Questions tagged [lunar-rover]
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Can I borrow a lunar rover?
According to Wikipedia there are 3 LRVs sitting on the moon, in very well defined locations. Would China, or whomever gets to the moon with a person next, be able to get in and drive around in an LRV ...
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What was it actually like driving the Lunokhod lunar rovers live from the ground? What were some of the biggest challenges?
This answer to How (the heck) did Lunokhod 2 drive, navigate and survive a ~40 kilometer drive over four months on the Moon using 1970's technology? discusses some of the technologies that made this ...
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How (the heck) did Lunokhod 2 drive, navigate and survive a ~40 kilometer drive over four months on the Moon using 1970's technology?
Mashable.com's Every rover, ranked by distance traveled on the moon and Mars; The 13 rovers, ranked. calls attention to this amazing feat, and a review of basic statistics and discussions on odometry ...
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How did astronauts navigate the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) over the surface of the Moon?
The Lunar Roving Vechicle (LRV), also known as Moon Buggy, was used as a form of transportation on the surface of the Moon during the Apollo program.
What system did the astronauts use for ...
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Disc mounted on lunar rover?
My father told me of a story that while he was young working at an electronics company, they all signed a disc that was shrunk down and mounted to one of the lunar rovers. Does anyone know anything ...
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Lunar rover footage?
How many hours of publicly available footage is there of the lunar rover moving around? Youtube only has 2 min. I want more. Especially with rooster tail.
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What was NASA's “LUROVA” Operational Thermal Computer Model analog or digital? How were capacitors used?
@GremlinWrangler's answer links to
Apollo Rover Lessons Learned
Applying Experiences on the Apollo Lunar Rover Project to Rovers for Future Space Exploration
by Ronald A. Creel, Space and Thermal ...
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How was the Apollo lunar liftoff video transmitted to Earth?
There is video of the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 lunar modules lifting off from the Moon. I recall watching it live for Apollo 17 at least. I know the images were captured by a camera mounted on the lunar ...
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Was the Apollo lunar rover ever "airborne"?
The last three Apollo missions included a lunar roving vehicle. The picture below shows one driven with the front two wheels off the ground (a "wheelie").
A car that is "airborne" ...
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Official source discussing the stress that Lunokhod operators were experiencing?
I came across this document mentioning the high stress that the Lunokhod operators experienced when teleoperating the rovers back in the 1970s. There is a mention that driving Lunakhod 2 was ...
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Reasons why the Lunar Rover DID NOT become "a jumble of loosely assembled broken parts on Launch"?
A number of comments and some answers at the question Can I drive Elon Musk's Tesla in 100 Years? suggets the Tesla Roadster "would not survive launch... it would be a jumble of loosely assembled ...
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Other than Surveyor 3, were any landers within rover distance of Apollo?
Apollo 12 landed within walking distance of the unmanned Surveyor 3 lander, which had arrived on the moon 2 years earlier. The astronauts photographed and returned parts of Surveyor 3.
The last three ...
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