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all right welcome everyone so I were a

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few minutes late today technical

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challenges but we are here and excited

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we're talking again about the Mars 2020

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Rover and more specifically something

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that is the first of its kind I'm gonna

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jump in here right away and show you

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this as a little bit of a tease what

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we're talking about and what's to come

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that is correct for the first time ever

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we will be taking a helicopter to

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another planet super excited I'm your

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host today Joshua Santora coming to you

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from near the Kennedy Space Center I'm

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coming to you from my house

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we are excited today to welcome a couple

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guys out from the Jet Propulsion

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Laboratory but do want to highlight the

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fact that we are a spaceport open for

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business and active and ongoing

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specifically today we're talking about

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the launch services program or that's

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certainly the part of the Space Center

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that is active with Mars 2020 they are

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managing the launch for this rover so

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super excited for that excuse me of the

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rover and the helicopter so we're gonna

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go ahead and jump in now I'm gonna

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introduce my two guests here I have

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today håvard grip who is the flight

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control and aerodynamics lead and he

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also has the amazing task of being a

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helicopter pilot a Martian helicopter

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pilot Hobart thanks for being here well

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sorry I hope I'll try that one more time

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I had your mic and you did okay yeah

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just saying yeah it's good to be here

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yeah thank you so much and also today we

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have Josh Raymond Josh thanks for being

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here

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yeah absolutely so you are an ingenuity

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mechanical lead for this helicopter so

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let's jump right in here to some

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questions so thinking about this

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helicopter I want to know what

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specifically your roles are obviously

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this is something where you're kind of

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writing the book on this because

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nobody's done it before so I'll start

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with you Hubbard and then go to you Josh

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what's your role and what do you

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actively engage with on this helicopter

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yes since I started this project out in

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the Marshall copter lead for flight

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controller dynamics so that what that

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means is I led a team that's developed

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physical and mathematical models of the

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helicopter and then developed algorithms

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for navigating and controlling the

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helicopter and now that we're headed to

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Mars my role would be to basically

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operate operators algorithms by

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commanding it to do the things of the

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that we wanted to do and

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Rowlett na'ka'leen chief pilot and josh

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i'm the mechanical engineering lead so

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responsible for most of the the JPL

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designed hardware interfaces to all the

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other subsystems on the vehicle as well

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overseeing the actual build and assembly

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into a flight vehicle that were really

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involved in trying to turn a normal type

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of helicopter I mean there's not that

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much that's normal about this helicopter

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but you know what you think of as a

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helicopter package that for launch on a

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rocket and you know travel through space

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as well as just you know overseeing all

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the mechanical operations from you know

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from assembly through tests through

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integration into the river so sticking

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with you Josh thinking about the

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mechanical nature of this of the

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challenges that are here we probably

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activity on the moon if it had an

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atmosphere but there's no atmosphere on

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the moon so a helicopter can't work Mars

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we do have a little atmosphere so what

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are the biggest challenges in trying to

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operate a helicopter on another planet

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specifically Mars well I mean I'm sure

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we could talk hours on the various

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challenges we had to overcome on this

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project but I think if you ask anybody

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the biggest challenge would be the mass

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thin on Mars it's about 1% of the

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density on earth at sea level so it's

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hundred thousand feet on earth somewhere

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up in that range so mass keeping mass

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flow as low as possible to overcome the

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weight of the vehicle it's a huge huge

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challenge I had to do a lot of sort of

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non-standard approaches to you know get

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around that so there we've got a shot on

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screen of the helicopter itself so can

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you help me understand how big is this

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about a typical sized helicopter since

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we're flying all the way to Mars correct

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so actually the the blade wing spans a

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little bit over a meter so you know a

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little bit over three to four feet

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height is about half a meter tall and

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it's a little less importance awesome

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very good håvard how do you how do you

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test this helicopter on earth because

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and energy to not only develop this but

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to also put it on a rocket and invest

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the extra fuel to get it to Mars how do

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we get there so when it comes to testing

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you have to do the fact that you can't

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replicate all aspects of Mars here on

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earth and certainly not at the same time

