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these steps

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will help us get ready for the future

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tests during the fall

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where we will be doing further mobility

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testing for viper

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to understand the rover's performance in

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terms of how how well

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the rover can traverse simulated lunar

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soil

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how well it can overcome obstacles like

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rocks

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and slope is the ideal location for this

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type of mobility test it's a world class

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facility

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we have a really well characterized soil

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we have unique capability that it's

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indoors and we can control the

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environment very well

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the tilt bed on the slope itself is very

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well controlled

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we've recently added software upgrades

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advanced our optical tracking system

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quite a bit we installed a 16 camera

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infrared tracking system

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which allow us in the software to

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identify individual pieces of the

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vehicle

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which we can track in real time it has

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been challenging

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to work through this pandemic but this

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pandemic has also brought opportunities

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to look and understand and learn how we

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can

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keep highly performing and engaging

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teams

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we encountered procurement delays

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covid delays snow delays and we still

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we still pulled it off and made it

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happen and it was a huge team effort to

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get here

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viper is a rover of many first the first

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nasa's rover to map water resources

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and is the first rover to wear a

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headlight

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for many many years i was dreaming about

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joining nasa

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and sending big rovers to mars and other

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places in the solar system

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so that dream came through last year

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when i joined nasa glenn

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to lead and manage projects for future

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missions to mars

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and i love mars but i also love the moon