it? With so many sub missions to plan after the landing event, JPL would need to subcontract the work to dozens of teams at the university and maybe even high school level around the world. NASA could retain the reality show licensing rights to the science show drama exploration concept, but independent production companies would do the work