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As part of a month-long series of real-world and virtual events showcasing upcoming technology, Nissan has revealed a lunar rover prototype it’s currently working on with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).Continue ReadingCategory: Space, Sc… Continue reading Nissan tests all-wheel control system in JAXA lunar rover prototype
Northrop Grumman has entered into an agreement with AVL, Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Michelin to design and build a Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) to transport astronauts on the Moon’s surface for NASA’s Artemis project.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading Northrop Grumman and partners to develop a new lunar rover for NASA
Jezero crater on Mars was chosen as the landing site for the Perseverance rover because satellite images suggested it was once an ancient lake. NASA scientists have now found more direct evidence of the location’s watery past, as photos snapped by the … Continue reading Ancient Martian lake and river delta clear in Perseverance photos
Good news from Jezero crater as the Mars rover Perseverance manages to accomplish for the first time what it was sent to do: collect and cache core samples from rocks. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 5, 2021
Computer engineering student [sherwin-dc] had a rover project which required streaming video through an ESP32 to be accessed by a web server. He couldn’t find documentation for the standard camera …read more Continue reading ESP32 Video Input Using I2S
NASA’s Curiosity rover has been exploring Gale crater for nine years, and the sediments it’s been studying look an awful lot like those left behind from an ancient lake. But now new research from the University of Hong Kong proposes a much drier explan… Continue reading Curiosity might not have landed in a lake after all, says new model
There’s a military adage that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. While we haven’t gone to war with Mars, at least not yet, it does seem to be …read more Continue reading No Hole in One: Perseverance Strikes Out on First Mars Core Attempt
Saturn’s moon Titan is one of the most intriguing places in the solar system, so much so that NASA is planning to send a rotorcraft there in the mid 2030s. Now the science team behind this Dragonfly mission has outlined its science goals and objectives… Continue reading NASA’s Dragonfly to search for life on Titan
Back in May, China became just the third nation to land on the surface of Mars as it touched down with its Tianwen-1 probe. Packed aboard was the country’s first interplanetary rover, named Zhurong, which can be seen and heard making its very movements… Continue reading China shares sights and sounds of its rover’s first moves on Mars
ESA has awarded a contract to Milrem Robotics for a series of projects to provide planetary rovers with a higher degree of autonomy by using the capabilities that Milrem developed for its line of modular military robots.Continue ReadingCategory: Space,… Continue reading Milrem Robotics to apply military robotic tech to planetary rovers