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Griffin-1 will also carry Astrobotic Technology's small rover CubeRover-1.
The lander will also deliver two rovers: a CubeRover called Moonranger from Astrobotic and Canada’s first lunar rover through the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
Bridgestone Corporation reached a collaboration agreement with Astrobotic Technology to jointly develop a lunar rover tire for the Astrobotic 24U CubeRover.
Astrobotic’s CubeRover completed more than 150 mobility tests inside a 120-ton enclosure designed to mimic the surface of the Moon.
Astrobotic and Mission Control announced on 2024-04-08 that they will use Mission Control’s Spacefarer software to operate Astrobotic’s first CubeRover.
Astrobotic’s CubeRover will travel to the lunar south pole on Astrobotic’s Griffin lander mission.
Astrobotic’s CubeRover’s development has been backed by over $20 million in NASA awards.
Astrobotic's CubeRover has been engineered to work alongside Astrobotic’s lunar landers for long-range communications.
Astrobotic’s CubeRover is designed to traverse multiple kilometers across planetary bodies and accommodate a vast variety of payloads.
The 6U CubeRover will be delivered on an upcoming Astrobotic lander mission as early as 2026.
Astrobotic has partnered with Hellenic Technology of Robotics to develop space-grade wheels for the CubeRover.
Astrobotic will deliver its second CubeRover to NASA early next year after mobility testing in the simulant lab, a thermal vacuum chamber, a vibration table, and other offsite test facilities.
The base station, power receiver, and CubeRover flight units will be delivered to NASA with the goal of being infused into a near-term lunar mission via the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program in 2023.
Astrobotic’s Planetary Mobility department delivered rover hardware to an outside entity for the first time with the CubeRover.
Astrobotic’s CubeRover development will continue under a $2,000,000 NASA Tipping Point contract that concludes in February 2022.
Work for both CubeRover contracts began 2020-09 and will continue through 2022-07-01.
The GPR antenna funded by the $741,000 contract will integrate with a prototype of Astrobotic’s 6U CubeRover and be tested on the ground.
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.
Astrobotic will partner with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to equip CubeRover with a smart vision system that can adapt resolution to provide high definition for critical science targets and lower definition for routine navigation to preserve bandwidth.
Astrobotic received a $2,000,000 NASA Tipping Point contract for CubeRover.