What's Ahead in Aerospace and Defense: JPL hoping to demonstrate 'pinpoint landing' on Mars by 2011
PINPOINT LANDING: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Mars Technology Program (MTP) is working on a suite of technologies to enable "pinpoint landing" on the Red Planet to an accuracy of 100 meters (328 feet), according to Samad Hayati, chief technologist for the Mars exploration directorate at...
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