A team of engineers prepares to integrate TRIDENT – short for The Regolith Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain – into the belly of NASA’s first robotic Moon rover, VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover). TRIDENT, designed and developed by engineers at Honeybee Robotics in Altadena, California, is the fourth and final science instrument to be installed […]
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General, Ames Research Center, Earth's Moon, In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU), VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)
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February 13, 2024
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