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7:21 pm
November 19, 2009
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galonar
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I like where this is going, I'm all for getting back to the moon. What we need to remember is that the task is probably a lot more work than people think. Especially if we ever want to move to a manned flight. Using off the shelf, consumer grade components is great for a prototype, but it won't fly (no pun intended) for a real mission.
I work at a leading aerospace company, in Attitude Control Systems Engineering. I'll help out wherever I can, but my expertise is in attitude determination and control hardware.
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12:32 am
November 20, 2009
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Luke Maurits
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Welcome!
Using off the shelf, consumer grade components is great for a prototype, but it won't fly (no pun intended) for a real mission.
It may be an attitude we have to soften on to some extent, but a large part of the ethos of the project so far has been that achieving our goals is actually going to require using off-the-shelf thing wherever possible – otherwise our development costs and times are going to bleed slowly to infinity. Obviously if there truly is some kind of component where nothing consumer grade will come even remotely close, we'll be forced to develop something new, but I think that failing that the idea has been that modifying or using multiple redundant off-the-shelf devices has to be our preference.
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Main CLLARE workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.
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6:29 am
November 20, 2009
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Rocket-To-The-Moon
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Welcome! It is great to see people with real skills joining the project. I think that we all realize this is an extremely ambitious project, but I also think that we'll surprise ourselves in a few years time with what we have accomplished. Once the website is finished then we can start recruiting real talent.
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