See it in action below:
From transporting breakfast burritos to the future development of robots that drill and transport rock during asteroid mining, students in engineering have a number of possibilities to work on. Individuals interested in these developments as business ventures or school projects are encouraged to take part in the Lunabotics Challenge at NASA and to look into the future Artemis mission goals. Whether you enter the challenge or not, researching what works or does not work well for other groups will give you a head-start in your own robotics project designs.
(Read more about the "Smol" Starship robot here.)
This month, on October 12th, NASA is scheduling its first rocket launch to asteroid 16-Psyche. Asteroid Psyche is a metal-rich asteroid, potentially suitable for future mining and rock sampling efforts. Part of the attraction of mining asteroids is the observation that some of them appear to contain much higher quantities of iron, nickel, cobalt and platinum group metals than currently available on our own planet. In the case of Psyche, this asteroid is located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The Psyche mission vehicle is expected to arrive at the asteroid in the year 2029.
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