The announcement has been made at the 37th Space Symposium held in Colorado Springs and the project has Teledyne Brown Engineering and Sierra Space. This represents another step in Nissan North America’s commitment to space mobility.
The US subsidiary of Nissan Motor Company intends to further deepen its knowledge in space matters and, after launching last December a prototype of electric lunar rover With technology coming from the Nissan Ariya, it is now embarking on a new project in collaboration with two American companies already experienced in this field.
We are talking about Teledyne Brown Engineering and Sierra Space. The first is specialized in technology suitable for harsh environments and was responsible for building the prototype of Dr. Wernher von Braun’s lunar rover in the 1960s. Likewise, she collaborates with NASA’s Artemis program through the design and manufacture of the first of three stage adapters for the spacecraft. launch of the SLS, which will launch for the first time this summer.
Nissan North America, Inc. will bring a legacy of automotive design, innovation and capability to the project
As for Sierra Space, it is responsible for supplying the LIFE habitat to support astronauts and their scientific experiments in space. His latest vehicle, the dream chaserwill perform cargo supply and return missions for NASA to the International Space Station, and has much more ambitious plans for manned spaceflight with the vehicle and even a space station.
Nissan’s contribution
Nissan North America, Inc. will bring a legacy of automotive design, innovation and capability to the project. The automaker offers a “In-depth knowledge of autonomous driving and intelligent vehicle systems as a cornerstone for safer, seamless and integrated technology as it powers the future of mobility.”
Teledyne, Sierra Space and Nissan thus present their new space project.
With four manufacturing plants in the United States capable of producing 1 million vehicles; 1.4 million engines; 1.4 million forgings and 456,000 castings a year, “Nissan remains committed to investing, manufacturing and creating jobs in America, employing more than 20,000 people at facilities across the country” .
“Participation in this project enables the extension of our industry’s technology and design capabilities to space technology, and vice versa,” said Maarten Sierhuis, global director of the Nissan Alliance Innovation Lab in Silicon Valley. , Calif. “With this association, we will be able to explore the possibilities of autonomy and teleoperations, energy management systems, vehicle connectivity and human-machine interface to help shape the future of intelligent lunar rovers. We will then translate these learnings from the LTV operating on the lunar surface to Earth.”
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