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> The idea of actively controlling a rover rather than having it perform pre-programmed routines seems highly desirable. Rover, probably (which I considered pa
by ptero 8y ago
> The idea of actively controlling a rover rather than having it perform pre-programmed routines seems highly desirable.
Rover, probably (which I considered payload functions). For delivery vehicle during passive parts of the trajectory the value is doubtful.
Plus, the standard way of getting a ground station outside a country's land footprint is to put one on a ship. That's what Soviet Union did and I suspect this is what China is doing now.
- Rooster61 8y ago> Plus, the standard way of getting a ground station outside a country's land footprint is to put one on a ship. Never heard of a ship based ground station, and that's saying something as I'm in the industry. How does that work? I'd imagine the antenna would need to be on a massive gimbal, yeah?
- genera1 8y agoFrom the top of my head there is Soviet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmonavt_Yuriy_Gagarin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmonavt_Yuriy_Gagarin In principle this isn't that different from ships designed to track ICBMs, and I've seen designs both with spinning parabolic radar antennas in radomes and regular antennas on gimbals. In fact many of those tracking ships were used in space programmes, but I'm not certain, whether just for one way telemetry or two-way comms