{"id":57425,"date":"2021-05-26T20:23:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T12:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lockheed-martin-and-general-motors-to-collaborate-on-moon-rover\/"},"modified":"2021-05-26T20:23:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T12:23:02","slug":"lockheed-martin-and-general-motors-to-collaborate-on-moon-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lockheed-martin-and-general-motors-to-collaborate-on-moon-rover\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin and General Motors to Collaborate on Moon Rover"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Lockheed Martin <\/b>and <b>General Motors<\/b> are working together to develop lunar rovers that could be used to help astronauts explore the surface of the Moon. The companies said the collaboration, announced May 26, will support <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2019s Artemis program which is working to send humans back to the Moon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NASA has previously asked for commercial feedback on developing a Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV), but has not announced a specific contract award. Lockheed Martin and General Motors did not disclose if there is a contract attached to this collaboration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurface mobility is critical to enable and sustain long-term exploration of the lunar surface. These next-generation rovers will dramatically extend the range of astronauts as they perform high-priority science investigation on the Moon that will ultimately impact humanity\u2019s understanding of our place in the solar system,\u201d Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Space, commented<\/p>\n<p>GM has a history of working with NASA and manufactured the inertial guidance and navigation systems for the entire Apollo Moon program. GM also helped develop the electric Apollo LRV that was used on Apollo\u2019s 15-17 missions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to have a sustained presence at the moon, we\u2019re going to need mobility. It\u2019s going to be a critical piece of that infrastructure, and it\u2019s also going to take aerospace companies and non aerospace companies working together to build that infrastructure,\u201d Lisa Callahan, Lockheed Martin vice president and general manager of Commercial Civil Space said during an online press conference Wednesday. \u201cGM is making billions of dollars in investments in battery technology and autonomy. We\u2019re really excited about this partnership, and pairing that with our expertise and building deep space robotic and human spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed Martin and General Motors are working together to develop lunar rovers that could be used to help astronauts explore the surface of the Moon. The companies said the collaboration, announced May 26, will support NASA\u2019s Artemis program which is working to send humans back to the Moon.&nbsp; NASA has previously asked for commercial feedback [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}