Sentences with phrase «for lunar rovers»

Bill Nye reveals NASA's plans for a lunar rover that may launch in 2018.

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Jason has designed and built robots for over a decade including lunar rovers, lunar landers, and aerial transportation drones.

One of their flagship efforts is a lunar rover concept vehicle called Scarab, which may be the forebear to future generations of robots that will scour the moon for concentrations of hydrogen, water, and volatile chemicals that would be critical for supporting a lunar colony.

Last December Whittaker, who is also a contender with a separate team for the $ 30 million Google Lunar X-Prize, demonstrated the four - wheeled rover, collecting samples of soil and rock guided by a laser camera.

Dayton Jones and Thomas Kuiper, radio astronomers at JPL, have sketched a plan for deploying a rover to build a VLF radio telescope - essentially a huge network of wires acting as radio - wave receivers - in a crater on the lunar farside, where the moon's bulk blots out Earth's radio noise.

«To know the origin and evolution of the moon is to know those of Earth,» says Tatsuaki Hashimoto of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the lead scientist for a proposed lunar rover called SELENE - 2.

Looking beyond the lunar landscape, China is also busy at work on a Mars rover that is slated for a 2020 liftoff.

And a lunar rover hasn't been rolled out for a parade since Richard Nixon's second inauguration in 1973.

Suffering from mal de mer but otherwise exhilarated, I exit the capsule and explore not the sandy Red Planet but the ride queue area nearby, which snakes under an original Apollo - era lunar rover, designed by NASA for training purposes.

First prize is $ 20 million for the group that can land a lunar rover — an unmanned robotic probe — on the Moon, take it on a 500 - metre trek and broadcast video back to Earth by 31 December 2012.

To help aspiring lunar explorers, startup launch services firm Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of El Segundo, California, is offering to fly contestants» rovers on its Falcon rockets at cost, which would be about $ 7 million for its smallest booster.

MSSS has produced visible and ultraviolet cameras for the Mars Global Surveyor (1996), Mars Climate Orbiter (1998), Mars Polar Lander (1999), Mars Odyssey (2001), Cosmos 1 (2005), Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2005), Mars Scout Phoenix (2007), Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (2009), a classified U.S. spacecraft, and the Mars Science Laboratory rover (2011).

MSSS also built the suite of high resolution cameras aboard the 2009 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and has delivered four science cameras for the 2011 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover mission and one for the 2011 Juno Mission to Jupiter.

In 2004, MSSS was selected to provide three camera systems (four total cameras) for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover and three cameras for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission.

1960s: GM develops electric propulsion system for Apollo lunar module and lunar rover, both of which are powered by silver - zinc batteries.

[11] In April 2011, Astrobotic received a $ 599,000 two - year contract to develop a scalable gravity offload device for testing rover mobility in simulated lunar gravity under NASA's Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR).

«I think that the science is inconclusive on this... I personally believe that the solar flares are more responsible for climatic cycles than anything that human beings do and our lunar, our rovers on Mars have indicated that there has been a slight warming in the atmosphere of Mars and that certainly was not caused by the internal combustion engine.»