The proposed vehicle, the Lunar Material Transport Vehicle (LMTV), has a mission objective of efficient lunar soil material transport. The LMTV was designed to meet a required set of performance specifications while operating under a given set of constraints. The LMTV is essentially an articulated steering, double-ended dump truck. The vehicle moves on four wheels and has two identical chassis halves. Each half consists of a chassis frame, a material bucket, two wheels with integral curvilinear synchronous motors, a fuel cell and battery arrangement, an electromechanically actuated dumping mechanism, and a powerful microprocessor. The vehicle, as designed, is capable of transporting up to 200 cu ft of material over a one mile round trip per hour. The LMTV is capable of being operated from a variety of sources. The vehicle has been designed as simply as possible with attention also given to secondary usage of components.


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    Title :

    Lunar Material Transport Vehicle


    Contributors:
    C. D. Fisher (author) / D. Lyons (author) / W. A. Wilkins (author) / H. C. Whitehead (author)

    Publication date :

    1988


    Size :

    96 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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