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To be fair; there may be COTS Mars rovers for sale (possibly even cheap), they're just not certified or engineered specifically for Mars. Even an RC car might l
by r2_pilot 3y ago
To be fair; there may be COTS Mars rovers for sale (possibly even cheap), they're just not certified or engineered specifically for Mars. Even an RC car might last long enough for a mission if it was free to get there.
- amluto 3y agoSometimes I wonder whether something like the SpaceX approach would work for these sorts of mission: develop a way to cheaply and reproducibly build the mission hardware, then iterate on it until it works.