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Re:Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft by augusto-moura on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @08:33AM (#24906770)
> Blowing a raspberry in the surface of the asteroid

Classic Manley

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Re:Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft by lolbot on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @09:46AM (#24907354)
From TFV:

"In order to be able to perform the landing they needed to update their software to give it optical navigation abilities ..."

Imagine being part of the team that had to do that, fast, chop-chop, or else their billion dollar space mission would fail miserably.

"Oh, you only need us to implement vision. Ok, no biggie."

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Re:Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft by londons_explore on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @10:30AM (#24907772)
I assume it was more a case of "We have an algorithm that successfully lands the craft 80% of the time, but we would like it to be 99% of the time, so get to working on it..."
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Re:Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft by peterwoerner on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @12:05PM (#24908757)
Usually its 99.7% percent of the time: three standard deviations.
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