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NASAs 2020 Mars Rover Will Have 23 Cameras
2017-11-01 21:13:06| Extremetech
NASA has unveiled the camera setup for its upcoming 2020 Mars rover. Why have a separate camera unveiling? Because there are 23 of them. The post NASA’s 2020 Mars Rover Will Have 23 Cameras appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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NASAs 2020 Mars rover may use a new technique to scan for ancient alien life
2016-08-17 20:15:33| Extremetech
A closer look at Raman spectroscopy data could help the next Mars rover ID the most important rocks on the planet.
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Super-antenna could let Mars rover talk directly with Earth
2015-09-15 15:20:14| Extremetech
An amazing new antenna prototype from UCLA has the potential to make Mars missions a whole lot easier to run.
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Principal Spacecraft Systems Engineer Exo Mars Rover
2015-06-08 19:05:53| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
AIRBUS GROUP A vacancy for a Principal Spacecraft Systems Engineer has arisen within Airbus Defence Space in Stevenage. As the successful applicant you will support the system engineering managers with a target focused on Exo Mars Rover to module interfaces. The successful candidate will be subject to UK National Security Clearance in order to undertake related work in accordance with business needs. Your main tasks and responsibilities will include Requirements management and change impact analysis, including verification planning and tracking. Technical resource and performance budget management including some underlying analyses. System level Tradeoffs including both technical and programmatic factors, including costs. Interface management. Identifying dedicated analyses needs to ensure full engineering coverage to meet the requirements, formulating plans for approval and executing them within the team. Preparing progress reports of work performed, in both Word and PowerPoint styles. Presenting and communicating complex technical problems and solution approach to internal and external parties. Review of subcontractor documentation including design reports, analyses, tradeoffs, technical budgets, interface requirements and designs etc, including raising and coordination of RIDs at design reviews. Coordinating multiauthor documentation as book captain, including datapack generation planning and tracking. Generating own documentation including responsibility to progress through signature loop. Answering relevant customer RIDs at design reviews of Astrium work. Chairing and secretary tasks of meetings as required. Work package management. Work area management and associated planning and reporting. This role will involve some travel for business and as such you must be able to travel accordingly. We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience Educated to first degree level or equivalent in Engineering, Science, Physics or related topic. A proven experience in system engineering and in space engineering is mandatory Understanding of EMC, Cleanliness and electricalmechanical interface would be appreciated. Experience in and understanding of requirements engineering in DOORS. Knowhow project management processes meeting management, change management, action tracking is mandatory for the position. PC literacy is required A fluent level in English is mandatory. To apply click here
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Curiosity rover finds ancient Mars lakebed with strong potential for harboring ancient life
2014-12-09 14:47:55| Extremetech
NASA's Curiosity rover has found the strongest signs yet that the surface of Mars, roughly 4 billion years ago, had conditions that would've been almost ideal for the genesis of life. NASA says that Curiosity has found evidence to suggest that Gale Crater was once filled with lakes, rivers, and deltas that contained water for tens of millions of years -- long enough that some small organisms could have emerged.
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