Hukumar kula da sararin samaniya ta Amurka NASA ta bayyana sunan kamfanin da zai kai jirgin VIPER rover zuwa duniyar wata.
Shafin yanar gizon hukumar sararin samaniya ya bayar da rahoton cewa, ya kulla yarjejeniya da Astrobotic da ke Pittsburgh kan dala miliyan 199,5, inda a cewarsa za ta kai jirgin VIPER rover zuwa igiyar kudancin wata a karshen shekarar 2023.
The VIPER rover, wanda aka ƙera don nemo ƙanƙara akan tauraron dan adam na duniya, "zai taimaka buɗe hanya don ayyukan 'yan sama jannati zuwa duniyar wata tun daga 2024 kuma zai kawo NASA mataki ɗaya kusa da kafa dorewa, kasancewar dogon lokaci akan wata kamar yadda wani bangare na shirin Artemis na hukumar," in ji hukumar ta sararin samaniya. Amurka.
Aika VIPER zuwa duniyar wata wani bangare ne na shirin NASA na Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), wanda ke ba abokan huldar masana'antu damar isar da kayan aikin kimiyya da sauri zuwa saman tauraron dan adam na duniya. A karkashin sharuɗɗan kwangilar, Astrobotic yana da alhakin sabis na isar da ƙarshen zuwa ƙarshen don VIPER, gami da haɗawa tare da lander Griffin, ƙaddamarwa daga Duniya, da saukowa a saman duniyar wata.
A yayin aikin na kwanaki 100 na Duniya, VIPER rover zai yi tafiya mai nisan kilomita da yawa ta hanyar amfani da kayan aikin kimiyya guda hudu don samfurin yanayin ƙasa daban-daban. Ana sa ran uku daga cikinsu za a gwada su akan wata yayin ayyukan CLPS a cikin 2021 da 2022. Rover kuma zai sami rawar jiki don kutsawa saman duniyar wata zuwa zurfin ƙafa 3 (kimanin 0,9 m).
"Muna yin wani abu da ba mu taba yi ba - na'urorin gwaji akan wata yayin da ake kera rover. VIPER da dimbin kayan biya da za mu aika zuwa duniyar wata a cikin ’yan shekaru masu zuwa za su taimaka mana wajen gane dimbin yuwuwar kimiyyar wata,” in ji Mataimakin Shugaban Hukumar NASA kan Kimiyya Thomas Zurbuchen.
source: 3dnews.ru