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Rover technology for manned mars missions
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Klein, Gail |
| Copyright Year | 1986 |
| Description | A set of roving vehicle design requirements were postulated, corresponding to an idealized Mars transport vehicle operational scenario which could serve as a reference for a manned Mars mission. The ability of conventional vehicles to satisfy these requirements were examined. The study indicated that no conventional vehicle could satisfy all of the requirements, as the vehicles are presently configured. Consequently, the requirements have to either be relaxed and/or an alternative, less conventional vehicle design will have to be developed. A possible unconventional vehicle design which has received considerable attention for DARPA and the Army is the walker vehicle. The design issues associated with this vehicle are presented, along with a comparison of the performance capabilities of this technology vs. conventional vehicle technology. |
| File Size | 478294 |
| Page Count | 13 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19870008324 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t9f52jp68 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1986-05-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Spacecraft Design, Testing and Performance Manned Mars Missions Research Vehicles Mission Planning Mars Surface Walking Machines Mars Landing Robots Roving Vehicles Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
