Comments on: How to build a scaled-down version of Curiosity, all by yourself! https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/how-to-build-a-scaled-down-version-of-curiosity-all-by-yourself/ Tue, 07 Aug 2018 02:55:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/how-to-build-a-scaled-down-version-of-curiosity-all-by-yourself/#comment-1057093 Tue, 07 Aug 2018 02:55:06 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52992#comment-1057093 I was looking at another car, but . . .

]]> By: Zed_WEASEL https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/how-to-build-a-scaled-down-version-of-curiosity-all-by-yourself/#comment-1057087 Tue, 07 Aug 2018 02:05:19 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52992#comment-1057087 Just the little problem of adequate power to propel a large rover on Mars. Presuming you cannot acquired a RTG unit with Pu238.

Also until the folks from Hawthorne starts their Martian excursions. There is the maximum limit of about 900 kg for a lander and rover combo landing on Mars. Due to current NASA’s current Mars Entry, Descend & Landing method of aerobraking, supersonic parachute & whatever terminal deceleration option.

So even the Falcon 9 or most Atlas V variants is over-qualified for sending a rover to the surface of Mars with the current NASA EDL method which requires a payload capacity of about 2.5 tonnes.

]]> By: Localfluff https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/how-to-build-a-scaled-down-version-of-curiosity-all-by-yourself/#comment-1057067 Mon, 06 Aug 2018 17:36:06 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52992#comment-1057067 I wonder if it would have that laser zapping spectrometer. Off the shelf. I hope it works on my Wifi so I don’t need a 30 meter diameter radio dish to communicate with it.

]]> By: Col Beausabre https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/how-to-build-a-scaled-down-version-of-curiosity-all-by-yourself/#comment-1057066 Mon, 06 Aug 2018 17:34:24 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52992#comment-1057066 “I wonder how heavy a home-built rover would be, and whether it could be launched on a Falcon Heavy to Mars.”

That’s just what I was think as I read the article, “Why limit it to Earth?”

And not just Mars, why not Luna?

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