COLORADO SPRINGS — Astrobotic's next moon mission will send not one but two rovers to Earth's nearest neighbor.Falcon Heavy rocket late this year. Griffin's main job is to deliver NASA's ice-hunting VIPER rover to the lunar south polar region, but we learned on Monday that the lander will tote another, smaller rover as well.exploration accessible to a variety of customers. It will be operated using Spacefarer, a software platform developed by the Canadian company Mission Control.
The 1,000-pound rover, which is as big as a golf cart, will spend about 100 Earth days mapping out the distribution and concentration of water ice in the Mons Mouton area. The shoebox-sized CubeRover, meanwhile, will embark upon a demonstration mission that's being supported by CSA's CubeRover will operate on the suface for one lunar day, which is about two Earth weeks. It will perform communications trials with Griffin, drive in the lander's shadow to test its ability to handle thermal extremes, and showcase the abilities of the Spacefarer operating platform on the moon for the first time, if all goes according to plan.
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