This animated artist’s concept shows three small rovers, part of NASA’s CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) technology demonstration, traversing the lunar surface together. Created by Motiv Space Systems in Pasadena, California, in collaboration with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, this rendering highlights critical rover and mobility functions.
Set to land in the Reiner Gamma region of the Moon under NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative, CADRE aims to prove that multiple robots can work together autonomously without direct human control.
The trio of small, solar-powered rovers, each about the size of a carry-on suitcase, will explore the Moon as a team, communicating via radio with each other and a base station aboard the lander. By taking measurements from different locations simultaneously, CADRE will show how multi-robot missions can gather data that a single robot cannot, offering exciting possibilities for future missions.
Motiv Space Systems contributed subsystems and hardware for three of the four CADRE systems, including designing and building the mobility system and rover chassis, the base station, the rover deployers, and the motor controller boards. They also procured and tested the actuators with the flight motor controller boards.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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