The U.S. “Trail” rover successfully landed on Mars, as the team members have two Taiwanese, so President Tsai Ing-wen today took to Facebook to share the good news with everyone, she stressed: “driving on Mars” driving, from Taiwan! Tsai Ing-wen mentioned that it is the engineer Yan Zheng who is responsible for controlling the car, as well as Liu Dengkai who participated in the design of the spacecraft.
The driver of “driving on Mars” is from Taiwan!
Central News Agency reported that recently the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA) “Perseverance” (Perseverance) rover successfully landed on Mars has attracted much international The Perseverance rover has attracted international attention. In the Perseverance science team, there are two Taiwanese involved, including the engineer in charge of controlling the vehicle, Yan Zheng, and the spacecraft design, Liu Dengkai.
In this regard, Tsai Ing-wen said through a Facebook post on the afternoon of the 21st, “driving on Mars” driving, from Taiwan!
The international news these days is that “the rover has successfully landed on Mars and embarked on a mission to find evidence of Life“, Tsai said. The Trailblazer also carries a small drone, which is the first Time humans have sent a drone to Mars.
Tsai stressed that the scientific team of the Trailblazer, with the participation of Taiwanese, like the team in charge of controlling the rover, was led by engineer Dr. Yan Zheng. “They programmed the commands on Earth to drive the Trailblazer on Mars from afar.”
Tsai re-emphasized that Dr. Teng-Kai Liu, who worked on the spacecraft’s design, is also from Taiwan. She said there are many Taiwanese serving in NASA and they are all proud of Taiwan. She also cited the example of “the first black hole photo obtained by the Taiwan team together the year before” and shouted with confidence: “Taiwan’s scientific strength can bring contributions to all of humanity.”
Tsai also did not forget to mention Taiwan’s space industry, she said, just this week, the Executive Yuan also proposed a draft space development law, “we will continue to make our own satellites, and more to connect with the international, to support the development of the space industry.” Tsai believes that young people who want to devote themselves to aerospace technology should be as unafraid of difficulties and failures as the Trailblazer, as Dr. Yen said. Finally, she assured that “Taiwan will not be absent from the process of human exploration of the unknown!”
The team involved in the “Trailblazer” is responsible for the control of Yan Zheng: grasp the impulse of life
Taiwanese-born engineer Yen Cheng of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is at the control center of the Mars Exploration Rover Trail Force, with the Mars 2020 mission logo in the back.
A Taiwanese-born engineer from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is at the control center of the Mars Exploration Rover Trail, with the Mars 2020 logo at the back. (Photo credit: Central News Agency)
Yen, 61, was raised in Taiwan. He lost both Parents at a young age and grew up in a nursery school. He worked his way up to Jianguo High School, Tsinghua University, and later studied in the United States and received his PhD in applied mathematics and mechanics from the University of Iowa. He has served at JPL for over 20 years and has been involved in four NASA Mars exploration programs since 2003. He leads the Robot Interfaces and Visualization group, which is responsible for controlling the vehicle.
The most important thing in life is to find a direction in life. For him, it was when NASA sent the Sojourner rover to Mars for the first time in 1997 that made him, who was teaching at the University of Minnesota at the time, think, “This is so cool, if I don’t do this, I will have regrets in life. “.
Yen encouraged the young people in Taiwan who want to devote themselves to aerospace technology to have the same spirit of not being afraid of difficulties and failures as the name of the “Perseverance”, and more importantly, to “grasp the impulse in life”.
Responsible for the design of the spacecraft “Perseverance” Liu Dengkai: the task is to answer whether there is life on Mars
Dr. Teng-Kai Liu, an electrician from Taiwan, serves at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and has participated in five Mars exploration missions since 1997, designing spacecraft electronics. (Photo credit: Central News Agency)
Another senior engineer with 30 years of service at JPL, Teng-Kai Liu, an electrical engineering expert, is responsible for the design of the spacecraft’s electronic systems, software and hardware integration. He has been involved in every Mars program since 1997.
In a video interview with the Central News Agency in Los Angeles on the 18th, he analyzed that the main task of Trail is to answer whether life once existed on Mars, and it will use robot arms to probe rocks to collect evidence of the existence of ancient microorganisms. In addition, will also carry to Mars another oxygen generator, the use of Martian gas to produce oxygen, in preparation for future human migration to Mars.
Trail is the largest and most advanced U.S. Mars exploration system to date, will be such a vehicle to Mars, is not a simple task, requiring the cooperation of many teams of scientists, the preparation time for each mission in the past are nearly 10 years.
After the rock samples are collected and stored in place, NASA is expected to send another spacecraft to Mars in 2030 to retrieve the samples. Liu Dengkai’s subsequent work is to participate in the sample retrieval program.
As for Trailblazer, another innovation is to carry an unmanned helicopter weighing 1.8 kg, which will fly on Mars for the first time. The propeller of the helicopter is specially designed and has been tested numerous times on Earth, so it will be a great achievement if it can take off on Mars.
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