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   Hello Wilfred!   
      
   ** On Sunday 21.02.21 - 17:52, you wrote to me:   
      
    AA>> I would have thought that they would.. maintain the gauges   
    AA>> on the screen all the time.   
      
    WvV> I think they want to cater for a wider audience, but don't   
    WvV> realize most of their viewers are more of the nerd kind,   
    WvV> that don't care to much of the people in the control room   
    WvV> and just want to see the figures...   
      
   Nah.. I think they screwed up.  BUT, they did offer other     
   streams. If I remember correctly one of them was an     
   "interactive" thing that DID have the gauges on the lower part     
   of the screen, and the top was some kind of visualization of the     
   descent.  They sometimes showed that one for a few seconds     
   during the stream that I was watching.  But most of the time it     
   was just a view of the engineers sitting behind their consoles -     
   waiting.   
      
    AA>> Too bad they designed the jetpack to be discarded. Why   
    AA>> couldn't it be designed to land safely (farther away..   
      
    WvV> Weight. It costs a lot to put kilograms into space.   
      
   True enough.  They probably had to work within certain initial     
   guidelines and cut back with things (lighter material, less     
   cables, etc) until they were within spec.   
      
      
    WvV> ..And it did have a camera!   
      
   Yes.. I forgot about that.   
      
    WvV> It took a video of the whole landing procedure that will   
    WvV> be published later (probably because it is still being   
    WvV> transmitted to earth).   
      
   I saw the one pic showing the sky crane cables.  That was a good     
   quality pic.  I wonder what kind of bandwidth they have for     
   tranmitting video back to earth.   
      
   I was really impressed with the TRNS (terrain relative     
   navigation solution) radar, to scope out and select the best     
   landing spot and only having a few seconds to do that, and then     
   having the jetpack navigate to that spot.   
      
      
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