Wolf Lunar Rover

A NEW ERA IN PLANETARY SURFACE EXPLORATION

Orion Technologies’ newest addition to their surface exploration vehicle fleet: the Wolf Lunar Rover. Our first lunar rover, the Fox Moon Rover, was a technology testbed. Wolf, is the next step. It will be the most technologically advanced roving vehicle ever sent to the Moon. We have plans to land and operate Wolf Rovers on nearly every planetary surface, including Mars in the near future*. The first Wolf Rover, whose name is still under consideration, will fly on Phoenix OT-2, launching NET May.

DESIGN AND CAPABILITIES OVERVIEW

The Wolf Lunar Rover is a major leap forward in surface exploration technology. It is Orion Technologies’ second rover and their most advanced yet. The vehicle itself consists of a 35lbs, carbon-composite frame, autonomous lunar rover. Each vehicle has a pair of navigation cameras, and 4 rugged, titanium wheels. The onboard computers are capable of assessing obstacles, finding paths around them, and the gathering of samples or data. The rover has two of our K-Band Neuron Receivers(large white antennas) for communication to the lander that deployed it. Additionally, with the purpose of exploring the South Pole-Aiken Basin of the Moon, each vehicle has powerful LED lights for illuminating PSRs(Permanently Shadowed Regions) and side-mounted solar panels for harvesting sunlight from the horizon. The Wolf Rover is capable of deployment from basically any lander into any region of the Moon. It can carry 15lbs of instruments, and can even return lunar soil samples to an lander for analysis. Each Phoenix Lander can deploy 1 Wolf Rover(technically 2 if there were no other payloads), and the rover will be deployed in a similar manner to that of the MAPP rover from IM-2.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE

AG6 to activate wheels
AG7 to deploy antennas
AG10 for lights

Pitch for forward/backward motion, yaw for brakes and steering. The rover is basically unflippable, but still don’t be too aggressive in stopping or accelerating. It it does flip, just apply brake or speed as necessary. There is a 4K camera onboard and a Stereo Camera for navigation.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to @TheQiQi’s JNO Toolset for the logo.
Thanks to @RadTimony for the LED Lights.
Credit to Lunar Outpost for design inspiration.

If you find anything off-nominal with the rover, notify m and I’ll try and fix it a soon as possible!

Feel free to use this rover on any of your posts, you don’t have to mention me. But do notify me of your post please.

*A Wolf Rover will be the main payload on our first Valkyrie Mars Lander, making it the first commercial Mars rover ever.

ENJOY, AND DARE TO EXPLORE!