Spaceflight 🚀<p>📆 13 July 2023 The <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>US</span></a> 🇺🇸 first remote-controlled <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rover" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rover</span></a> won’t be sent by <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NASA</span></a>, or <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpaceX</span></a>, or some other large <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SpaceAgency" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpaceAgency</span></a> or company. The rover is called <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Iris" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Iris</span></a>, and it’s largely the work of <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>students</span></a> 👩🎓 at <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CarnegieMellon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CarnegieMellon</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/University" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>University</span></a>, in Pittsburgh. Mission managers estimate that 300 students have spent the equivalent of a <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/century" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>century</span></a> in work-hours on the rover since it began in 📆 2017. <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/moon-rover" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">spectrum.ieee.org/moon-rover</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Iris" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Iris</span></a> <a href="https://www.ri.cmu.edu/robot/iris" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">ri.cmu.edu/robot/iris</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br /><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/MoonRanger" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MoonRanger</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>water</span></a> 💧 search <a href="https://www.ri.cmu.edu/project/moon-ranger" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">ri.cmu.edu/project/moon-ranger</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> | <a href="https://youtu.be/AlvfVrmF7pE" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/AlvfVrmF7pE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>