Explore how Mars rover AutoNav and TRN lunar landing technologies advance autonomous spacecraft navigation, enabling self-guided, human-free space missions across Mars, the Moon, and beyond.

MADISON — When a multimillion-dollar extraterrestrial vehicle gets stuck in soft sand or gravel — as did the Mars rover Spirit in 2009 — Earth-based engineers take over like a virtual tow truck, ...

What methods and simulations can engineers use to accurately test rovers that are used on other worlds like the Moon and Mars? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Field Robotics ...

Robotic space rovers keep getting stuck because the surface of the moon is “fluffier” than on Earth, suggests a new study. Researchers reckon they’ve finally worked out why the multi-million dollar ...

Just like the Scarecrow of Oz, it turns out the rover was smart all along, it just didn't realize!

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