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Carnegie Mellon University

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Astrobotic partnered with Carnegie Mellon University on a NASA Small Business Technology Transfer Phase II project for Distributed Agent Localization Estimation for spaceCraft (DALEC).

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon UniversityTechnical ProductMar 12, 2026Nav System for Lunar Surface Ops Advanced

The Peregrine lander carries a shoebox-sized, 2 kg (4.4-pound) rover named Iris that was built by Carnegie Mellon students to take geological images.

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon UniversityNarrative GeneralJan 7, 2024UPDATE #5: L-1 for launch of ULA’s Vulcan flight test, fingers crossed

Peregrine carries a shoebox-sized, 2 kg (4.4-pound) rover named Iris that was built by Carnegie Mellon students to take geological images.

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon UniversityNarrative GeneralJan 7, 2024LIFTOFF as ULA’s Vulcan launches America’s new rocket

Peregrine carries a shoebox-sized, 2 kg (4.4-pound) rover called Iris that was built by Carnegie Mellon students to take geological images.

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon UniversityNarrative GeneralJan 5, 2024UPDATE 4: L-2 as ULA preps for launch of Vulcan rocket

Peregrine carries a shoebox-sized, 2 kg (4.4-pound) rover called Iris that was built by Carnegie Mellon students to take geological images.

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon UniversityNarrative GeneralJan 1, 2024UPDATE 3: T-minus one week until ULA’s launch of Vulcan rocket

The Peregrine lander carries a shoebox-sized, 2 kg (4.4-pound) rover named Iris built by Carnegie Mellon University students to take geological images.

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon UniversityNarrative GeneralDec 20, 2023UPDATE 2 ULA’s Vulcan rocket now atop the launch vehicle

An August 2022 Carnegie-Mellon University study showed that autonomous delivery services use 94% less energy than traditional delivery services.

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon UniversityNarrative GeneralOct 18, 2022Dronedek Integrates With A2Z Drone Delivery

The NSF grant will fund a large team of graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University to define the field of orbital edge computing and to build and launch satellites as part of a test deployment.

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon UniversityOrg RelationshipJul 7, 2022Carnegie Mellon Engineering’s orbital edge computing work to improve smallsat capabilities

The Carnegie Mellon orbital edge computing project plans to demonstrate monitoring of large-scale events, including potential use cases such as the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon UniversityNarrative PlanJul 7, 2022Carnegie Mellon Engineering’s orbital edge computing work to improve smallsat capabilities

The National Science Foundation’s Cyber-Physical Systems Frontiers Program awarded a $7,000,000 grant to Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering for an orbital edge computing initiative.

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon UniversityNarrative FinancialJul 7, 2022Carnegie Mellon Engineering’s orbital edge computing work to improve smallsat capabilities

Tartan-Artibeus-1 is a sensor-equipped PocketQube nanosatellite developed at Carnegie Mellon University.

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon UniversityNarrative GeneralJan 30, 2022Carnegie Mellon University’s Tartan-Artibeus-1 Smallsat Resident In LEO

CubeRover was developed in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University and the NASA Kennedy Space Center with partial funding from NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research program.

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon UniversityOrg RelationshipOct 2, 2019Astrobotic’s CubeRover Program Awarded $2 Million Contract by NASA

Partner organizations for xVIEW2 include NASA’s Earth Science Disasters Program, FEMA Region 9, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, Cal Fire, the California National Guard, the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute, the United States Geological Survey, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Innovation Network.

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering InstituteTechnical ProductSep 26, 2019Defense Innovation Unit launches new satellite imagery prize challenge

Astrobotic Technology spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 to compete for the Google Lunar X Prize.

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon UniversityNarrative GeneralAug 8, 2019Apollo’s progeny: Today’s space entrepreneurs still standing on the moonshot’s shoulders

NASA’s Lunar Surface and Instrumentation and Technology Payload (LSITP) program selected Astrobotic and Carnegie Mellon University to develop MoonRanger and awarded $5,600,000 for the effort.

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon UniversityOrg RelationshipJul 1, 2019Astrobotic Awarded $5.6 Million NASA Contract to Deliver Autonomous Moon Rover

Astrobotic developed the CubeRover platform in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University under a NASA technology development contract at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon UniversityOrg RelationshipSep 27, 2018CubeRover to Develop Next Generation Planetary Rovers in Luxembourg

Astrobotic is developing a two-kilogram CubeRover with Carnegie Mellon University under a NASA Small Business Innovative Research Phase 2 award.

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon UniversityOrg RelationshipMay 27, 2018Former NASA Astronaut Greg “Box” Johnson becomes Space Nation’s chief space officer

Astrobotic and Carnegie Mellon University collaborated on a 2-kg rover prototype capable of exploring the Moon's surface in Phase I.

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon UniversityNarrative GeneralMar 13, 2018Astrobotic Awarded NASA Contract 
to Develop CubeRover for Lunar Missions

Astrobotic was spun out of Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in 2007.

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon UniversityNarrative GeneralDec 11, 2017Astrobotic Applauds Today’s White House Apollo 17 Commemoration, Recommends a Lunar Surge

Astrobotic was spun out of Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in 2007.

Mentioned as: Carnegie Mellon UniversityNarrative GeneralMay 17, 2017Astrobotic Hires Space Veteran to Lead Lander System Development
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