Product Description

--This is a guide to the 1/35 scale Lunokhod 1 multi-martial kit from Russian artificial satellite model maker Red Iron Models.
――This kit comes with a resin body, etched parts containing wheels, antennas, etc. and wires.

--Lunokhod 1 (Russian: Луноход-1 = [walker on the moon]) is the first unmanned rover sent to the moon by the Soviet Union, and the first remote arrival on another celestial body in human history. It is an operable robot.
--Lunokhod 1 is a lunar rover with a large convex lid with a total length of 2.3 m and eight independently driven tires. It has a conical antenna and a highly directional helical antenna, four TV cameras and the moon. It was equipped with a special expandable device for testing soil density and mechanical properties.
――It was also equipped with an X-ray spectrometer, an X-ray telescope, a cosmic ray detector, and a laser device.
――The solar cell under the lid recharged the battery of the power source during the daytime of the moon, and at night of the moon, the lid was closed and the inside was warmed to the active temperature with the radioactive isotope heater.
--The Lunokhod was designed to work on the moon for three months, but it actually worked for about 11 months from the landing in November 1970 to September 1971.
--Lunokhod traveled 10,540 meters and sent over 20,000 images and 206 high-resolution panoramic images to Earth.
* The image shows the kit assembled and painted.


Item Size/Weight : 29.5 x 17.3 x 5.3 cm / 222g

Product Specifications

Country

Russia/USSR

Item code

RIM35030

JAN code

4589913347502

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