Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 23/1/2004As I type this, I'm watching the clock and anxiously waiting for the next scheduled attempt to communicate with the Mars rover. Good luck in getting the thing back, chaps, and let's hope the second rover lands safely this weekend.
[January 23, 2004, 12:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I am baff, I am surprised", said Steve Squyres, scientific director/conductor of the Rover mission. For a couple of days now, NASA has been trailing a very important press conference, due at 7 p.m.this evening UK time, when it promises to unveil...
[March 5, 2004, 16:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog In the US, Mattel's Hot Wheels Action Pack of the Pathfinder Lander and Sojourner rover sells out in hours. One story circulating is that the Rover design stems from the day that the scientists had the funding for a previous and much larger mission...
[July 12, 1997, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
News In the US, Mattel's Hot Wheels Action Pack of the Pathfinder Lander and Sojourner rover sells out in hours. One story circulating is that the Rover design stems from the day that the scientists had the funding for a previous and much larger mission...
[July 12, 1997, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In practice, it's almost happening: while I had to hang on the phone to find out what was going on with Magellan a few years back (that was the probe to radar-map Venus), I pretty well watched the Mars Rover do its thing live on a JPL website.
[February 5, 1999, 16:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News In practice, it's almost happening: while I had to hang on the phone to find out what was going on with Magellan a few years back (that was the probe to radar-map Venus), I pretty well watched the Mars Rover do its thing live on a JPL website.
[February 5, 1999, 16:30]
C++ Creator: It's Bigger Than Ever
News Sun Microsystems has touted the use of Java in the Mars Rover, but Stroustrup claimed that C++ was also used. For example, C++ was used for scene analysis and route planning in the Mars Rover autonomous driving system, according to Stroustrup.
[April 22, 2005, 14:20]
Open Source Developers Provide 'glimmer Of Hope'
News For example, I would dearly love to have a good look at the [proprietary] code running in the Mars Rover. It has to be good - it's been running on Mars for 15 months and has to be debuggable remotely.
[April 22, 2005, 11:25]
