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I visited there a few months ago, and satellites are not a big concern for Rubin in particular. It will visit every part of the sky over 800 times and add all those images together…

Personally (and to some extent, professionally) I make a distinction between robotics and automation. In robotics, I look for a distinct, physically embodied system that can make d…

I'm the author of this piece, and I'm happy to tell you where it came from. I was at a robotics conference in Boulder last spring, where some folks from Lely presented a paper on t…

I wrote this story, which originated entirely from a single picture on brr [1], an Antarctica blog that has wonderful, detailed descriptions about how the South Pole station functi…

This paper is based on the performance at the 2022 event, but it took this long to write it up and get it published. The tracking system was used during all of the races for data c…

This is all the next step. If they end up putting together an actual mission proposal, they can factor in power budgets for specific science instruments, sun angles and seasonality…

It's hard to get a good sense of scale from the image, but the solar panel on the concept is about 0.5m in diameter. JPL has run the numbers as part of their engineering study, and…

You can see how the whole thing would fold up in the linked article, there's an image from the white paper that shows MSH fitting into the same size aeroshell Mars Pathfinder used.…

JPL has run the numbers on this as part of the engineering study. The solar panel shown in the concept image (in the center) charges a battery that gives MSH a 10km range or 5 minu…

The most likely way for MSH to get funded in the near term is as part of NASA's sample return goals. 5kg of science payload is not insubstantial, but even if MSH's primary instrume…

I asked Bob about this. There are a bunch of options, but one way to do it is that you use a hollow projectile that takes a core sample, and then you just reel back in the core whi…

I interviewed Bob and wrote this article, so I can answer a few of these. I think JPL's idea is that MSH would be a dedicated helicopter mission, rather than piggybacking on some o…

If you're looking for a better resolution version of the concept image, as far as I know there isn't one. The original is here, and it's not great: https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.go…

I'm the author of this. It was certainly surprising to learn that a lot of what AVs are doing right now is limited by the amount of power available to the computers. It didn't make…

I wrote the article; thanks for this info. Since your sister has posted this publicly on her Twitter account, I'll happily add her name to our article if I can get in touch with he…