the school’s Instrumentation Lab built the control systems, navigation and onboard guidance for the Apollo command and lunar modules. A team of MIT researchers developed the Apollo Guidance Computer that not only calibrated the exact course to the Moon, but also communicated with 150 other devices onboard, controlling physical elements of the spacecraft. This compact computer was ahead of its time as it weighed only 70 pounds compared to its mammoth predecessors that took over entire rooms.
The mission, scheduled to take off from Cape Canaveral, will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It will only take a day to complete. Well, a lunar day, which is closer to two weeks for those of us on Earth. To speed up its research process, cut costs of public funding and avoid long proposal timelines that come with government funding, MIT made its arrangements directly with Lunar Outpost rather than working through NASA. Neither MIT nor Lunar Outpost disclosed the financial terms of the deal.
MIT will have two payloads aboard Lunar Outpost’s Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform rover. About the size of a thumb, the RESOURCE Camera will generate 3-D images of different lunar points of interest. The second payload is the AstroAnt, a miniature rover the size of a matchbox that will drive atop the MAPP rover and take contactless measurements of the rover’s radiator.
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