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#1 2021-09-25 03:18:13
- Tmcom
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China is Copying NASA's, Mars Drone
https://www.iflscience.com/space/china- … -familiar/
China has revealed plans for what it is calling a "Mars cruise drone", and it looks very familiar to another flying vehicle we all know and love traversing the skies of the Red Planet right now.
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#2 2021-09-25 17:15:30
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Re: China is Copying NASA's, Mars Drone
that would be a first
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#3 2021-09-25 21:09:35
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Re: China is Copying NASA's, Mars Drone
SpaceNut wrote:
that would be a first
And no doubt Russia has gone the cheap way, and bought a $2000 unit thrown it on top of a top secret Mars mission, rover, and hacked the software.
Flys for a good half hour, unless it hits a tree?
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