Space Exploration Robots

This electric robot relies on cameras sensors lots of motors and two computers.

Space exploration robots. Many scientists believe robots not humans will make the next great discoveries in space. Outer planets such as saturn uranus and neptun. Nasa nasa tests robots for exploration in areas called analogs.

There are thousands of robots that make space exploration possible. A robotic spacecraft is an uncrewed spacecraft usually under telerobotic control. The first robot ever sent to space was sputnik 1 sent by the ussr on october 4 1957 according to nasa.

Nasa national aeronautics and space administration robots are robotic devices used to aid augment or substitute for astronauts in order to do difficult or rote tasks such as repairs in dangerous environments such as those with radiation or micrometeorite risks routine procedures video capture etc. Astronauts do still explore space. This is because man does not yet live long enough to travel the vast distances involved to be able to explore planets for himself as a visitor and cryogenics is not advanced enough to freeze and thaw humans at the end of a long journey though this is technology that may one day yield results.

Many space missions are more suited to telerobotic rather than crewed operation due to lower cost and lower risk factors. In addition some planetary destinations such as venus or the vicinity of jupiter are too hostile for human survival given current technology. By these robots lakdawalla means the various robotic probes that have flown past planets moons and asteroids orbiting some landing on others.

Before astronauts were sent to the moon a series of surveyor spacecraft soft landed on the lunar surface between 1966 and 1968. Standing only 13 inches 34 centimeters tall the robot was. Robots and unmanned space exploration robotic spacecraft are especially useful in space exploration where distances are too long and environments too hostile and dangerous to send humans.

The launch of sputnik 1 marked the beginning of the notorious space race between the united states and the ussr. Space exploration depends on robots and automation. Whether walking tumbling flying or rolling robots have a major role to play in space exploration.