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by jvanderbot
878 days ago
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Here's a paper that describes what the next gen could/should be. The lead author is the head of Mars heli, IIRC. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9843501 In short: 30kg heli, 5kg payloads. Other designs by collaborators are closer to 20kg. It's probably possible to transport a few of these on the existing lander technology, which would be awesome. The scholar.google.com keywords you want are "Mars Science Helicopter" and a good touchpoint author is T. Tzanetos or S. Withrow-Maser Ames and JPL were still collaborating on this when I worked there. |
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