Marsokhod, Some Russian work on Mars rovers |
Marsokhod, Some Russian work on Mars rovers |
Guest_DonPMitchell_* |
May 31 2006, 03:57 AM
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You may have seen these before, but here are a few Marsokhod rover designed developed and tested by TransMASH. First is a concept developed for a Mars-94 mission. Note the radioisotope thermopile generator on the back.
[attachment=5964:attachment] They also experimented with walking rovers, and with hybrid concepts that included wheels on articulated axles: [attachment=5965:attachment] [attachment=5966:attachment] [attachment=5967:attachment] In 1999, TransMASH worked with NASA on a Mars rover, a blend of Marsokhod and some American concepts clearly. Looks similar to the ExoMars rover, I think. [attachment=5968:attachment] |
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Guest_BruceMoomaw_* |
May 31 2006, 05:57 AM
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"Pele" -- one of the proposals for the first Discovery AO, proposed by G. Jeffrey Taylor of the U. of Hawaii -- would have landed a Marsokhod on the Moon to check out the relatively recent volcanic terrain at Aristarchus.
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Jun 3 2006, 08:36 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Here's a Marsokhod for you - from the 2002 cover of the Russian Popular Mechanics:
http://epizodsspace.testpilot.ru/bibl/oblo...ech-2002-12.jpg Now that's how you land on a planet! None of these wussy beach balls bouncing around! -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jun 4 2006, 12:51 AM
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Dublin Correspondent Group: Admin Posts: 1799 Joined: 28-March 05 From: Celbridge, Ireland Member No.: 220 |
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Guest_BruceMoomaw_* |
Jun 4 2006, 01:46 AM
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Actually, one of the selling points for Marsokhod was always that you could land it using airbags, because its design enabled it to be curled up like a millipede. (That same active body flexibility, using motorized joints between its body sections, would have been used to give it much greater ability to clamber over obstacles.)
I've always regretted that the Russians ran out of cash before they could do anything with this design -- if and when they get back into the space exploration biz, I still think that the Marsokhod design may end up being useful. |
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Guest_Zvezdichko_* |
Jan 14 2007, 12:45 PM
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I'm sorry for digging up this old thread, but I have to say something about Russian rover attempts.
The Russians were first in putting a rover on Mars. Indeed, Mars 3 carried a small rover, named PROP-M. It was designed to communicate directly with the lander with a simple cable. And it was not a wheeled rover, it had a skiing system. The rest you know - the lander failed 20 seconds after landing and the rover couldn't achieve its goals. |
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Jan 14 2007, 02:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 117 Joined: 7-December 06 From: Sheffield UK Member No.: 1462 |
You're right of course. It was a brilliantly ambitious piece of kit:
http://www.planetary.org/mars/tpr_rover-rus_first-rover.html I suppose its too much to hope that future HiRISE images will show the little rover (or should that be skier) a few meters from the lander much like Sojourner and Pathfinder. If the Mars 3 rover did make it onto the surface, presumably it would have reached the end of its tether. Much like the Soviet scientists in Mars program at the time when both their potentially brilliant landers failed. -------------------- It's a funny old world - A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive. - W.C. Fields.
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