Created: 2020-05-16
Updated: 2024-01-14
Company - Canadensys Aerospace Corporation
Product/Service
- Classification
- Surface Spacecraft
- Category
- Commercial Rover
Hardware
- Fields
- Moon
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- 2026
The rover will explore a region of the lunar south pole. With the help of its scientific payloads, it will gather scientific data to help find water ice and allow scientists to better understand the lunar geology and environment. The rover will have the ability to:
- drive into and operate inside of permanently shadowed regions for up to one hour.
- survive lunar nights (−170 °C to less than −200 °C), which can last up to 14 Earth days.
- use multiple modes of communication.
- maximize lunar surface operations and scientific data return.
- provide panoramic imagery and video of the lunar surface
The rover will navigate the surface of the Moon to test and demonstrate key systems like surface mobility, telecommunications, dust mitigation, navigation, and remote semi-autonomous control. The objectives of the Canadian lunar rover are to:
- travel on the surface of the Moon to see how the various systems perform.
- showcase the possible applications, feasibility and performance of a new technology.
- make scientific measurements that will help determine the amount of hydrogen present in the Moon soil, which is one of the best indicators of water ice while defining at which temperatures it is detected.
- analyze the lunar soil to better understand the geology of the site.
- assess lunar surface radiation to find out how much radiation future astronauts will be exposed to.
The Canadian Space Agency funds novel ideas for potential Moon infrastructure:
- Will develop a concept for a lunar greenhouse designed to support crewed lunar habitation. $249,998.
- Will assess possibilities for modular surface rovers ranging from micro-rovers to large, pressurized rovers capable of transporting humans. $249,995.
Canada reaches for the Moon: $2.9M to support sustainable lunar exploration, 2023-12-13.
- Prototypes of a plant growth tray and water disinfection assembly designed to support crewed lunar habitation - $449,998.
- Prototype of a complete rover-representative vehicle, rated for terrestrial operations - $500,000.
Lunar Rover
- On 2022 December 11, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the imaging system launched into space aboard the Japanese ispace Hakuto-R lunar lander, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. As part of the in-space check-out procedure on its way to the Moon.
- Among other tasks, the lunar imaging system will be used to image each of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the United Arab Emirates Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) rovers, as they are deployed from opposite sides of the ispace lander soon after arriving on the Moon’s surface sometime in April 2023.
Product/Service
- Classification
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Category
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Fields
- Food for Space
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- Not announced
- Canadensys Aerospace is pleased to announce that we have been awarded a contract from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) for design work on a “Ground Test Demonstrator” (GTD) of a Lunar Greenhouse.
- The GTD, a collaboration between CSA and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) will allow Canadian and German scientists and engineers to collaborate in exploring the technologies required to build a self-sustaining bio-generative life-support system (BLSS) on the moon. Such a system will be integral to the viability of long-term human presence on the lunar surface, as well as to future Mars missions.
- Under the contract, the Canadensys team, which includes academic partners at the University of Guelph and McGill University, will refine the design for the Nutrient Delivery System, Illumination Control System, Plant Health Monitoring System, and a robotic “Versatile Assistant” to enable un-crewed operation of the greenhouse.
Created: 2024-07-15
Updated: 2024-07-26
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News, Research, Projects and Patents
| Title | Type | Date | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canadensys Aerospace Corporation To Supply Microscope for NASA’s Lunar Vertex Mission | News | 2022-05-24 | > anadensys Aerospace Corporation announced today that it has received a contract from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory to supply an advanced multi-spectral microscope for NASA’s Lunar Vertex Mission. Canadensys will deliver the flight hardware to Johns Hopkins in late 2022 for integration onto the mission. |
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