In designing spacecraft to transport one particular payload (robot roving vehicle) to moon, it was found advantageous to make spacecraft self-sufficient, i.e., able to land on moon without aid from its payload; with this self-sufficiency, spacecraft became general purpose truck that could support first lunar explorers and later supply manned lunar bases; chief criteria for design are that landing maneuver be simple, that safe landing can be made despite small errors in maneuver, and that payload can be unloaded with mechanical aids.
Supply truck to moon
Progress Astronautics Aeronautics
1963
30 pages
Article (Journal)
English
© Metadata Copyright Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
AIAA | 1963
|Engineering truck power supply system, engineering truck and power supply control method
European Patent Office | 2022
|Rail concrete mixer truck powered by power supply outside truck
European Patent Office | 2024
|Power supply system for electric heavy truck and electric heavy truck
European Patent Office | 2022
|