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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Stackup graphic.
This stack includes the interstages, lander and rover. Height from payload adapter to the tip of the fairing is about 15 feet.
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Unrolling stackup graphic
This is the unrolling of a full-scale graphic of the stackup. Height from payload adapter to the tip of the fairing is about 15 feet.
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PITTSBURGH — (Feb. 25, 2009) — Small robots the size of riding mowers could prepare a safe landing site for NASA’s Moon outpost, according to a NASA-sponsored study prepared by Astrobotic Technology Inc. with technical assistance from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. Astrobotic Technology and Carnegie Mellon researchers analyzed mission requirements and developed the design… {read more}
Red Whittaker’s rovers have already gone where no robot has gone before. Will one of them make it to the moon? By Geoffrey Little Air & Space Magazine, January 01, 2009 The scraping of metal wheels on loose rocks and the clicking sounds of mechanical actuators alert me to the lunar rover’s presence before I… {read more}
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Interstage Analysis
This interstage and its injection engine are separated and discarded after the injection burn.
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| From AstroboticBlogPhotos |
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Rover Thermal Analysis
The spherical bumps are thermal analysis nodes. Analyses with finer meshes yield higher fidelity results and consider details like those atop the mast.
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