About the Exploration Technology Group
Honeybee Robotics Exploration Technology Group engineers and builds terrestrial and extraterrestrial drilling, excavation, and geotechnical systems, as well as sample acquisition, transfer and processing technologies. Because these systems are autonomous, smart, low power, light-weight, and low-mass, they have application not only in space, but here on earth in mining and petroleum applications.
Author Archives: Jack Craft
Lunabotics
I’m here at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center serving as a Judge at the 4th annual Lunabotics competition. We’ve got 50 teams in the competition, and each team gets two attempts at mining as much simulated lunar soil as they can. … Continue
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Homeward Bound
Bolek’s time in Antarctica is just about up. Today, he flies out to NZ. He sent us a picture of the send-off committee at the runway. This has been a successful field test from every perspective – the technical performance, … Continue
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