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Pilot Excavator Testing
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A team at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida tests small- and medium-sized bucket drums July 16, 2021, in the Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations Lab’s “big bin” during prototype development for the pilot excavator, a robotic mission designed for lunar operations. The bucket drum excavated lunar regolith simulant. The Swamp Works team leveled and compacted the simulant before excavation as well as measured penetration during the excavator testing.
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Credit linePilot Excavator Testing. NASA/KSC, 2021-07-16. Public domain. ID: KSC-20210716-PH-KLS01_0049.
