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Rocket Lab Will Build Solar Panels for NASA's CADRE Mobile Robots

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Tom Patton
Oct 18, 2022
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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has tapped Rocket Lab to supply solar panels that will power NASA’s shoe-box-sized mobile robots as part of the Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Explorers (CADRE) mobile robots.

“The CADRE program could help map unexplored regions on the Moon and access hard to reach parts of Mars, expanding our understand…

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