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issued this challenge to the global
community to develop miniaturized
payloads that can be sent to the moon
in the next 4-1 years and bridge lunar
strategic knowledge gaps.
Payloads that support prospecting
for resources that help support a are needed. Payloads need to
sustained human presence are highly be similar in size to a new bar of
desirable, in addition to payloads that soap to fit cleanly inside the rover
enable lunar science, demonstrate (maximum external dimensions:
new technologies, and/or advance the 100mm x 100mm x 50mm).
use of resources found on the moon This ideation challenge will award
(in-situ resource utilization, ISRU). 160,000$ total in prizes across two
Imagine a rover the size of your categories. This ideation challenge
Roomba® crawling the moon’s is expected to be followed by new
surface. These small rovers developed challenges to prototype, test,
by NASA and commercial partners and deliver these miniaturized
provide greater mission flexibility and payloads. This larger effort will
allow NASA to collect key information generate a maturation pipeline
about the lunar surface. However, of next-generation instruments,
existing science payloads are too sensors, and experiments that can
big, too heavy, and require too be used for lunar exploration over
much power for these rovers, and the next few years.
new, miniaturized payload designs
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