05 May 2017
Will CubeRover revolutionise planetary surface exploration?
... we are accustomed to seeing, as NASA has selected Astrobotic to develop CubeRover, a class of 2 kilogram rover ... orbit.” said Andrew Horchler, Principal Investigator of the program at Astrobotic. With the low cost and mass of a CubeRover, it has...
11 October 2019
Spacebit unveils its design of the UK's first Moon rover
... lunar surface successfully. A tricky task that has thwarted many recent attempts from other nations, but Astrobotic remain undeterred. “It’s going to be quite a spectacle when we land because we’re going to have multiple small rovers dropping and...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... Creative Inquiry, an experimental interdisciplinary centre at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with CMU spin-off company, Astrobotic Technology, Inc. The core team comprised Lowry Burgess with project managers Associate Professor Dylan...
13 August 2018
NASA to partner with six US companies to develop space exploration technologies
...” The project will advance Frontier’s Deep Space Engine (DSE) by flight demonstration as part of the first Astrobotic Peregrine Lunar Lander mission planned for 2020. Paragon Space Development Corporation in Tucson, Arizona, 1 project, $1.6 million...
12 June 2020
NASA picks Astrobotic to fly VIPER to the Moon
... system. NASA has previously contracted with three companies to make CLPS deliveries to the Moon beginning in 2021. Astrobotic is scheduled to make its first delivery of other instruments to the lunar surface next year. In April, the agency...
25 September 2019
Spacebit announces agreement to land first UK commercial payload on Moon
... new way of working on the lunar surface, and we look forward to more details being released soon,” said Astrobotic CEO John Thornton. Based in London, Spacebit, believes in creating commercially sustainable data and robotics business in space...
