The Burgesson wants to move beyond the Earth, which is pursuing some beautiful radical concepts for one of the wheels designed to cross the moon. Its latest creations look like entering your hand -caught kitchen helicopter, but they are designed to support small and medium -sized lunar rover.
Only the second generation is called lunar rover tires, they are completely made of steel. The reason for this is that rubber does not really work in tough lunar conditions. It is highly sensitive to extreme temperatures and ultra violet rays, which is found in large quantities on the moon. Even if the rubber compound is not damaged, it will be very heavy and complicated. In addition, the use of air -filled tires in the vicomes near the space is not much better, so you will need tire anyway.
The solution to the Burgegestone is to make metal tires with “trade” on the outside and flexible auxiliary structures mainly act as a wheel. The concept of the bottom left is designed for small rover, which has a low weight, so the low number of the spokesperson. The purpose of the tire on the right is the medium -sized rover that can rotate in the roder region. Bergestone says it balances weight and with stability and copy.
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Burgestone small lunar rover tire concept
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The concept of the Burgestone Medium Lunar Rover Tire
These designs are like the second -generation lunar tires Bergestone, which was shown in 2024, including a flexible internal structure, but used steel wool mesh for trade signed in rectangular pads. All these years ago, the company’s first -generation tires were radically different, which looked like a tire that had the spring structure of a fully connected coil. Even it had a cool internal wheel that did not appear in cars and coffee.
Burgestone will display its latest space tire at the 40th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, which continues since April 7-10. The company will be in hand as part of the Japan Space Industry display.
