[WIP] Curiosity Rover

[darkwolfpaw54]

At the nasa openhouse I found out the rover was NERVA powered so it never need the sun it can do night missions and day missions. o yea i almost forgot the names for the contest! theres a gold plate with names for the contest (even mine :3) im thinking of having like joe kerman and dingly kerman. mostly random names lol. EDIT: o nerva is already there >.<

Edited September 30, 2012 by darkwolfpaw54

[LaydeeDem]

At the nasa openhouse I found out the rover was NERVA powered so it never need the sun it can do night missions and day missions. o yea i almost forgot the names for the contest! theres a gold plate with names for the contest (even mine :3) im thinking of having like joe kerman and dingly kerman. mostly random names lol. EDIT: o nerva is already there >.<

Putting a rocket engine on a rover is not a good idea. I think you confused your terms there. Curiosity is nuclear powered though, and the Voyager and Cassini also use nuclear reactors.

[darkwolfpaw54]

yea that is my point... >.< (dang brother is asking me to get to the mun >.< hes no rocketeter at all!)

[ashrutoraman]

All cameras will be useable.

Yea, I'm gonna try and test that today.

Edit: Tested idea for the arm, it works perfectly. Even with a camera stuck to it.

cool are you using different/manipulated hinges rotatrons for it? if so, can you release them stand alone also? wich is gonna be too handy and i realy wonder how it is can you put some screenshots?

[The Stinger]

It's a small disc which acts like a rotatron.

I'll see if I can make some screenshots when I'm done with giving the arm a texture.

[Aescwulf]

Here's a question does it include the sky crane?

[The Stinger]

Maybe not in the first release, but it will have the following:

- Skycrane

- Cruise-stage shell

- Heatshield with deployable balance devices

- Parachute

I have no idea how to tackle the crane part yet, ideas are welcome.

Edited October 2, 2012 by The Stinger

[Aescwulf]

Possibly by magic extendable struts that fall at a certain speed?

[ashrutoraman]

you may make it compatible with LH prometeus Skycrane parts with some little edit and rescale.

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/showthread.php/12106-0-17-Lionhead-Aerospace-Inc-Rover-v4-1-1-New-update-28-09

still its cable not extending and just static.... but structure and design is very cool

Edited October 2, 2012 by ashrutoraman

[The Stinger]

LH made great skycrane model(and rover), but like you said it's too bad that the cable doesn't extend.

Still something to think about.

Tested a laser system today, which works good.

I also added the "hand" and some antennas.

[phoenix_ca]

Putting a rocket engine on a rover is not a good idea. I think you confused your terms there. Curiosity is nuclear powered though, and the Voyager and Cassini also use nuclear reactors.

Eek. I feel the need to correct this. They don't really use nuclear reactors (most certainly not in the most common terrestrial sense where uranium is dunked in water which reacts violently and produces steam; that heat is used to drive a turbine). They use pellets of fissile material, typically enriched plutonium-238. Those pellets produce heat constantly, and are surrounded by thermocouples, which generate a constant flow of power as a result. It's the same type of device that produces voltage in a digital thermometer (though there's a bit of clever engineering done there to provide consistent and accurate results).

The actual term for these power sources is radioisotope thermoelectric generator.

[Aescwulf]

Or with the sky crane you could just add landing legs on it so it lands and drops the rover off then you get to take off and crash the crane or you could then use it as a hub base for it?

[Shadoworgon]

i dont know if this idea has been thought of yet (if it has sorry ) but to get the Skycrane cable to work, could you make the cable animated like a landing leg? Where when you hit 'g' the cable starts to drop the rover down? and have say a small decoupler on the rover to detach the 'cable' ?

dont know if this is possible but it was something i just thought of sorry if it doesnt help lol

[The Stinger]

Good idea, but the question is would it push the decoupler too, or will it go through it.

[gta-man]

Heh, i was thinking about making the Curiosity too, but i'm a 3d noob.

Yours looks nice, good luck! Can't wait to try it out.

[darkwolfpaw54]

now the last step of all (well some) TEXTURES!

[The Stinger]

Well, almost. Just need to add a few cameras and polishing the rest of the model.

[The Stinger]

"Done" with modelling, now it's time for some texture.

[ashrutoraman]

Looking cool pls use hi res

[darkwolfpaw54]

I can't belive how fast this was!

We are so close to finishing this!

[phoenix_ca]

When this is done, I'm landing it on Duna.

And then I'm gonna shoot rocks with the laser. No, I don't care if I have to imagine I'm shooting rocks with the laser. LASER!! PEWPEW!! *ahem*

[The Stinger]

You'll be able to shoot lasers, though it wont destroy anything.

[tjitte]

wow NICE

make the laser a range finder, just so it has a purpose

(and don't name it curiosity, because ksp is a game that shows similarity's whit the real world but all of the names are divergent)

[The Stinger]

About the name, you're right, maybe it should be named something else.

Anyone have any ideas? I could just call it curious...

I'm done UV mapping the body. One down, many to go.

[Aescwulf]

You could keep it as Curiosity but change the spelling to Kuriosity ?