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Off-Nominal

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The Proton Vehicle

The vehicle pops up in the air, just like we just saw in the video. It has a lidar that maps the terrain and it tries to identify somewhere safe to land. Once it identifies the safe place, it flies in virtually to that location and then lands on it autonomously. Everything was autonomous. And we actually hid launch pads under the dirt because we didn't want it digging deep holes in the dirt and shitting rocks up at the vehicle.

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