NASA's InSight Mars Lander, All Systems Are They for Monday Touchdown

The systems will start up on November 26, NASA staff associated with the InSight mission today (page 21).

Speaking at the conference, the spacecraft has made 295 million kilometers (475 million kilometers) of 301 million kilometers (484 million km). But it remains one of the most serious barriers to entry, descent and landing, and it will begin within 3 hours. EST (2000 GMT) on Monday (November 26).

"My heart is like a drum on my chest," said NASA project manager Tom Hoffman. "If there is no turkey tomorrow there will be a lot of JPL people here [NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory] We hope to work all day long, taking a little bit of dinner at the turkey, but we will try to get a good deal of Mars. " [NASA’s InSight Mars Lander: Full Coverage]

Thanks to this work, a spacecraft needs a smaller knock on the ground. Since its launch, InSight has made four small monkeys to reach their destination. He has been able to overcome an extra maneuver since the others were so smooth, and the team thinks he is able to leave the last adjustment adjustment until 25th November.

The supply of spacecraft will be adjusted correctly, everything will be smoothed in the entrance, descent and landing process. Although this process lasts less than 7 minutes, it can go a bit wrong, while the spacecraft spends its speed at 12,000 mph (19,300 km / h) at 5 km / h (8 km / h).

Fortunately, landing is clear, according to the scientists that provide the daily updates of the new touch. The stormy storm in March has plummeted mostly, and InSight's landing site, Elysium Planitia, has been a quieter one. "Over the last month or so, things have been very good," said Rob Grover, responsible for the entry, fall and landing phase, said in the media. "We hope that the earth will fall to the ground, and that's why we're happy."

Once it touches InSight, it will cross poligons about 16 minutes to break it again in a shot that will break. Then the plot will open its circular array of solar arrays. It will be an important step in the process, the only one on the table.

If this first deployment does not work, InSight has three more options to expand them, Stu Spath, Lockheed Martin's project manager, built a lot of spacecraft, he said in the media. "The space ship can be fully taken care of at this time," said Spathe.

The crew confirmed that it would be a bit of a wait to see how the landing was going. Solar arrays unification will have the latest confirmation from Mars Odyssey's 2001 orbit. But this spacecraft will be worsened by the planet, so it can send the message to Earth, so the team needs 6 hours of orbital mechanics to line up correctly.

A couple of small satellites with InSight, Mars Cube One or MarCO, can make it easier to wait. Both assistants perform a technology test, if they do all they do, they send their Earth signals to Earth again bypassing large Mars orbiters.

The rest will report the earthquake later on November 26, from the day that the NASA launches the press conference, from 5:00 p.m. EST (2200 GMT). Until then, Philippe Laudet, in the direction of the InSight seismometer project, said the news sections, "Thank you, thank you and you will see Mars next week!"

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