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Contributing to a project that will send three rovers to the moon gives Motiv Space Systems a chance to spread its wings. The Pasadena-based aerospace company was chosen by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration project for the space agency, to develop and build numerous hardware components for the project, which will send a trio of robotic rovers to the moon next year. 

By the end of the year, engineers say they will be ready for launch, with much of the hardware coming from Durham.

NASA revealed last month it will revamp its flagship and science websites, upgrade its app, and launch a new streaming service, NASA+.

Peter Willis has left his work on NASA's Perseverance rover to work on a proposed mission to Enceladus, an icy Saturn moon where he believes life could be detected.

Nuclear Engineering International, 21 July 2023 The US Department of Energy (DOE) has shipped 0.5 kilograms of heat source plutonium oxide from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). It will support future NASA deep space missions that rely on radioisotope power systems, such as the upcoming Dragonfly mission. Dragonfly will…