[FPSPACE] Venerakhod

[Paolo Ulivi]

Keith Gottschalk wrote:

>>>>most ambitious projects in solar system >exploration: a Venerakhod or Venus rover.
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>>I have found a mention to that project in a paper and >my sources in 
>>Russia confirm that two 50-100 kg prototypes were >built and tested in Kamchatka in 1984-1987
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>    The Kamchatka climate hardly seems the most realistic to test a Venus rover - unless you are crawling around a lively volcanic cone   :)
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Given the mass of the prototype, I think that it was a test of the 
transmission system and "cross country ability" of the Venerakhod, and 
that it did not include thermal protection etc.
Paolo