National Aeronautics and space administration (NASA) manages the Mars Curiosity Rover at home because of the pandemic coronavirus. The first experience of carrying out remote control of the Rover from the control center of NASA was held March 20. Two days later, as planned, the team went to the Rover, and he drilled the crack through rocky breed in a place called "Edinburgh".
management Team at Rover in the end realized that they will have to go to work remotely at least a few weeks, which forced them to rethink the principles of the continuation of the mission. Now they use conventional equipment from offices at home, where they brought monitors, headsets and other equipment. Also they need to maintain contact with scientists around the world, to understand where further to send the Rover. According to team leader Alicia Olbo, it monitors over 15 chat to be aware of all the events: "Mars is not place, we still examine it."
"Usually, we are all in one big room where they share images and data. People work separately on their respective teams, and I control the process itself. Now we have replaced this video, now I need to control spending nearly 15 separate calls. But even in such conditions we have found a way out of the situation," says Kerry bridge, head of scientific operations of NASA.
In late March, the leadership of NASA has announced the suspension of two of its centers due to pandemic COVID-19. In these centres, the development and Assembly of so-called Space Launch System — heavy carrier rocket for manned launches and spacecraft "Orion".
Previously coalsalesthat the American company Orbital Sciences Corporation, part of Northrop Grumman Corporation (NG, which commissioned the National aerospace Agency (NASA) twice a year, delivers cargo to the International space station (ISS) was taken from Ukraine employees of the Dnepropetrovsk KB "southern" to prevent disruption of the preparation of the next mission.
In the USA, over 600 thousand cases of coronavirus, and more than 26 thousand dead. Globally, more than 2 million confirmed cases COVID-19, 127 thousand people died, more than 480 thousand recovered.