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elements of the environment that you

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those tests to form a complete picture

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behave in the low-density atmosphere on

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Mars and so for that we made extensive

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use of what we call a 25-foot space

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simulator at JPL and that's a big vacuum

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chamber where we have the ability to

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replicate the Martian atmosphere and so

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dynamic tests and actually fly the

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vehicle as well and then there are

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certain things that we simply can't

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replicate on Paris at all and in

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particular that's the case with gravity

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do mechanically in order to try to

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approximate it in the video that you're

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just showing right now for example as a

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tests flight where we're offloading part

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of the gravity with a tether in order to

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help it also the park you know the

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Mars gravity but ultimately because we

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can't replicate it fully but then also

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order to under this understand the

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effect to that so one of the questions

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that's already come in and feel free to

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ask questions in the chat box there as

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we go through the show today was how do

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you protect the the mechanical elements

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the expose elements from dust particles

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did you want me to take this one hard

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yeah please so on the on the rover

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itself there's actually debris shield so

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rover so as we're coming down you know

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it's kicking up dust kicking up rocks

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they're just you know certainly rocks so

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we have actually quite a big debris

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shield to protect us yeah you can see

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kind of in purple in the in the picture

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there once we once we're deployed we

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actually did a lot of you know looking

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into you know what the dusts would be we

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don't think the dust will be so bad so

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there's a little bit you know a little

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bit of effort into you know how to keep

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dust out of the mechanisms but for the

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most part we've done a lot of efforts

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and found that you know we don't expect

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it to be as big of a problem as you'd

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earth okay awesome so we kind of alluded

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to the fact or we're specific with the

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fact that you're launching on the belly

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of the rover so Hobart can you talk a

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little bit about what's the process once

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we have successful touchdown which we're

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targeting for February of 2021 so what

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are we deploying day one is it we're

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waiting a while what's what are the

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criteria to kind of move us forward in

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the timeline so yeah we deploy

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immediately after landing there are

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certain commissioning aspects of the

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rover itself that has to happen first

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looking for a place to drop off the

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helicopter and so when we're looking for

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a drop-off spot for the I look after

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things that we're interested in or that

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we need to to find is an area where we

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can operate not of not only to take off

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area and then come back and land in that

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area again so specifically for that

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a problem but for takeoff and landing

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for the helicopter so left at moderate

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slopes we're looking for rocks that

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features in the terrain one of the

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things about the helicopter is we have

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to navigate you know the hell

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compressing know where it is at any

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that we can hang on to and so we have to

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make sure when we pick a drop-off spot

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that the surrounding terrain is not so

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bland that there aren't any features

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that we get that we can track and Josh

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can you talk about what the power is

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to have a power so we're somewhere I

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or just batteries so what are we

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expecting for or what what is in store

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for ingenuity a name recently given to

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the helicopter again I think a student

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from Alabama naming this one which is

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pretty cool yes actually we have both of

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what you mentioned we have stolen panels

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and batteries so helicopter you know sit

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around charge up you know might take

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about it you know a day charges up its

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batteries and then it'll go through its

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flight actually a lot of the battery

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power goes into other things like

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surviving the Martian night which is

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quite harsh but yeah and about it you

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know about a day you know works out

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pretty well to operate the mission and

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Hobart can you speak to why there's no

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science onboard I understand that there

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and so what are what are we really

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hoping to gain what's the value in the

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benefit of this this part of the mission

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instruments onboard is that ingenuity is

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what because technology demonstration

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where the end goal is to perform a set

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of experimental test flights in order to

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show that it's possible to fly a

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helicopter Mars and to lay the

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groundwork for future missions you can

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compare it to how the Wright brothers

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demonstrated the feasibility of powered

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flight did an experimental test flight

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once we proven out the technology that

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lays the groundwork for future missions

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can use helicopters in in useful roles

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and that includes carrying their own

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and Josh can you speak to the the nature

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of kind of and I'm going to try to faint

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phrase this question but kind of how we

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got to this point did you have to have

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special accommodations to have those the

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shields for the helicopter and how to

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actually like mount it successfully to

