Motiv Space Systems’ robotic arms, actuators, and drive electronics have been deployed on NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover, the CADRE lunar rovers, and precision mechanisms supporting scientific instruments and spacecraft subsystems.
Motiv Space Systems’ technology supported NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars and the CADRE lunar rovers.
The U.S. Space Force will integrate its space forces at the component level to provide a cadre of space experts who can work with the Joint Force, allies, and partners to integrate space activities into shared operations, activities, and investments.
In a CADRE experiment, each rover will explore a designated area of about 4,300 square feet (400 square meters) and create a topographic 3D map using stereo cameras.
The CADRE rovers are built from a combination of commercial off-the-shelf parts and custom-built components to balance robustness, compactness, and light weight.
CADRE will launch as a payload on Intuitive Machines’ third lunar lander mission, IM-3, under NASA’s CLPS initiative managed by the Science Mission Directorate.
Each CADRE rover will carry multistatic ground-penetrating radar that uses reflections from other rovers to create 3D images of subsurface structure down to about 10.1 m (10 m).
Motiv Space Systems designed and built key CADRE hardware elements at the company’s Pasadena, California, facility.
USSPACEFOR-INDOPAC will provide U.S. Indo-Pacific Command a cadre of space experts to work with allies and partners to integrate space activities into shared operations, activities, and investments.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. was selected by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to supply solar panels for NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Explorers (CADRE) program.
Mike Fincke, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore have been training together as a cadre supporting Starliner since the initial OFT-2 launch attempt was postponed in August 2021.
The NRO plans to procure synthetic aperture radar commercial imagery from a growing cadre of vendors in 2022.
Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley joined the commercial crew cadre of astronauts in 2015 to train on both SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner vehicles.
NASA selected Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley in 2015 as part of an initial cadre of astronauts to train and work with both Boeing and SpaceX on commercial crew vehicles.
The Army will retain a space cadre of about 2,000 military and civilian personnel who support Army operations or are part of staffs supporting units in the field.
If created, a Space Force could comprise 35,000 to 40,000 personnel from Air Force Space Command, the Army's space cadre, and the intelligence community.