One of three small lunar rovers — part of a NASA technology demonstration called CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) — is prepared for shipping in a clean room on Jan. 29, 2025, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The project is designed to show that a group of robots can collaborate to gather data without receiving direct commands from mission controllers on Earth, paving the way for potential future multirobot missions. The autonomous rovers, plus a base station and camera system, will launch to the Moon aboard IM-3, Intuitive Machines’ third lunar delivery, which has a mission window that extends into early 2026, as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative. The CADRE hardware was delivered from NASA JPL to Intuitive Machines on Feb. 9, 2025.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
2025年1月29日，位于南加州的NASA喷气推进实验室（JPL）的洁净室里，三辆小型月球车中的一辆正准备装运，这辆月球车是NASA名为CADRE（合作自主分布式机器人探索）的技术演示的一部分。该项目旨在展示一组机器人如何在不依赖地球任务控制中心直接指令的情况下协同合作收集数据，为未来可能的多机器人探测任务铺平道路。作为NASA CLPS（商业月球有效载荷服务）计划的一部分，自主探测车以及一个基站和摄像系统将搭乘IM-3任务飞往月球，这是直觉机器公司（Intuitive Machines）的第三次月球运输任务，其任务窗口期将持续到2026年初。CADRE硬件于2025年2月9日从NASA JPL运送至直觉机器公司。
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