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Lunar Regolith Lab for Rover Testing Unveiled by Astrobotic

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Tom Patton
Nov 19, 2021
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A new Lunar Regolith Lab is open at the Astrobotic headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA. This test facility is one of only a handful in the United States filled with industry-standard GRC-1 “regolith simulant”, or granules, designed to mimic the lunar surface. Filled with more than 42,000 pounds of this mechanical equivalent of lunar terrain, the lab is used …

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