NASA’s Army of Autonomous Lunar Robots
With NASA returning to the moon with its moon Artemis Campaign, the Space Agency is developing a large army of automated agricultural robots to achieve this goal.
NASA’s Cadre Rovers is the abbreviation for cooperative autonomous distributed robot exploration, a four-wheel explorer powered by solar panels. About the size of a bag you carry with you, these autonomous robots will map the moon’s surface and use radar to detect the top layer of the moon dust, also known as lunar stucco.
NASA’s cadre Lunar Rovers is ready for transportation.
Wanderers will be able to communicate with each other through radio systems and transmit data back to their Moon Landler. Three cadre wanderers will be launched on commercial spacecraft later this year.
Once the lunar resources are determined, NASA’s IPEX (abbreviation of the field resource utilization excavator) can be excavated. This mini bulldozer lowers the truck hybrid has hollow drums on each side, and they rotate in the opposite direction. The opening on the drum captures and contains Lunar Regolith. This rock can be a source of valuable oxygen, hydrogen and a necessary combination of both: water.
NASA’s IPEX LUNAR excavator is under test
Being able to extract these life-sustaining resources from the lunar environment can help humans live and work on the moon for longer. Perhaps one day, lunar resources will help turn the moon into a starting point for exploring all over the world.
To view the actions of these mini lunar workers, check out the videos in this article.
