Space Robots

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A chronological review of space robots highlighting specific successes and failures: Luna 17’s Lunokhod drove ~10 km and its retroreflector is still used for laser ranging; a Viking lander was disabled by a battery-management update that overwrote antenna-pointing tables; Mars Climate Orbiter was lost after a contractor used pound-force instead of Newtons; Ingenuity exceeded its planned 5 test flights to complete 72 over almost three years before a hard landing; and the Voyager probes operated on ~70 KB of memory and were remotely patched after cosmic-ray memory corruption at ~24 billion km to restore instruments.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:05First space robot
3. 3:36First Soviet lunar rover
4. 8:09Mars exploration with Viking
5. 15:11Viking lander discoveries
6. 18:47Computer bugs in space
7. 20:11Mars Climate Orbiter mission
8. 25:03Ingenuity helicopter on Mars
9. 28:13Cassini mission and Titan
10. 31:42Robots on the ISS
11. 35:15Humanoid robots in orbit
12. 37:25Lunar projects and bases
13. 39:33Voyager mission repairs