Finished off the teacher workshop at the National Naval Aviation Museum in November and we're headed right back into planning for the next one at Hurlburt Field in February ...
Did work up the T-37 (see design threads) and now a teacher request through Jon at Lower Hudson Valley. Mars Science Lab Curiosity cruise stage.
For those who have the Atlas V-500 series model from Ecardmodels, here's the bits for an MSL mission payload shroud.
AtlasV-500series-MSLshroud.pdf
The rover is in the downloads and Jules has one up at paper-replika as well. The skycrane I leave to those with more patience than I (it's a real bug/skeleton operation).
For the cruise stage, Curiosity's is similar to the Pathfinder and Mars Rover spacecraft. A biconic aeroshell with a flat disk cruise stage (electronics, enroute thrusters, navigation, solar panels, etc.). Designing is straightforward with the usual frustrations finding enough pictures for the graphics. This one is pretty simple, with an added former disk to help support the band between the heat shield and upper aeroshell.
To keep it simple the cruise stage disk is just two disks joined back to back with a simple edge band for the radiators.
But, of course, detailing to follow ...
Yogi