Publication Date:
2016-06-07
Description:
Efforts to increase the cost effectiveness of future lunar and planetary rover missions have led to the mobile lander concept, which replaces the landing legs of a soft-lander craft with a compact mobility system of sufficient strength to withstand the landing impact. The results of a mobile lander conceptual design effort based on existing NASA-Viking '75 hardware are presented. The elastic loop concept, developed as a post-Apollo rover technology, is found to meet stringent stowage, traction, power and weight requirements.
Keywords:
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Type:
JPL 10th Aerospace Mech. Symp.; p 11-25
Format:
application/pdf
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