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Hi all! I am a field research engineer at JPL for the MISR project of the Earth Observation System. Our URL is: www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov. I have been involved with our project's outreach effort for some years and came up with an idea of using Legos to (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Cool! Actually, I'm surprised NASA diddn't do this with sojurner back in 96. (...) This probably means gluing the non-moving parts together. That is how all of the "official" models like store displays are built. (...) For most of us this is a (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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Wow! that's quick! (...) Actually, I would not know. JPL is one of many NASA centers, and there are 6000 employees at JPL with hundreds of projects and no chat rooms like this, to be sure. Legos have been used to build rovers and stuff for kids as (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Are you talking about modeling the MISR Terra Spacecraft out of Lego? (...) Unless the scale is really out of control, I would guess that it could be done pretty cheaply - unless you wanted to motorize it and use Mindstorms. (...) I would (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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Hello Mark; Building a LEGO model of this satellite sounds like an excellent project. Some thoughts on the ongoing discussion: (...) My brother-in-law happens to own Alberta Industrial Models. A $10K estimate would not be out of line, depending on (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) MISR is one of 5 instruments bolted onto the Terra platform. I am interested only in a model of what's under MISR's radiation shielding, and at that, only certian parts. Check out www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov and navigate to the EOS site for a more (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) One exists with most of the generic technic parts but there are large gaps when it comes to some of the specialest parts. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) when it (...) Suspected as much. Have downloaded MLCAD & am fiddling. Have also been given many other leads. Thanks, all - will keep U informed of progress. LugNet is 2 cool! Thanks, Jonathan. - Mark. (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.build)
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