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Bridgestone Partners with Astrobotic to Develop Lunar Rover Tire
Bridgestone Corporation today announced that the company has reached a collaboration agreement with Astrobotic Technology for joint development of a lunar rover tire.Image: Astrobotic’s 24U CubeRover with tires developed by BridgestoneBridgestone developed a concept model of first- and second-generation tires utilizing its knowledge cultivated for over 90 years of its tire development history, and conducted validation experiments, such as driving…
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ispace-EUROPE announces Completion of First European Designed, Manufactured, and Assembled Lunar Micro Rover
ispace EUROPE S.A. (ispace-EUROPE), the Luxembourg-based subsidiary of ispace, inc. (ispace)(TOKYO: 9348) announced today that the flight model of its European designed, manufactured, and assembled lunar micro rover has been completed and is being prepared for delivery to Japan for integration into the HAKUTO-R Mission 2 RESILIENCE lunar lander. “This is a significant step for the Luxembourg government that is…
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NASA, Japan Advance Space Cooperation, Sign Agreement for Lunar Rover
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Japan’s Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Masahito Moriyama have signed an agreement to advance sustainable human exploration of the Moon. Japan will design, develop, and operate a pressurized rover for crewed and uncrewed exploration on the Moon. NASA will provide the launch and delivery of the rover to the Moon as…
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NASA Selects Companies to Advance Moon Mobility for Artemis Missions
NASA has selected Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab to advance capabilities for a lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) that Artemis astronauts will use to travel around the lunar surface, conducting scientific research during the agency’s Artemis campaign at the Moon and preparing for human missions to Mars. The awards leverage NASA’s expertise in developing and operating rovers to build commercial capabilities…
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NASA’s Network of Small Moon-Bound Rovers Is Ready to Roll
Construction and testing are complete on the CADRE rovers, which will map the lunar surface together as a tech demo to show the promise of multirobot missions. A trio of small rovers that will explore the Moon in sync with one another are rolling toward launch. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California recently finished assembling the robots,…
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Astrolab’s FLEX Rover to be Launched on Upcoming SpaceX Mission to the Moon
Venturi Astrolab, Inc. (Astrolab), announced it has reached an agreement with Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) for the company to transport Astrolab’s Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) rover on an upcoming mission to the Moon. SpaceX will use the Starship launch and landing system for this mission as soon as mid-2026. “Starship is designed to transport large amounts of cargo, including…
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Pittsburgh is going to the moon
Yes, you read that right. Pittsburgh is going to the moon. Well, at least a water searching rover that Astrobotic has been tasked to deliver to the Moon’s South Pole in anticipation of Americans landing on the Lunar Surface beginning in 2024. FROM NASA: NASA has awarded Astrobotic of Pittsburgh $199.5 million to deliver NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover…
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Lunar Outpost Unveils Lunar Resource Prospector
BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Lunar Outpost announced their Lunar Prospector designed to map the Moon’s natural resources. The first Prospector was demonstrated driving and drilling in Lunar regolith simulant at the Colorado School of Mines’ new lunar testbed facility in the Earth Mechanics Institute overseen by the Center for Space Resources. This event marks the first commercial Lunar Prospector publicly tested in the…
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