{"id":7598,"date":"2024-03-07T21:31:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T13:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/gitai-achieves-milestone-with-demonstration-of-lunar-infrastructure-construction\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T21:31:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T13:31:25","slug":"gitai-achieves-milestone-with-demonstration-of-lunar-infrastructure-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/gitai-achieves-milestone-with-demonstration-of-lunar-infrastructure-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"GITAI Achieves Milestone with Demonstration of Lunar Infrastructure Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/gi_C_638453913491525635.jpg\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"GITAI Achieves Milestone with Demonstration of Lunar Infrastructure Construction\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/gi_C_638453913491525635.jpg\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/gi_C_638453913491525635.jpg\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>GITAI USA<\/strong>, one of the world\u2019s leading space robotics startups, announced a significant milestone in lunar infrastructure construction technology. In a groundbreaking demonstration and a \u201cfirst of its kind,\u201d GITAI successfully demonstrated its robotics technology for constructing a 5-meter-high communication tower in an environment simulating the lunar surface. The project was spearheaded by GITAI in collaboration with its customer, <strong>KDDI Corporation<\/strong>, one of Japan\u2019s largest telecommunications operators.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration was conducted only using GITAI\u2019s products, including (1) Lunar Rover and (3) Inchworm robots equipped with \u201cgrapple end-effectors\u201d on both ends of the arm, enabling a wide range of tasks necessary for construction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key highlights from the demonstration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this technological demonstration, GITAI successfully accomplished the following three tasks for the lunar communication tower autonomously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On a desert simulating the lunar surface, GITAI\u2019s Lunar Rover and 3 x Inchworm Robots constructed a 5-meter communication tower.<\/li>\n<li>The same combination of the robots connected the communication antenna* to the apex of the tower. Also, connected power cables and the energization were confirmed.<\/li>\n<li>The same combination of the robots proceeded to detach the antenna and disassemble the tower. This activity was designed to simulate maintenance operations essential for sustainable lunar city development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*In this collaboration, KDDI provided the specifications and insights for their mobile phone base station on Earth, and GITAI developed the communication antenna optimized for robotic construction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About GITAI\u2019s products<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To achieve the scalability of the robotics task capability, GITAI identified the general-purpose Inchworm Robot and Rover Robot as a minimum unit, and the combination can realize the scalability. GITAI\u2019s robots can operate in a 1G environment, allowing for extensive testing and evaluation on Earth before deploying their robots in space. This concept was selected for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency\u2019s (DARPA) 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) capability study in December 2023.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration proved the broad applicability of GITAI\u2019s robotics technology and its combination, verifying that the company\u2019s robots possess the essential capabilities required for scalable lunar urban development for construction, inspection, and maintenance services not only for telecommunication towers but for all other lunar infrastructure development projects, including in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) plants, power towers, launch pads, and more.<\/p>\n<p>GITAI is also actively working for the improvement of the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) and is currently undergoing an external in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM) tech-demo onboard the Space Station (ISS) with the company\u2019s 1.5-meter-long autonomous dual robotic arm system (S2). By demonstrating the S2, a robot that embodies the essence of GITAI\u2019s robotics technology, incorporating the same fundamental technology used in the company\u2019s innovative Inchworm Robot and Lunar Rover, GITAI aims to achieve (TRL) 7. In June 2023, GITAI also successfully completed lunar environment testing for the major components of their in-house developed lunar Inch-worm type robotic arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GITAI USA, one of the world\u2019s leading space robotics startups, announced a significant milestone in lunar infrastructure construction technology. In a groundbreaking demonstration and a \u201cfirst of its kind,\u201d GITAI successfully demonstrated its robotics technology for constructing a 5-meter-high communication tower in an environment simulating the lunar surface. The project was spearheaded by GITAI in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[26,25,20],"class_list":["post-7598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598"}],"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=7598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}