I wish them luck, very ambitious for no prior experience.
Space race 2: Muslimnaut boogaloo
After the Devel Sixteen, I'll believe things out of the Emirates when they're actually working.
I can't take this seriously with what they are wearing
[QUOTE=Hendo;47743366]I can't take this seriously with what they are wearing[/QUOTE]
Excuse them for wearing the clothes of their culture.
20gb of storage? that's it? surely they couldn't just shove more sd card in there?
[QUOTE=Tmaxx;47744116]20gb of storage? that's it? surely they couldn't just shove more sd card in there?[/QUOTE]
You'd be surprised how little storage space is actually need on modern spacecraft/probes. For most interplanetary probes, you can get away with only a few hundred MB of storage for program/navigation/star-nav code/data. Typically the rest of that storage space is reserved as a data buffer for Uplink/Downlink connections (i.e. Storing all the imaging data before uploading back to Earth).
Also it's expensive at this current moment with rad-hard/high-reliability memory. 20GB is quite alot for a probe (Curiosity has 2GB on board memory).
[QUOTE=Hendo;47743366]I can't take this seriously with what they are wearing[/QUOTE]
They're putting a rocket into space and a satellite into orbit around Mars. I think they could wear whatever they want, including their own culture's clothes :v:
I wish them luck but I have to wonder if they have enough experience to succeed. From what I see most of the satellites they have launched are in LEO which is a vastly easier to get to than going beyond Earth's natural protections to try and reach Mars. I am curious to what kind of rocket they're going to use to launch this though.
[QUOTE=Hendo;47743366]I can't take this seriously with what they are wearing[/QUOTE]
fuk thes muzlims takin ovr our planits!!!!
[QUOTE=darkrei9n;47744965]I wish them luck but I have to wonder if they have enough experience to succeed. From what I see most of the satellites they have launched are in LEO which is a vastly easier to get to than going beyond Earth's natural protections to try and reach Mars. I am curious to what kind of rocket they're going to use to launch this though.[/QUOTE]
it looks like they're just launching ontop of an arene rocket out of the ESA, which means that most of the hard work is already done, building boosters to launch to mars orbit is increadibly difficult, all they have to do is make sure it survives deep space, can insert itself into mars orbit, and protect itself, not trivial but not impossibly difficult
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i hope this inspires them to do more space stuff
[editline]17th May 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE=CMB Unit 01;47744578]They're putting a rocket into space and a satellite into orbit around Mars. I think they could wear whatever they want, including their own culture's clothes :v:[/QUOTE]
i tend to agree but as a westerner i can't help feel that robes designed for desert sun are a tad bit useless in airconditioned buildings, that said NASA's dress code in the 50s-80s was dress shirt and suit pants so it really doesn't matter what you wear
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