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Request: AREE probe


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The Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments, or AREE for short, is a proposed solution by NASA for getting a durable rover on Venus. Given the harsh environment of Venus, all the successful missions that landed on Venus only lasted anywhere from 1-2 days to only less than an hour. The AREE rover would fix that by being built with durable but unconventional, and to an extent outdated, technologies. The build of the AREE rover would be mostly mechanical with few electronic components; making it able to withstand the intense atmospheric pressure and temperature of Venus. So, to emulate that in KSP, I would like to request for someone to make an AREE-esque probe core. I'm not quite certain how it should be done, but it would most likely be either:

A) a probe with an electric generator that works by converting intakeAir into electric charge

or, most likely,

B) a probe that's powered solely by intakeAir

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1 hour ago, FreeThinker said:

If this Automaton is not going to have any electronic, how is going to transmit it collected data? Make dance which can be observed from space?

Well, according to the article I read, the AREE rover would have electronics, but they'd be simple components instead of the sophisticated hardware rovers like Curiosity contain. As for communication, they proposed using a reflector to bounce radar signals back to a main orbiter, using Morse code to transmit data.

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