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MoonFall hop-drone fleet (JPL)
Built in-house by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory · MoonFall
Four JPL-built propulsive hop drones for MoonFall.
Spec
Recorded mass 249.5 kg.
Schematic
Laser retroreflector, Lunar Dashcam, Neutron spectrometer, Radiation spectrometer, and Survive-the-night payload are the jobs under this set.
Themes: Rovers & hoppers
Walk: MoonFall
Who built it Builder NASA Built in-house by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory In this suite Laser retroreflector array on each MoonFall drone for location, navigation, and potential geophysical experiments. · NASA JPL Lunar Dashcam on each MoonFall drone builds high-resolution digital terrain maps for South Pole Artemis sites, finer than current satellite imagery. · NASA Neutron spectrometer on each MoonFall drone to help measure subsurface water abundance at South Pole scout sites. · NASA Radiation spectrometer on each MoonFall drone to characterize the surface radiation environment for later crew missions. · NASA After the last hop, each drone activates a long-duration survive-the-night payload and can wake to talk to Earth on later lunar days. · NASA Flights MoonFall NET 2028 · Firefly Elytra (drone deploy during descent)