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Could the Next Planetary Rover Come from Canada? - 0 views

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Canadian Space Agency is well known for its robotics but they’ve recently expanded from robotic arms to building prototypes for five new rovers, designed for future lunar and Mars missions
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range from microrovers to full-sized science missions and range in size from 30 kg up to 900 kg.
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the Lunar Exploration Light Rover, is designed to carry a scientific payload and can be fitted with a robotic arm. It has a range of 15 km, can be operated remotely, or can be used to carry astronauts across a planetary surface.
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two Micro-Rover prototypes, at 40 kg and 30 kg., are designed to be operated in conjunction with larger rovers, and can be tethered to them and lowered into otherwise inaccessible areas.
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On the Moon, permanently shadowed craters provide many interesting areas to find water and other volatiles
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craters have steep slopes making it difficult and risky for a large rover
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sending a micro-rover tethered to its mother one gives us the ability to explore the bottom of these craters with a minimum risk.
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they are very slow so it is more efficient to have them on a larger rover to cover long distance and deploy them when needed.
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The micro-rovers can also be used to work alongside astronauts, to gain access to small spaces like caves
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e rovers should be mission-ready by about 2020, and NASA is already interested.
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designs are intended to fit in with those types of activities.
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NASA has an experiment under consideration that entails digging up soil on the Moon and making hydrogen and oxygen out of it
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Canadarm was a fixture on the Space Shuttles and made it possible to do things like deploying satellites like the Hubble Space Telescope
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instrumental in building the International Space Station
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CSA also built the huge Canadarm 2 and Dextre, the highly dexterous dual-armed robot, both of which reside on the International Space Station
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CSA contributed a robotic arm and other equipment to Curiosity
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e CSA doesn’t anticipate any other rover designs, these 5 prototypes could be focused “on more specific applications such as in-situ resource utilization or science,
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