Want an Extreme Engineering Ride? Follow maxon to the Moon and Mars
Flying to Mars and navigating a martian environment is not easy. Successful space missions rely on every component executing numerous mission-critical tasks while concurrently withstanding the harshest of conditions. With the highest priority placed on drives, designing space-ready motors is a meticulous and complex process. Engineers need to account for extreme temperature fluctuations that persist for days at a time while operating during drastic changes in atmospheric conditions where rotor blades cut through significantly fewer air molecules than in Earth's atmosphere, simply to maintain ...