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good vehicle
good spark light showing green so Masten has been a part of the flight
Opportunities program since its inception we were one of its first
customers there's a lot of benefits one we get to fly a rocket we're always
testing our own hardware two we get to interface with like-minded individuals
who have at the end of the day the same goals which is to go to the moon go to
Mars go to these other bodies and so we get to interact with them we get to
understand how they do things those are transfer of knowledge both ways and we
build these strategic partnerships that are only going to facilitate these
broader and deeper areas of exploration that we ultimately want to do
confirming that test light-up vehicle payload are good and we're ready to
start the checklist so Masten is the flight provider of these flights without
directive another quick check we fly the vehicle through a trajectory that mimics
that target destination whether it's the Moon or Mars and gives them the fidelity
of data that again they're not going to get with conventional means whether it's
a balloon a helicopter or an aeroplane
Masten Ops to all 6 seconds to engine start...
so the Safe Precise Landing Integrated Capabilities Evolution project or SPLICE
is developing a family of sensors that are required to land safely and
precisely on the moon Mars and any other destination
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the testing on Rockets gets us even closer to that lunar landing like test
where we can get as close as we can to the actual lunar landing here on earth
allowing us to have additional confidence that our systems are going to
work when we actually go to the moon
Terrain Relative Navigation is a form of navigation in which you are able to
determine your state of the vehicle relative to the terrain itself so we're
able to identify features prelaunch based upon satellite maps lay them onto
the vehicle and then apply a camera on board which fits images we compare those
images to those and the maps pre-loaded it with their key identify features and
from that we we identify the features in the the images captured map them to the
satellite maps and then from that we can tell relative where we are to the
terrain so we can get altitude and whatnot relative to the terrain that
we're seeing so I think it's going to be critical for future flights on most of
the future missions that we're looking at are going to be pretty much
autonomous try to keep as much human interaction to its minimum so in order
to be able to navigate at the moon where we don't have GPS and ever very accurate
state information Terrain Relative Navigation is kind of your next
best navigation and it is kind of the next best thing that
we can we can go with so I think it's going to serve a critical part and
upcoming returning to the moon also as we move towards a sustained presence on
other bodies like the moon will need these precision landing capabilities in
order to deliver cargo nearby where we have our crude outposts