Second, the contracts are based on value and in many cases the local commissioning trusts have been able to switch work to fewer but more costly operations.
Both decisions reinforce trends that have been changing Wall Street in recent years: the switch from physical to electronic markets and the dispersal of operations away from lower Manhattan into the suburban areas of the greater New York metropolis and beyond.
It gives us basic capabilities for operating the rover on the surface, but we have planned all along to switch over after landing to a version of flight software that is really optimized for surface operations.