On Monday the 8th, the ULA United launch Alliance rocket was launched, which could be the great competition for Elon Musk's company SpaceX, offering economical and reliable launches, the 2007 UL nation of the Union of two giants of the aerospace industry Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing Defense
And in 2014 they partnered with Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' space company, to develop a methane engine. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are once again pitted against each other in this great commercial and technological race through space. On Monday, the Vulcan took off wonderfully well. at 2:18 a.m. ET from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The rocket was intended to launch the Peregrín 1 mission into space bound for the surface of the moon. This mission is part of NASA's commercial lunar cargo services initiative, which basically consists of opening the door to private companies to that carry out transportation services to the moon for anything, from scientific equipment to the remains of the deceased or works of art, a bit in the style of Futurama's Planet Express but without Bender.
The peregrin asiatic lander carried cargo from the United States, Mexico, Germany, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Argentina, Japan, and the Seychelles; Germany sent a radiation detector and some commercial payload capsules, the rest of the nations sent time capsules, works of art, image banks, and the Seychelles sent cryptocurrencies.
The United States sent several loads, without detracting from the others, the six scientific teams from NASA, for which the space agency had to pay $108 to Astrobotic and a little Robert called Lunar Iris from Carnegie Melon University, a Rover designed by university students.
The Rover has a volume like that of a shoe box and weighs only 2 kg, it looks like a toy, but these small rovers with basic equipment are a very interesting tool for future astronauts and explorers of the solar system. The Japanese developed also a mini Rover that was unfortunately lost when the Hakuto-R Probe of the Japanese space company and SpaceX crashed into the lunar surface, but a single Rover is of very little use and although the American one is small at 2 kg, it is still a lot of weight .
The Mexican bet, what Mexico sent in this Peregrine capsule was much more interesting, is called the Colmena project of the Mexican space agency, it consists of five nanorobots that weigh less than 60 g, are autonomous, work with solar energy and measure only 12 cm in diameter, They are light, an astronaut could carry them in his backpack without problems and the most interesting thing would be they would be able to work as a team.
These mini rovers would be the eyes of the astronauts or of a large Rover,
Current rovers like those on Mars are authentic laboratories with wheels and those of the future will be even larger because more equipment is needed to carry out analysis and moving them is slow and complicated, the vision of these rovers is limited to what they have. on its route and to maps provided by the waves that are orbiting Mars, those maps are fine, but from so far away the orbiters are not able to see small details that can be very interesting even crucial, however, if one of these large Rover laboratories If you had a Hive of five or more mini rovers that spread out to explore the territory, it would be like multiplying your eyes and also multiplying the area you can explore.
The mini rovers could locate minerals, rare rocks, small caves or places of interest, they could also identify potential dangers, such as cracks in the ground, ice sheets or dangerous sandy areas that are not visible from an orbiter, so those responsible for the mission Thanks to these mini rovers, they could in a short time have great information and choose the most interesting target to take the Robert laboratory to and also do so by the safest route.
The astronauts of the future, I am sure, will not want to go out to explore the moon, Mars or Titan without a hive of mini rovers in their backpack, whether terrestrial or flying, and that may be a technology that Mexico leads.
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