25 – Building a Rover (feat. Abbie Hutty)
Airbus' Abbie Hutty joins Jake to talk about the process to design, build and test a rover like ExoMars.
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Show Notes
Europe’s ExoMars program has already kicked off with the Trace Gas Orbiter, currently manoeuvring downward to its final science orbit. But ExoMars is not limited to a single mission. By 2020, ESA hopes to launch the first European rover to the Red Planet. Abbie Hutty, a Lead Spacecraft Structures Engineer, comes on to talk about what it takes to design, test and build a rover chassis, from wheels to mast, and what this rover means in the broader view of Mars exploration and international cooperation.
Links
- Abbie’s Twitter Account
- ESA’s ExoMars 2020 Mission Overview (check sidebar for more)
- Animation showing surface operations
- An older test showing the flexible metal wheels of ExoMars
- The opening of the Mars Yard at Stevenage, featuring Abbie herself
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