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This Mistake in Elementary Physics Costs Billions to Space Exploration!

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A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison reveals that the global space agencies, including NASA and the Chinese Space Administration, have fundamentally misunderstood the physics of other celestial bodies when designing their rovers. This major methodological error would explain why so many landing missions still fail today. The study, published in [...]
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A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison reveals that the global space agencies, including NASA and the Chinese Space Administration, have fundamentally misunderstood the physics of other celestial bodies when designing their rovers. This major methodological error would explain why so many landing missions still fail today. The study, published in [...]

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SciencePost broke the news in on Friday, August 15, 2025.
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