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>The copter isn't able to communicate with satellites or earth directly, so it needs to communicate with the rover itself. This is harder without line of site.
Obviously no satcom on there, but even when the chopper communicates with the rover, a LoS isn’t needed, different comms bands can survive that.
>The copter is all autonomous. Routes are planned and sent for the copter to autonomously fly, because direct control would be infeasible with the latency on Mars.
Great, so if it’s planned how they end up with that situation? Was it a calculation errors? Or they suddenly decided to move the rover and lost comms?
>The copter is charged with solar power, and needs time to charge between flights.
Ok now this is interesting, got any more details about it? As the size of the panels would be big and might hinder the chopper movement, unless something innovative was done.
>The main rover has other missions that are independent of the status of the copter. The copter is well well well past the original mission goals, so if it gets left behind that's a shame, but the main rover's missions are way more important.
Ok that’s good to know, still curious about the whole process as I do have a current project with interoperability between UAV/UGV so any previous lessons learned would be great!
Thanks again!
I don’t know there are a lot of other questions I have in mind, that article barely explains anything..
Unless something new fill these links properly, guess us human kinds are still needed :)
Another case I witnessed was in Canada, where French is an official language, yet the hiring manager excluded one candidate because he had a thick French accent..
Technically speaking too, there’s nothing as “native English”, we all do have an accent to some degree, a lot of English vocabulary are taken from other languages, and even English speakers do have a lot of silly typos and mistakes in their writing all the time, including my writings in here, so it’s never an excuse.
>And speaking of discrimination, you wouldn't hire a paraplegic person as a nurse or firefighter, right?
That’s a poor analogy, you do have the tools to properly and easily compensate such linguistic disability, as easy as having someone double checking their writing or having one of these new AI spell check tools, etc., but we don’t have the proper technology and tools to compensate for a paraplegic to be a firefighter, yet, say in the future there are proven ex-skeletons that can help, then yes you are discriminating.
Obviously those discriminations are illegal so it goes passive most of the times, by continuous interruption during meetings or intentionally asked to repeat or elaborate themselves, among other.
It’s not about communication abilities as this is usually the covert passive response for such discriminatory behaviors, a lot of these candidates can speak “better” in terms of clarity than people with Australian accent for example, it’s just another episode of “I’m better than you”, you can read more about that in here:
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210528-the-pervasive-...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2022/11/18/accent-...
https://exceptionalindividuals.com/about-us/blog/what-is-dys...
Thanks for the heads up by the way!