Created: 2020-01-09
Updated: 2023-03-04
Product/Service - Asagumo
- Classification
- Surface Spacecraft
- Category
- Commercial Rover
- Fields
- Lunar Rover
Moon
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- 2023
- Partners
- Astrobotic
Spacebit announced plans in October to send a wheeled rover to the moon in the 2021 onboard Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander.
Spacebit announced a contract in 2019 to send Asagumo, a 1.3-kilogram rover that travels on four legs, to the moon on Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander flight in 2021.
The main goal of the mission is to deliver to the Moon surface a payload weighing about 1.5 kg to:
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