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Something tells me that they wont be on your robot then. lol
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It is nothing to laugh about. All our engineers are on the MER project at JPL. We won't have nearly as much help from them this time around with the launch in June.
Our 5 engineers have all been doing some cool stuff like the gearboxes, solar panels, electrical, testing, etc. with the rover. The guy who designed the wheels actually showed me his CAD drawing on his JPL laptop before they were made. One of our engineers will be away at the launch site for flight systems stuff so we won't see him during the season.
I'm pretty sure those are the ones. The "spokes" are designed to torsionally flex in the circular pattern to have some "give" on the tread surface.
Sorry I got a bit off topic but it is such a cool machine. As for the name, I'm blank.
