RESOLVE rover short for Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and Lunar Volatiles ExtractionResolve Rover Begins Testing, NASA KSC
Marc’s note: With the Shuttle retirement the Kennedy Space Center has been active in promoting itself and what it can offer. That’s good and as it should be. However its latest video promoting a rover “NASA is developing” at KSC is misleading in that it does not mention once its partner in the project, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The video makes it sound like it’s an all NASA project being worked on at KSC. Most of the video was shot during a media opportunity last month at KSC which included CSA personel, one of which appears in the video. Currently the RESOLVE mission is in Hawaii conducting tests on Mauna Kea through July 20. What is the CSA contributing? Well here’s the list:
– The Artemis Junior terrestrial rover will serve as the semi-autonomous mobile platform for payloads, including NASA instruments designed to prospect for water ice and other lunar resources; Destin, a versatile onboard drill and sample transfer system; and Q6 Stack, an avionics suite consisting of a powerful, low-mass and low- power hybrid processors and interface modules, which will control the RESOLVE system.
Whoever wrote the script at KSC PAO has some explaining to do.
Earlier press releases:
– Rover’s Exploration May Lead to Deep Space, NASA
– The Canadian Space Agency and NASA Test Lunar Technologies, Canadian Space Agency

Marc Boucher is an entrepreneur, writer, editor, podcaster and publisher who has worked in space media for more than 25 years. In 1999 he co-founded SpaceRef with Keith Cowing. The new media company grew into a network that included NASA Watch and The Astrobiology Web. After selling SpaceRef, he joined Multiverse Media, which later merged with SpaceNews. There he helped steer the combined company toward more multimedia, a subscription paywall and intelligence products, and pushed for a mobile app. He is also the founder of SpaceQ Media, Canada’s space news and market intelligence publication.

Marc started his first Internet content business in 1992 and hasn’t looked back. When he’s not working, he loves exploring Canada and the world and expanding his photography skills.

4 replies on “Misleading KSC Video”

  1. Please make sure that the RESOLVE rover can climb down from the Morpheus lander.  It may just need a longer ramp that unfolds.

  2. A solar powered lunar rover – that sounds like a useful device.  I hope they can change the payload.

  4. I believe this project has been on the drawing boards of NASA for several years and has been passed back and forth between companies as if its a hot potato.
    Its another example of how NASA can’t decide what’s good for the program.

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