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NASA prepares for second 'flying saucer' test


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The space agency will be testing out its futuristic Mars landing system over Hawaii this week.

While NASA\'s sky crane mechanism was successful in lowering the Curiosity rover on to the surface of Mars back in 2012, landing the modules necessary for human habitation on the Red Planet is going to require something a lot bigger and a lot stronger.

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NASA's Flying Saucer Makes Second Voyage to the Edge of Space

NASA's Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) launched on Monday, June 8th from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii. The saucer-shaped vehicle was used to test new technologies that will help NASA land heavier payloads than current technology will allow on the surface of planets including Mars. The test vehicle was carried by balloon to about 120,000 feet. After release, an engine took the vehicle to 180,000 feet, where the tests occurred in the thin atmosphere to simulate Mars' atmosphere. This flight test was the second of three planned for the project. The LDSD mission is designed to test entry and descent technology in the form of a donut-shaped airbag and a supersonic parachute that can be deployed while the vehicle is traveling several times the speed of sound.

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I was watching the coverage but got called away on a plumbing emergency 5 minutes before drop time. I rode shotgun and just caught the ignition, but the chute deployment was hard to see with the sun's glare on my iPhone screen. Still very cool event coverage despite the chute fail.

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Another ufo sighting coming up..

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Another ufo sighting coming up..

There are two very good reasons why there are no UFO sightings coming up as a result of this test:

  1. Tthe saucer like vehicle is carried to 120,000 feet by balloon before being dropped and the rocket fired. The balloon drops the vehicle over the ocean, in an area cleared of boats and aircraft for safety reasons. So, apart from NASA personnel, who are unlikely to mistake it for a UFO, there will be no one to see it.
  2. The test has already happened.

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There are two very good reasons why there are no UFO sightings coming up as a result of this test:

  1. Tthe saucer like vehicle is carried to 120,000 feet by balloon before being dropped and the rocket fired. The balloon drops the vehicle over the ocean, in an area cleared of boats and aircraft for safety reasons. So, apart from NASA personnel, who are unlikely to mistake it for a UFO, there will be no one to see it.
  2. The test has already happened.

Thanx for the info. I din read the whole story yet..

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