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Britain to send a space spider to the Moon – Telegraph.co.uk
The little probe – called Asagumo – has been designed by London-based robotics experts Spacebit
Britain is to launch a robotic space spider to the Moon in 2021, the first time a walking rover has been sent to explore a distant world.
The little probe – called Asagumo – has been designed by London-based robotics experts Spacebit, and is scheduled to hitch a ride to the lunar surface with Nasa next summer.
It will mark the first time a British rover has gone to the Moon, and engineers at Spacebit chose legs instead of wheels so that it can pick its way over bumpy terrain, and crawl through underground…
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