Michael Sims, CEO, and founder of Ceres Robotics Inc, along with Greg Schmidt, Director of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), and David Morrison of NASA Ames, give an in-depth explanation on the future hopes and obstacles of lunar exploration.

      NASA has selected three commercial Moon landing service providers that will deliver science and technology payloads under Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) as part of the Artemis program. Each commercial lander will carry NASA-provided payloads that will conduct science investigations and demonstrate advanced technologies on the lunar surface, paving the way for NASA astronauts to land on the lunar surface by 2024. “Our selection of these U.S. commercial landing service providers represents America’s return to the Moon’s surface for the first time in...

When NASA revealed the names of nine companies eligible for contracts to deliver payloads to the moon on robotic landers, it set off a flurry of activity among firms with related technology.

Deep Space Systems mobile lander concept. Credit: Deep Space Systems

“Going back to the moon with commercial technology opens the floodgates,

” said Grant Anderson, president, chief executive and co-founder of Paragon Space Development Corp., a thermal control technology specialist and Moon Express teammate for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.

NASA’s recent...

 Michaels Sims, founder and CEO of Ceres Robotics Inc, gives an overview of the link between space exploration and AI/robotics.

In 2004, after the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) landed I took to writing down each day after getting back to the apartment in Pasadena about that day.  My goal was just to share and educate about what it was like and what was happening.  It was to share the dream.

The problem was that we had two rovers on the surface and they were twelve hours apart.  Each of us doing operations was assigned for that shift to one or the other of the rovers, either to Spirit (the first to land) or to Opportunity.We previously had lectures about sleep deprivation, and how fligh...