Re: Microrovers

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 20:37

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In article <12551336688.32.KLH@NIC.DDN.MIL> KLH@NIC.DDN.MIL (Ken Harrenstien) writes:
>... It would
>be nice if someone familiar with these areas of research could post
>additional details...

Check out the October issue -- I think it was October -- of the Journal
of the British Interplanetary Society (any good technical library should
have this).  It's a special issue on small spacecraft and the like, with
technical papers on a variety of schemes (including several from JPL and
one from the MIT microrover people).

The main problem with microrovers is that they are a research topic, not
a well-understood technology.  That will change, possibly soon enough to
be of immediate relevance.  (At the glacial pace of US mission planning,
change "possibly" to "probably"... :-( )
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1755 EST, Dec 14, 1972:  human |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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Subject: Re: Microrovers
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