They want to try it, including dynamic soaring!sailplanes-for-mars-exploration/
https://www.eurasiareview.com/02072022-engineers-design-motorless-
They want to try it, including dynamic soaring!sailplanes-for-mars-exploration/
https://www.eurasiareview.com/02072022-engineers-design-motorless-
... would not have been able to relaunch for a second flight.
On Fri, 1 Jul 2022 15:50:00 -0700 (PDT), Matt Herron Jr. wrote:Appears there's been some progress since their initial attempts. But not a Mars airframe.
They want to try it, including dynamic soaring!
https://www.eurasiareview.com/02072022-engineers-design-motorless-sailplanes-for-mars-exploration/
On closer reading, this proposal doesn't seem to improve on the Aurora marsplane, though I think its a bit smaller and lighter, because neither aircraft can take off after landing.
In addition, I don't believe I've ever read anything that even hints of
the possibility of dynamic soaring (or slope soaring for that matter) on Mars. I also know (Bob Parks communication) that the Aurora guys thought
that their Marsplane would only be able to fly in the parts of Mars with
the lowest ground level, such as Hellas, Argyre and the northern planitia.
Even hard-extrapolation SF authors like Kim Stanley Robinson (he wrote the Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy) doesn't think an aircraft would be capable of flight using aerodynamic lift until colonists have done drastic things to raise the Martian air pressure: his colonist's first aircraft are airships using hot gases for lift.
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On Fri, 1 Jul 2022 15:50:00 -0700 (PDT), Matt Herron Jr. wrote:This approach might have potential https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/zephyr-high-flying-drone-has-been-up-for-17-days-as-part-of-army-test
They want to try it, including dynamic soaring!
https://www.eurasiareview.com/02072022-engineers-design-motorless-sailplanes-for-mars-exploration/
On closer reading, this proposal doesn't seem to improve on the Aurora marsplane, though I think its a bit smaller and lighter, because neither aircraft can take off after landing.
In addition, I don't believe I've ever read anything that even hints of
the possibility of dynamic soaring (or slope soaring for that matter) on Mars. I also know (Bob Parks communication) that the Aurora guys thought
that their Marsplane would only be able to fly in the parts of Mars with
the lowest ground level, such as Hellas, Argyre and the northern planitia.
Even hard-extrapolation SF authors like Kim Stanley Robinson (he wrote the Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy) doesn't think an aircraft would be capable of flight using aerodynamic lift until colonists have done drastic things to raise the Martian air pressure: his colonist's first aircraft are airships using hot gases for lift.
--
Martin | martin at
Gregorie | gregorie dot org
Appears there's been some progress since their initial attempts. Butfor-autonomous-soaring/
not a Mars airframe. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-frigatebird-ai-
This approach might have potential https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/zephyr-high-flying-drone-has-been-up-for-17-days-as-part-of-army-test
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