Miami, Jan 7 (EFE).- The new Vulcan rocket will launch Monday from Florida on the first US commercial robotic mission to the moon (Commercial Lunar Payload Services), carrying cargo from NASA and other countries, including an “ambitious” Mexican mission with mini-bots to study the lunar surface. Astrobiotic’s Peregrine Mission One will launch on United Launch …
Mexico will launch its first mission of sending autonomous mini-robots to the Moon for soil exploration in a scientific first.
Gustavo Medina Tanco, head of the space instrumentation laboratory at the National Autonomous University of Mexico's Institute for Nuclear Sciences (UNAM), said the first-of-its-kind scientific mission is a part of the Colmena project, that envisions the two-wheeled bots scrambling across the lunar surface while taking sophisticated measurements.