NASA’s other ideas about wiper opened the opportunity for someone else to ride on the moon. Just because his cargo was canceled, it did not mean that the journey of Astro Botak was closed – this is scheduled later this year. And on Wednesday, a small launch in the name of Ventor Essetab Inc. announced that it claimed that it had an opportunity to accelerate its lunar rover projects.
“We are excited to get the real wheels in the dirt and see how all our tech performs this year,” said Mathews, chief executive of Astlab. (Despite similar names, both companies are irrelevant.)
Many people inside and outside NASA were upset with the cancellation of the wiper, because Rover, while more than the budget and behind the schedule, was completed. Before being ready for the launch, it needed just another period of testing. NASA officials said that the ready -made rover would be separated instead.
In addition, he said that NASA would still pay $ 323 million to Astro Botak. Thus, canceling the mission will save NASA relatively 84 million after spending PAL 800 million.
For his fees, the Estabobiotic mission will perform according to the plan, but the landler, known as Griffin, will lift the inactive dummy weight instead of wiper.
NASA officials said it had a valuable exercise in itself to successfully perform landing for Astro Botk, and that the company replaced dummy weight, if it could do it to another customer. Load space is free to sell.
“There were more than 60 organizations from around the world at our door,” said John Thornton, chief executive of Astrobotic.
He said, East Petrorab was the best match. “They can move forward fast,” said Mr Thornton. “They had a pay load that was already similar to the Lander interface.”
On this mission, the Easts’ flying rover is similar to the wiper. Mr Mathews declined to explain to the extent to which East Petrolab is paying Astro Botk.
Esollab is producing a jeep river, which can independently drive cargo or people to the moon level. Company calls it Flex, short for Flexible logistics and Exploration Rover.
Flex is too high and heavy that fit on the land of Astrok. Esollab has already booked a place for Flex in the upcoming stars, the Gargeonian spacecraft under the development of Elon Musk, a rocket company, currently established by Elon Musk.
But before sending the moon to Flex, Estellab is a small, £ 1,000 pound called Philip, called Flex Launic Innovation Platform to test technologies such as short-bates, motors, power systems and communications – A special purpose is to study how to minimize the problems caused by lunar dust particles, which are incompetent and sharp.
The little flip is the one that will take the astronomer to the moon.
Mr Mathews said that the flip will also carry a two commercial pay burden which will be announced later.
Despite the failure of Estrobeotic last year, Mr Mathews said he had confidence in Astrobotic. “From our point of view, this is in fact a way to reduce the risk for our post -missions,” he said. “If we do not have full confidence in the astronaut, we do not do it.”
Mr Thornton said a chaos was shown for the company last year. He said, “This is like the old thing, ‘whoever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ “I think in this case, really happened.”
Despite NASA’s efforts to kill wiper, Rover is not dead and has not yet been eliminated. NASA demanded and received suggestions from NASA to continue the mission without additional investment.
Agency This summer expects to decide. But the new Trump administration indicates more interest in Mars than the moon, everything can change soon.
Mr Thornton said Austro Mubercutt was not worried about the possibility yet. “There is definitely a lot of talk in DC,” he said. “But now we are focused on what NASA has made to do us, and that is to bring Griffin to the surface of the moon.”
Mr Mathews said that if NASA really turned towards Mars, East Petrob could also be lost.
“We have always considered ourselves a multi -plant business, and we too will be excited to go to Mars,” he said.
