ESA Using Raspberry Pi in Mars Dropship Proof-of-Concept - Raspberry Pi Forums


maybe old news else, stumbled across neat bit of r-pi derring-do esa.

reading article @ space.com iron metorite photographed curiosity rover, , noticed sidebar article teaser heading: "mars 'dropship' quadcopter land rovers" led video page. watching video, surprised , pleased notice quadcopter uses raspberry pi.*

traced video original article on esa website:

http://www.esa.int/our_activities/techn ... ars_rovers

led page video:

http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/videos ... ars_rovers


in video, there's couple glimpses of inverted raspberry pi (under black top plate) @ following 2 points in video:
  • 1:08 1:10 - r-pi usb, ethernet & hdmi connectors visible.
    1:25 1:28 - insertion of sd card. micro usb connector visible.
esa program, startiger, responsible wonderful marriage between raspberry pi , simulated mars landing. so, not valuable education in schools, seems equally-valuable educational tool @ highest levels of scientific research.



* i'm guessing that's arduino attached quadcopter - judging blue circuit board.

that interesting find! heard programme time ago had no idea using raspi.

conventional helicopter not work on mars - think idea it's testbed more suitable rocket-powered system, main point @ moment develop automatically selects good/safe landing site.

it's interesting see how of work raspi doing...


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