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the bottom of a rover like what's kind

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of gone into that that process to be

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ready to have this thing in place and

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and useful when we get to Mars

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absolutely so as I might have referenced

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earlier you know it's not just a normal

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I mean again not a normal helicopter

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mission but even amongst the helicopter

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mission this is also a space launch

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mission so trying to package a

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helicopter to launch on a rocket it was

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a quite a challenge and everyone from

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the 2020 project the rover team as well

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as the helicopter team spent a long time

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working out the engineering how to

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support the helicopter properly asking

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how do you hold it how do you connect

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the blades I protect the legs how do you

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pass communication signals from the

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rover into the helicopter and back out

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again so everybody really good you know

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a great job worked really hard on both

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sides of you know the team's the rover

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team helicopter team and we're just

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grateful that you know we all work

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together so well and came up with such a

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you know such a good design yeah awesome

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obviously it is super exciting thinking

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about the future where are you guys

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planning to be for for launch and

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landing of the perseverance mission

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obviously for the helicopter portions

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you have a ways after landing to go but

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kind of leading up to that how are you

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guys engaged I'm hoping personally to to

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be able to witness the launch that's

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that's that's my hope yeah me too cool

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finally be in Florida for landing you

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know sure we'll be watching on TV like

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everybody else you know expectantly

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waiting awesome good well gentlemen

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appreciate your time today thank you for

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this obviously like we're all gonna be

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super excited anytime we do something

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that is undeniably innovative it gathers

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people's attention so I'm personally

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super excited to see this thing

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I'm assuming and this is something we

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haven't really talked about art are we

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gonna have cameras on board to be able

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to get footage back from flying around

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Mars we do have cameras on board there

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two cameras there's a downward looking

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camera that we used for navigation that

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I mentioned before and there's also what

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we call the return to Earth camera which

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is a higher resolution color camera

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that's out there looking and we do have

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the ability to take pictures and some of

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them will be downlinking so that we can

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see that here on earth awesome very cool

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Hobart Josh thank you so much good luck

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I know that there's still probably some

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work to do and a lot of waiting but wish

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you the best and thanks for joining us

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today absolutely thank you so much all

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right so before we let you go for today

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I want to be able to highlight a couple

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more things going on

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specifically I want to as have been in

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the habit recently sharing some NASA at

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home stuff our show here is definitely

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part of something bigger than just us

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the NASA at home effort is really broad

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and expansive specifically we want to

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highlight some things for you today this

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one just the apps available there are so

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many really cool NASA apps everything

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from artistic related things to virtual

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reality augmented reality great videos

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great content from space station and on

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earth and exploring Earth and

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understanding earth so please be sure to

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check those things out those are

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phenomenal also want to highlight a few

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things for you that happened this week

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in social media it has been a big week

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for social media things happening and

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definitely a lot coming up with

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Commercial Crew kicking off specifically

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we want to point to an announcement I

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mentioned this at the end of the last

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show the human Lander system

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announcement we announced three

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recipients of a very big award as part

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of this grant or a part of this research

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proposal or demonstration proposal

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forgive me and those specific words are

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probably not the right ones I'm not the

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guy in charge of this program but Blue

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Origin Dianetics and SpaceX

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all received awards so super excited for

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what's coming that is pointing to us

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having Landers for the our tennis

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program for sustained presence on the

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moon not just a return but sustained

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presence also this I don't know what

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this means exactly but it's super

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exciting and it's fresh

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apparently Tom Cruise is working on a

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movie on Space Station this is a tweet

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from our administrator talking about

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this so I'm sure there's more details to

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come keep your eyes peeled for that it

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should be exciting whatever it is and

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then definitely be tuning in track NASA

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Commercial Crew we're within 30 days now

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which means there is there are things

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happening all the time getting the crew

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and the rocket and the spacecraft ready

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certainly within the last week there's

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gonna be a ton but follow NASA

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Commercial Crew Twitter and you can stay

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in touch with all of that and that's

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gonna do it for me today here from the

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Kennedy Space Center sort of but I just

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want to remind you that even the sky