Nissan will work on the moon rover with Sierra Space and Teledyne Brown Engineering. Nissan North America will provide production facilities and will also be responsible for autonomous driving systems and intelligent systems – that is, the device will be completely self-sufficient.
According to Maarten Serhuis, director of Nissan’s Alliance Innovation Laboratory in Silicon Valley, nothing will stop them from transferring these technologies to cars in the lineup. Nissan
“Through this collaboration, we will explore the possibilities of autonomous systems and remote control, energy management systems, human-machine interface. Then we will apply this knowledge to make cars on Earth.”
Teledyne Brown Engineering and Sierra Space have extensive spacecraft experience. The first company built a prototype moon rover in the 1960s. Therefore, its specialists are responsible for software, design, production, integration of systems into a single network, operation and creation of the power system for the lunar rover.
Sierra Space also provides the lunar rover’s software, mechanisms, communications system, guidance and navigation. Arctic Cat (a subsidiary of Textron Specialized Vehicles) will be responsible for the chassis and engine.
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