New spaceship - Exploration Lander
-
Finally over my mental block with the landing gear. This is just roughed in, but the general idea.
More detail to come.
-
Have you shown it to Elon
It looks like
It is built with the same manufacturing technology as his pickup trucks
-
@l i am said:
Have you shown it to Elon
It looks like
It is built with the same manufacturing technology as his pickup trucks
-
Hi Bryan, you may be aware but the cyber truck is really interesting from many standpoints, but the method of manufacture is genius. The body is made of the same alloy they invented as fuel tanks on the spacex starships. However the metal is so strong it cannot be formed by conventional metal pressing/forming. The metal is laser cut partially through in a straight line. The Panel is then bent using a guillotine press to bend the metal at the laser treated line. Thats why the panels are so flat.
Why it is genius?
1, The "body" is so rigid it does not need a conventional chassis as the body is the structure (and VERY rigid)2, tooling costs of say a Ford f350 is in access of 30 million.........tooling cost of cyber truck about a 20th of that.......................GENIUS
So theroetically,conceptually, Bryan, your design may be a new generarion of spacecraft
-
I find the design of the cybertruck anything but lazy.
-
Although the engineering is cool, I find the truck ugly and a very lazy design. If it were almost anything other than a truck, it might be cool. Like say, a boat.
This is a cool concept truck. I may try to model something like this next.
My design is really nothing new. The squared off cone is quite common for the very reason you state: it's a robust, economical design.
This one actually flew.
Here's a variation concept.
There are a couple of others, so what I'm making is nothing new, just a variation on a sound engineering design.
But thanks for the compliment!
-
-
Tightening up the gear design.
-
Gear update.
-
Overview to date.
-
Leaps and bound mate, leaps and bounds ahead.
-
Thanks Mike.
-
More landing gear and bay details.
-
Color changes.
-
A little more gear detail.
-
More roughing out of the crew space. Very rough. Mostly just getting the scale for now.
-
Looking good, mate. Do you have any idea for a lifting mechanism to get people and kit on the surface?
-
Thanks Mike.
Yeah, working on both central elevator and external hatch that flip up with extending frame elevator ideas.
-
Rough-out of the internal elevator placement and scale.
-
Redesigned RCS controls.
Advertisement