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Planetary Prospecting Rover / Interactive teardown & kinematics lab
A planetary rover is a mobile laboratory with an unusually demanding job. It must travel over uncertain ground, carry sensitive scientific instruments, survive dust and temperature changes, and perform meaningful measurements without a human mechanic standing beside it. REGOLITH R6 is an original, fictional planetary prospecting rover built to help you examine those challenges. Instead of presenting a static image of a futuristic machine, this interactive 3D engineering laboratory allows you to examine its individual parts, take them away from their mounting positions, and put them back together.
The model contains 122 selectable components organised into seven systems: Structure, Mobility, Power, Solar, Sensors, Sample arm and Thermal. Each component has a name, material, assembly connection and short mechanical description. You can inspect a chassis rail, isolate the wheel drive units, investigate the stereo camera mast or look beneath the top deck. The goal is to make a complex machine understandable through direct manipulation.
REGOLITH R6 is a speculative educational design, not a real mission or certified aerospace product. Measurements and electrical values are illustrative. Its engineering ideas, however, draw upon familiar principles: six independently driven wheels, articulated suspension links, electric actuators, stereo imaging, power distribution and a powered sampling tool. These principles are useful whether you are beginning to study mechanisms or already work with 3D models.
This is an educational, illustrative model of a fictional product: part names, masses, materials and operating figures are simplified and are not a manufacturer's drawing, a design basis or a safety/acceptance document.