Mission pass

Can you trust what the spacecraft tells you?

A spacecraft cannot see itself. Everything it reports comes from instruments, and instruments are never perfect. Your team will fly the same manoeuvre twice, changing nothing except the quality of the instruments, and find out what that does to what the spacecraft knows about itself.

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Grades 9–10

If the instruments get worse, does the spacecraft get worse - or does it just stop knowing where it is?

  • My prediction
  • The truth-against-estimate comparison for both sets of instruments
  • Where each number came from
  • One thing this model does not cover

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