How about providing links when you are posting stuff like this. You have been here long enough to know the rules.
Mars Missions
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Actually from what i hear from Grünheide (Tesla Gigafactory Berlin) and a couple other Tesla-owned factories over here neither do the people working there get a "decent wage" nor would a majority of them recommend Tesla as an employer (seriously - 54% of German Tesla employees supposedly would not recommend working there).
And among applicants - the few they get, most job offers there have been open since last year, and even on skilled manual labour they get single-digit application numbers per job... - opinions on Tesla and its processes are a whole lot worse. About the friendliest word i've been reading about that is "unprofessional" and "chaotic".
Yes, I didn't mean to imply Tesla was a great place to work or that their wages are attractive. I imagine he will have all sorts of problem in Germany, where he has been able to just push through in the US or China.
I've heard much the same things, very chaotic and they burn people out. But people are motivated by the mission. While I think Elon has strengths in many areas, he is also very flawed. Not sure I would want him as a boss. He seems to need to learn things the hard way.
Ideally you would extract the positives and remove the negatives.
I've heard much the same things, very chaotic and they burn people out. But people are motivated by the mission. While I think Elon has strengths in many areas, he is also very flawed. Not sure I would want him as a boss. He seems to need to learn things the hard way.
Ideally you would extract the positives and remove the negatives.
bearnard19
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Looking forward to some new Mars rover mission that is gonna be lounched next year. The mission is called the Rosalind Franklin rover mission . This ‘ mission will attempt to search for life on Mars and explore martiat surface. You may find more information about the mission I`ve mentioned with the help of the link I`ve mentioned.
Generally we are aware of the mission, but when you are providing specifics you are required to post the link to that source. It's in the rules - read them.
Sandhi Yudha
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Many of us still remember the Marsrover Perseverance and the Marshelicopter Ingenuity. They arrived in februari 2021 on Mars.
The original plan was to let Ingenuity fly for around 5 times, but in the end Ingenuity flew 72 flights on Mars. Now after Ingenuity's blades are damaged, Perseverance will continue to explore our neighbourplanet alone.
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The original plan was to let Ingenuity fly for around 5 times, but in the end Ingenuity flew 72 flights on Mars. Now after Ingenuity's blades are damaged, Perseverance will continue to explore our neighbourplanet alone.
Helikopter die 5 vluchten zou doen op Mars na 72 vluchten 'uitgevlogen'
De helikopter kwam drie jaar geleden aan op de planeet en zou eigenlijk maar
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NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has flown its last flight after suffering rotor damage
'The historic journey of Ingenuity, the first aircraft on another planet, has come to end.'
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'It's sort of been invincible until this moment:' Mars helicopter Ingenuity pilot says 'bland' terrain may have doomed NASA chopper
The sandy landscape offered few points of navigational reference for Ingenuity.
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Masquerader
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In the spring of this year, the lander/rover phase of the ExoMars mission got a reprieve when Thales Alenia was awarded a contract in April to restart development of the lander for the ExoMars mission ready for launch, and the ESA in May signed a memo of understanding with NASA regarding the second phase of the ExoMars mission. The invasion of the Ukraine caused the ESA to end cooperation with Roscosmos, so the Kazachok lander from which the Rosalind Franklin rover would have disembarked may have to launched by Russia from an Angara rocket because the Angara A5 is being tailored as a replacement for the Proton, and the Rosalind Franklin rover was originally to have been launched from a Proton rocket.
www.space.com
spacenews.com
NASA, ESA join forces on life-hunting ExoMars rover
NASA is stepping in for ExoMars' former partner, the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
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ESA awards contract to Thales Alenia Space to restart ExoMars
The European Space Agency awarded a contract to resume work on a Mars rover mission that was derailed two years ago by geopolitics.
spacenews.com
Sandhi Yudha
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After driving over some rocks on Mars, the Curiosity rover has discovered an abundance of pure sulfur inside the crushed rocks.
The six-wheeled rover has spotted sulfur on Mars before, but only in a mixture with other minerals, including magnesium and calcium. Pure sulfur, an odorless element that forms in very specific conditions that planetary scientists hadn't linked to the rover's location, appears to be infused in many rocks across the region, according to NASA.
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Curiosity landed in 2012 on Mars, and in 2021 Perseverance joined Curiosity in the exploration of Mars.
The six-wheeled rover has spotted sulfur on Mars before, but only in a mixture with other minerals, including magnesium and calcium. Pure sulfur, an odorless element that forms in very specific conditions that planetary scientists hadn't linked to the rover's location, appears to be infused in many rocks across the region, according to NASA.
'An oasis in the desert': NASA's Curiosity rover finds pure sulfur in Martian rocks
"It shouldn't be there, so now we have to explain it."
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Curiosity landed in 2012 on Mars, and in 2021 Perseverance joined Curiosity in the exploration of Mars.
Sandhi Yudha
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Some great news.
NASA's InSight, which was a stationary lander during operation, touched down in the Elysium Planitia region on Mars in November 2018. It maintained its mission for four years and, armed with the first seismometer to be taken to the Red Planet, it detected 1319 marsquakes.
And now, after analysing the data of these marsquakes, scienists can confirm that enough water is found beneath Mars' surface to cover the planet with a whole ocean. The ocean is buried between one and two kilometers underground.
www.bbc.com
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NASA's InSight, which was a stationary lander during operation, touched down in the Elysium Planitia region on Mars in November 2018. It maintained its mission for four years and, armed with the first seismometer to be taken to the Red Planet, it detected 1319 marsquakes.
And now, after analysing the data of these marsquakes, scienists can confirm that enough water is found beneath Mars' surface to cover the planet with a whole ocean. The ocean is buried between one and two kilometers underground.
Mars water: Liquid water reservoirs found under Martian crust
Studies of quakes detected from the planet's surface found it in the planet's rocky outer crust.
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Ocean's worth of water may be buried within Mars — but can we get to it?
Huge stores of water have been found deep inside Mars, thanks to a seismometer on NASA's InSight mission.
www.space.com
Sandhi Yudha
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The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) is a planned spacecraft mission to Mars consisting of two identical spacecraft known as Blue and Gold. The launch attempt was planned for yesterday 9 November 2025, on a Blue Origin New Glenn, but was scrubbed due to weather conditions, with a future launch date to be determined.
Blue Origin scrubs launch of ESCAPADE on second New Glenn mission - NASASpaceFlight.com
Blue Origin scrubs launch of ESCAPADE on second New Glenn mission - NASASpaceFlight.com
Mission site for ESCAPADE at NASA: ESCAPADE - NASA Science
The mission is basically a followon to MAVEN. Both spacecraft are very small (<90 kg) and carry few instruments. Comparable spacecraft with similar missions for Earth are usually launched in larger constellations, the idea is to fly the probes on identical orbits with time separation for a fast revisit of a given evaluated spot within (in the case of ESCAPADE) 30 minutes of the first flyover.
Technical details on the spacecraft and their intended mission can be found here: EscaPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) - eoPortal
The mission is basically a followon to MAVEN. Both spacecraft are very small (<90 kg) and carry few instruments. Comparable spacecraft with similar missions for Earth are usually launched in larger constellations, the idea is to fly the probes on identical orbits with time separation for a fast revisit of a given evaluated spot within (in the case of ESCAPADE) 30 minutes of the first flyover.
Technical details on the spacecraft and their intended mission can be found here: EscaPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) - eoPortal