More rovers on Mars
In 2020 the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA will send their rovers to Mars. Here’s a comparison of the two machines.
Both rovers are being deployed to Mars in June/July 2020 to looks for signs of life and take soil samples.
Maxon DC motors feature in both the rovers and here we take a look at the difference between the two rovers.
NASA Mars 2020 Mission start: June/July 2020 aboard Rocket Atlas V-541.
There are nine maxon DC brushless motor and drive systems that help collect the soil samples. The EC 32 flat and EC 20 flat motors fitted with planetary gearhead and customised in commission with NASA/ JPL.
ESA ExoMars Mission start: June/July 2020 aboard Rocket Proton.
More than 50 actuators from maxon assist with the wheel drive, sample distribution and camera movements. There are 17 different configurations of brushed and brushless DC motors including the DCX 10, DCX 22 and EC 40 combined with gearheads, brakes and encoders.
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