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willpittenger
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I saw this the page http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/sc_cruise.html: "Mars Science Laboratory would use the stars to navigate. An onboard star scanner would keep the cruise stage on track by constantly monitoring its position relative to stars in our Milky Way galaxy."<br /><br />Did the Deep Space 1 navigation system finally reach production space craft? If so, should something like what killed Mars Climate Orbiter (failed when we entered bad data) happen again, I would expect MSL to adjust course to fix the problem on its own. It would "learn". <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Will Pittenger<hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Add this user box to your Wikipedia User Page to show your support for the SDC forums: <div style="margin-left:1em">{{User:Will Pittenger/User Boxes/Space.com Account}}</div> </div>