American space agency NASA is looking into nickel-titanium as a potential material for future planetary rovers wheels, ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock.

Blue Ghost's main mission will be research. It will hang out in Earth's orbit for 25 days taking measurements and waiting for ...

Especially in planetary exploration, these disadvantages mean that these systems cannot be realised in current and near-future missions. The DLR "Scout" rover therefore uses a novel, flexible spoked ...

Please follow the instructions here in order to set up Unity. In order to run on a physical rover, just one launch file is needed: ros2 launch kalman_bringup urc_autonomy_rover.launch.py To launch the ...

Burns’ student teams have built teleoperated rover systems where STEM students gain experience in the design, construction, and remote operation of planetary rovers. The students investigate the ...

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

Each year, the “Rock Yard” at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, is the site of a unique event: the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts-Academic Linkages (RASC-AL), or Robo-Ops, planetary ...

Substantial progress has also been made by CAE member, Zongquan Deng, on planetary rover mobility systems. His team constructed the topological atlas database for suspension configuration ...

Abstract: Using a wheeled bevameter (WB) to measure wheel-terrain interaction (WTI) properties ahead of a planetary rover has become a trending and effective way to assess the mechanical properties of ...