“The hopping penguin is an interesting concept. Jumping a mile means that crater edges, like the ones that cause problems for the Mars rovers, are not a big issue.”
“Those were a tense few minutes while we waited for the first signals back. When it came through, there were a lot of cheers and shaking of hands. We will start to point it towards earth and deploy the solar panels to power it.”
“Trying to dock with a working spacecraft in the operational GEO belt could potentially create debris right there. This would endanger every GEO satellite.”
