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The Curiosity team invented the sky crane system by studying old Viking landing system—its engines are "an upgraded 'reinvention' of Viking’s throttleable engines"—and landing experience from previous rovers. [5] The sky crane works much like a helicopter, and the team even consulted with Sikorsky Skycrane helicopter engineers and pilots. [9]
Originally a Sikorsky Aircraft product, the type certificate and manufacturing rights were purchased from them by Erickson Air-Crane in 1992. Since that time, Erickson Air-Crane has become the manufacturer and world's largest operator of S-64 Aircranes and has made over 1,350 changes to the airframe, instrumentation, and payload capabilities of the helicopter.
The Sikorsky CH-54 Tarhe is an American twin-engine heavy-lift helicopter designed by Sikorsky Aircraft for the United States Army. It is named after Tarhe, an 18th-century chief of the Wyandot Indian tribe whose nickname was "The Crane". [2] The civilian version is the Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane.
Sky crane or skycrane may refer to: A type of aerial crane helicopter pioneered by Sikorsky in 1950s and 1960s where the fuselage is only large enough to accommodate the pilot and crew and does not have a cargo hold or passenger area.
The sky crane system lowered the rover with a 7.6 m (25 ft) [137] tether to a soft landing—wheels down—on the surface of Mars. [ 139 ] [ 144 ] [ 145 ] This system consists of a bridle lowering the rover on three nylon tethers and an electrical cable carrying information and power between the descent stage and rover.
Getting a Mars rover into space is the easy part– it’s the landing that's tough
Intermeshing rotored helicopters have high stability and powerful lifting capability. The latest Kaman K-MAX model is a dedicated sky-crane design used for construction work, and has been modified for trials by the USMC as an optionally-unmanned cargo transporter. Unmanned aerial vehicles with intermeshing rotors have also been flown. [2]
This is the engine that enables the crane to rotate. ... Aerial crane. Aerial cranes or "sky cranes" usually are helicopters designed to lift large loads. Helicopters ...