Category: regolith

NASA crowdsourcing helps build a better Moon digging robot

Post author By Randall
Post date May 17, 2020
Categories In artemis, crowdsourcing, gear, Moon, Nasa, News, rassor, regolith, robot, Robots, Space, Tech

[ad_1] NASA’s Artemis program will eventually need robots to help live off the lunar soil, and it’s enlisting help from the public to make those robots viable. The space agency has picked winners from a design challenge that tasked people with improving the bucket drums RASSOR (Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot) will use to […]

ESA opens plant that turns moondust into oxygen

Post author By Randall
Post date January 19, 2020
Categories In esa, gear, Moon, moondust, regolith, Science, Space, Tech

[ad_1] As that suggests, this process could have an upshot for Moon explorers by producing useful alloys to construct habitats or repair vehicles. There’s a lot of work needed before plants like this can go to the Moon. It needs to store oxygen instead of simply venting the gas. Likewise, scientists would need to determine […]