Exploring with Space Robotics
The Need for Space Robotics in Exploration
- Reducing the risks associated with human space exploration
- Performing tasks beyond human capabilities and limitations
- Efficiently conducting repetitive and time-consuming tasks
Current Space Robotics Missions
- Curiosity Rover: The NASA Mars rover is exploring Mars, collecting soil and rock samples, and analyzing them for the presence of life.
- Hayabusa2: A Japanese space probe that collected samples from an asteroid and returned it to Earth.
- Chang’e-4: A Chinese probe that landed on the far side of the Moon. It is conducting experiments and observations of the lunar environment.
- Insight Probe: A NASA mission designed to track Mars’s seismic activity to provide insight into the planet’s interior structure.