“You’d like to think of space hardware as cutting edge, the very best. No, no, you can’t do that.” On MER, the only computer on board the whole vehicle is the one inside the rove ...

In the early 1970s, the American space program ... and the project’s computer was an extremely obsolete DEC PDP-1. We are treated to an in-depth description of the rover and its somewhat arcane ...

Venus hasn’t received nearly the same attention from space programs as Mars ... triple-rollers in front of the rover, which trigger inputs on the mechanical computer when it encounters an ...

The Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission, carrying MIT payloads, is set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ... a thumb-sized mini-rover, and a record with ...