In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU)

NASA, Collaborators Announce New Lunar Autonomy Challenge

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NASA, Collaborators Announce New Lunar Autonomy Challenge

Space is hard, but it’s not all hardware.   The new Lunar Autonomy Challenge invites teams of students from U.S. colleges and universities to test their software development skills. Working entirely in virtual simulations of the Moon’s surface, teams will develop an autonomous agent using software that can accomplish pre-defined tasks without help from humans. These … Read more

Into the Belly of the Rover: VIPER’s Final Science Instrument Installed  – NASA

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Into the Belly of the Rover: VIPER’s Final Science Instrument Installed  – NASA

A team of engineers prepares to integrate TRIDENT – short for The Regolith Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain – into the belly of NASA’s first robotic Moon rover, VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover).  TRIDENT, designed and developed by engineers at Honeybee Robotics in Altadena, California, is the fourth and final science instrument to be installed … Read more