A Group of College Students Are Sending a Rover To the Moon (fortune.com) 29
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: The U.S., Soviet Union, and Japan have all sent robots to the moon over the past 50 years. Now, a group of college students is joining in by building a shoebox-sized rover that they plan to launch in May, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. The lunar rover, called Iris, will be the first privately-made American robot to explore the surface of the moon, according to the project's website. But that's not all -- it would also be the first student-built rover, and the smallest and lightest one yet. Around 300 students from Carnegie Mellon University have all pitched in on the project.
Iris is tiny and weighs 2 kgs (4.4 lbs) -- but the design is deliberately small. The rover will fly on a private rocket carrying 14 payloads to the moon, which includes Iris, projects for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as well as some humans. The project involved around 300 students, who will also control and operate Moonshot Mission Control, the control center for Iris based in CMU's campus in Pittsburgh. Iris will spend a total of 50 hours on the moon's surface before it runs out of battery, after which it will be left on the moon. It has two cameras that will help it capture images of dust on the moon's surface.
Iris is tiny and weighs 2 kgs (4.4 lbs) -- but the design is deliberately small. The rover will fly on a private rocket carrying 14 payloads to the moon, which includes Iris, projects for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as well as some humans. The project involved around 300 students, who will also control and operate Moonshot Mission Control, the control center for Iris based in CMU's campus in Pittsburgh. Iris will spend a total of 50 hours on the moon's surface before it runs out of battery, after which it will be left on the moon. It has two cameras that will help it capture images of dust on the moon's surface.
Way to go. (Score:3)
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I like the phrase "as well as some humans" as if that was just a minor afterthought of the mission. Almost seems like an AI-written article from the future.
Click on your browser's "reader mode/view" (Score:4, Insightful)
It seems to get you around the paywall on this particular story.
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12ft.io also works: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%... [12ft.io]
TFA is crap anyway. The very first sentence mentions the U.S., Soviet Union, and Japan. Japan hasn't landed anything on the Moon. A private Japanese company might do it next month. China has though, and was omitted from the list.
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Which web browsers in PCs?
VIRGIN is now officially over. (Score:1)
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/3... [cnbc.com]
You can take the fork out of it. It's inedible.
Now we wait for ULA's breakup along with the sale of one of the partners' assets.
That will not help the non-May-rth Vulcan launch.
This Rover won't be "Coming over" to the moon any time soon.
UAE rover already in orbit (Score:3)
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The UAE student built rover is already in orbit around the moon.
I see your ante, and raise the fact that everyone who built lunar rovers 50 years ago, were at one time students as well.
Inaccurate statement smacks of expected narcissism.
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So is the Japanese one. Landing planned for next month.
I guess TFA counts the Apollo lunar rovers, because the US never landed any robotic ones. The USSR did, and so did China.
Japan has never soft landed anything on the Moon so I have no idea why they are on the list. They have satellites, but no landers. Even the Japanese rover landing next month is using a foreign lander to get there.
the worst-written sentence on the internet this we (Score:2)
This is Fortune's fault, not Slashdot, btw:
"The rover will fly on a private rocket carrying 14 payloads to the moon, which includes Iris, projects for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as well as some humans. "
Yowza.
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Paywalls, no science, and don't count on it (Score:1)
First, the article is paywalled, and fairly tame in details. A more thorough review, not under paywall, and put out by the primary source (Carnegie Mellon University) is at: https://www.cmu.edu/news/stori... [cmu.edu] and is much more informative than either Fortune or Businessweek, neither of whom would know "science" until it hit their investment portfolio.
Second, the headline is misleading. The students are not sending anything to the moon. They are shipping it to Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 41. From
More bad news for Virgin, Vulcan. HS students also (Score:1)
This just in.
Virgin Galactic white-knight investor pulls out. Another no-pay week coming up.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/2... [cnbc.com]
ULA says Vulcan upper stage failed testing. Good summary (as always) by ArsTechnica Space expert Eric Berger:
https://link.arstechnica.com/v... [arstechnica.com]
NB You don't have to be in college to get your experiment to space. These Michigan high-schoolers are doing it:
https://www.sooeveningnews.com... [sooeveningnews.com]
First a Tesla, now a Rover (Score:1)
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Not that Rover. This one. [blogspot.com]
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Something to share with my robotics class (Score:2)
Does anyone have any better pictures of it? the website is very thin on details.
Proof of Moon Landing (Score:2)
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Wait... what? (Score:2)
Who edited this? I can't tell if this means that they are "carrying projects for some humans" which means... an AI wrote this? Or, does it mean it's "carrying some humans" as in human remains?
"as well as some humans." (Score:1)
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