{"id":8766,"date":"2023-03-27T18:38:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T10:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/gitai-completes-a-successful-lunar-base-construction-demonstration\/"},"modified":"2023-03-27T18:38:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T10:38:40","slug":"gitai-completes-a-successful-lunar-base-construction-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/gitai-completes-a-successful-lunar-base-construction-demonstration\/","title":{"rendered":"GITAI Completes a Successful Lunar Base Construction Demonstration"},"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\/gitai_700_638154935645989057.png\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"GITAI Completes a Successful Lunar Base Construction Demonstration\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/gitai_700_638154935645989057.png\" style=\"opacity: 0;\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/gitai_700_638154935645989057.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p>GITAI conducted a successful demonstration of lunar base construction using two GITAI inchworm-type robotic arms and two GITAI Lunar Robotic Rovers in a simulated lunar environment. The GITAI robots completed all planned tasks successfully, and have passed various tests corresponding to Level 4 of NASA&#8217;s Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) in a simulated lunar environment in the desert. The majority components of the robots have already passed various environmental tests in simulated space environments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the demand for lunar exploration and lunar base construction increases, there is a growing need for safe and affordable labor in space. GITAI has responded to these needs by developing an inchworm-type robotic arm equipped with &#8220;grapple end-effectors&#8221; on both ends of the arm. This unique feature increases &#8220;Capability&#8221;, enabling it to connect to various tools (end-effectors) to perform multiple tasks for various applications, and &#8220;Mobility&#8221;, enabling it to move in any direction. It can also connect\/disconnect itself among different vehicles such as rovers, landers, and satellites. GITAI has also developed an advanced lunar robotic rover that can perform general-purpose tasks on the moon such as exploration, mining, inspection, maintenance, and assembly.<\/p>\n<p>This ground demonstration test emulates tasks that will be required for future lunar explorations and lunar base constructions using four robots: two inchworm-type robotic arms and two lunar robotic rovers. The following three sets of tests were conducted in the simulated lunar environment in the desert, and all tests were completed successfully:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Excavation (mining)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Excavating<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2. Lunar base construction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Installing solar panels<\/li>\n<li>Placing an antenna module on a high place<\/li>\n<li>Welding a panel<\/li>\n<li>Towing an inflatable module<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3. Maintenance (self-repairing)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Changing the rover tire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GITAI conducted a successful demonstration of lunar base construction using two GITAI inchworm-type robotic arms and two GITAI Lunar Robotic Rovers in a simulated lunar environment. The GITAI robots completed all planned tasks successfully, and have passed various tests corresponding to Level 4 of NASA&#8217;s Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) in a simulated lunar environment 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":[26,20],"class_list":["post-8766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766"}],"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=8766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}