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NASA mechanical design engineer Richard Hagen, left, and ORNL researcher Michael Borish inspect a lunar rover wheel prototype that was 3D printed at the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy
While the prototype wheel printed at the US Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, or MDF, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will not actually be used onit was created to meet the same design specifications as the wheels made for rover. Additional testing is planned to validate the design and fabrication method before using this technology for future lunar or Mars rovers or considering it for other space applications, such as large structural components.
VIPER is a rover set to launch to the Moon in 2024 to map ice and other potential resources at the south pole of the Moon. The mission is intended to help determine the origin and distribution of the Moon’s water and whether enough could be collected from the Moon’s surface to support people living and working there.
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