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sometimes you have to do something just

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to show that you can do it

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when the wright brothers flew for the

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first time they do

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an experimental aircraft and in the same

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way

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the mars helicopter is designed to show

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that we can fly

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and helicopter flight in the martian

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from day one this was the unwavering

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dream of our team

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to get our helicopter launched to mars

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so that we can get that opportunity to

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do the very first rotograph flight test

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in the actual environment of mars it's

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extremely difficult to

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fly at mars because is so thin compared

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to earth

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at mars it's less than one percent so

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the first and foremost challenge is

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to make a vehicle that's light enough to

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be lifted

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and then the second is to generate lift

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the rotor system is to spin very fast

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two thousand

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twenty two hundred twenty four hundred

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twenty six hundred we're spinning

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between two thousand and three thousand

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revolutions per minute and it takes a

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lot of energy

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so it's that balance of a very light

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system

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yet having enough energy that's needed

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to

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time it takes off the time it lands

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what we do do on the ground is we plan

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the flights and so we determine from

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here

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our experiment window is 30 martian days

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so we have planned up to five flights

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of incremental difficulty very first

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flight the

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main thing is we want to get the legs

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off the ground and so we will

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basically go up about three meters and

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we'll hover there

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and then we'll come down again and that

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will be the first you know really

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major milestone most of our flights will

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be at the three to five meter height

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we will be going horizontally again at a

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few meters per second

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probably go out you know 50 70 meters

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and come back in

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successive flights we'll probably push

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that further try to go further

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so our priority will be to get back

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engineering telemetry and not so much

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images

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but i'm sure we'll return a few you know

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because they'll always look cool

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at this point we've tested all we can on

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earth

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we have mathematical models that shows

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how it will fly at mars and we've tested

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it

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in the simulated environment that we can

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create on earth

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it really is time now to do the real

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flood types at mars

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nothing is a given but we have done

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everything we can in terms of a test

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program here on earth the vehicle is

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performing extremely well so far it's

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been doing exactly the right thing

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even right now and is bolted onto the

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perseverance rover so

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there's a very good chance that we'll

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pull it off yes but it's still high risk

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and none of us forget that you could

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have a glitch that

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you know could mean end of mission yes

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it's going to be

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exciting reacting to any surprises

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what's really most important is

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everything we're learning here

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is for the future roto craft systems