Ceres Robotics Inc. is a private, commercial company dedicated to the development and manufacturing of robotic
lunar landers and
rovers.
In November 2019, Ceres Robotics was granted the right to bid on contracts by NASA's
Commercial Lunar Payload Services
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) is a NASA program to contract transportation services able to send small robotic landers and rovers to the Moon's south polar region mostly with the goals of scouting for lunar resources, testing in sit ...
(CLPS) to support the lunar
Artemis program
The Artemis program is a robotic and human Moon exploration program led by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) along with three partner agencies: European Space Agency (ESA), Japan Aerospace Exploration Age ...
.
The company was founded in 2017
[ by Michael Sims, who was previously vice president at ]Moon Express
Moon Express (MoonEx; vehicle model prefix: MX) is an American privately held early-stage company formed in 2010 by a group of Silicon Valley and space entrepreneurs. It had the goal of winning the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize, and of ultimatel ...
, and for more than 20 years worked at NASA, where he worked on Mars rover missions. Sims was also a founding member of the NASA Ames Artificial Intelligence group and its field robotics program, the Intelligent Robotics Group.Michael SimsFounder and CEO, Ceres Robotics.
Future in Review. Accessed on 6 December 2019.
Products
Ceres Robotics is a
New Space company dedicated to the development and manufacturing of robotic
lunar landers,
rovers and software systems in support of surface exploration.
; Current products:
*''CR3 Rover''
References
Aerospace companies of the United States
Companies based in California
Private spaceflight companies
Commercial Lunar Payload Services
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