Timeline for What's the realistic top speed for a manned lunar rover of the future along the lines of the one that Toyota is designing for JAXA?
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| Oct 13, 2020 at 9:47 | answer | added | CourageousPotato | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 1, 2020 at 18:02 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | OK, well, since there's no air resistance, so long as you stay at a constant altitude, or to be exact an iso-gravity line, you can hit any speed you want so long as the drive train can support the RPMs. That's simple physics: keep applying torque, you keep accelerating. | |
| Oct 1, 2020 at 17:01 | comment | added | Arbutus | @CarlWitthoft Top speed isn't irrelevant to me. It's specifically what I'm asking about. I agree with the rest of what you said. | |
| Oct 1, 2020 at 11:48 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | Top speed is irrelevant. How fast you can brake matters. Although given the uneven terrain, I suppose you might not want to achieve a speed at which a good-sized rock would deflect you into orbit | |
| Sep 30, 2020 at 6:16 | comment | added | uhoh | much faster for Interplanetary Superhighway driving than for local runs | |
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| Sep 29, 2020 at 18:38 | history | asked | Arbutus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |