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ExoMars rover demonstrator
imipak
post May 15 2008, 11:57 AM
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The BBC has a story on the new ExoMars rover technology demonstrator. "The MDA prototype can be viewed much like a car without its body. What you see in these pictures from a recent test session is essentially an undercarriage" -- which is good, because it's clearly not designed to look good wink.gif


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- imipak   ExoMars rover demonstrator   May 15 2008, 11:57 AM
- - climber   Full in-line quote removed. We'll have to set...   May 15 2008, 12:12 PM
- - jamescanvin   Your link seems to be broken, try: http://news.bb...   May 15 2008, 01:27 PM
- - climber   Wouah! I first though it was HUGE... until I s...   May 15 2008, 01:55 PM
- - elakdawalla   Is this essentially equivalent to the "scarec...   May 15 2008, 03:39 PM
- - djellison   Yeah - there's another one the same called Bri...   May 15 2008, 04:52 PM
- - lyford   Curious that the wheels are joined to the axels on...   May 15 2008, 08:04 PM
- - peter59   ESA to Delay Mars Rover Mission http://www.space....   Oct 17 2008, 06:27 PM
|- - gpurcell   I've got a very bad feeling about this delay.....   Oct 17 2008, 07:46 PM
- - Stu   I just have a gut feeling this rover will never re...   Oct 17 2008, 08:47 PM
- - djellison   Totally agree. It's as far off now as it was ...   Oct 17 2008, 09:04 PM
- - imipak   From the article it seems that the problem is budg...   Oct 17 2008, 10:26 PM
|- - mars loon   sadly, I also agree that with this new delay, the ...   Oct 18 2008, 04:34 PM
- - PhilCo126   Indeed delayed by 2 years... nothing yet on the ES...   Oct 20 2008, 11:41 AM
- - Mariner9   This also comes shortly after the other large plan...   Oct 21 2008, 03:54 PM
- - konangrit   ExoMars isn't being funded by the European Uni...   Oct 23 2008, 01:24 PM
- - djellison   And Politics are not being discussed at UMSF.   Oct 23 2008, 01:55 PM
- - Mariner9   Sorry about calling it the European Union. It w...   Oct 23 2008, 06:29 PM


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