Spacebit Mission One: UK’s 1st Moon Rover to Launch in 2021

The United Kingdom is set to make its own giant leap soon, with a very small rover. A ., four-legged robot Asagumo built by Spacebit will launch aboard Astrobotic’s Peregrine moon lander in July of 2021. The special feature of Asagumo rover is its tiny size — the basis of a rover is a single-unit CubeSat frame usually used in tiny satellites. Spacebit aims to launch a fleet of these little robots to explore the lunar subsurface and near subsurface — especially lava tubes that would be a good place
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