Cybrog TV & Moon Mining.

Private balloon space craft hybrid television advertisements The life sized working prototype of the Polaris rover that could mine the moon in 2015 The Polaris rover is 5 ½ feet tall, 7 feet wide and almost 8 feet long. Moon comes back into reality for a while driving a profit making industries forty years later it a program that should never been scrapped now Polaris rover will search for ice that can be drilled to stock future moon bases Expected to relay live video from the lunar surface throughout its life showing where fresh moon springs will be located replenishing trusty cyber bases. It can move at about a foot a second on 2-foot-diameter composite wheels. Its suspension will enable the rover to rise up over rough terrain, but also lower itself to the ground to perform drilling.  The rover will weigh 150 kilograms, or about 330 pounds, and can accommodate a drill and science payload of up to 70 kilograms. Polaris is a first of its kind solar-powered robot that will search for potentially rich deposits of water ice on the moon. Observations by NASA and Indian spacecraft suggest that a substantial amount of water ice could exist at the lunar poles. That ice could be a source of water, fuel and oxygen for future expeditions, researchers say. Polaris can bore one meter into the lunar surface and can operate in lunar regions characterized by dark, long shadows and a sun that hugs the horizon.  It has been developed for an expedition to the moon's northern pole that would launch from Cape Canaveral on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle.

Polaris is a flight prototype but has the same configuration as the rover that will eventually land on the moon. It includes a number of flight-worthy components, including wheels and chassis beams constructed of light, but tough composite materials. This will enable Astronautic team members to spend the coming months testing and improving the robot's computer vision, navigation and planning software, and software that can plot the rover's position on the moon within 10 feet. While Curiosity begins to explore the Martian surface, the moon may soon be home to another rover - and this one plans to mine. Astrobotic Technology today revealed Polaris, a rover it hopes to send to the moon on top of a SpaceX rocket in October 2015. It will search for ice that could help future explorers set up a moon base - and is powered by solat panels that give it the appearance of having a mohawk. Polaris will have a drill capable of getting a metre under the lunar surface to look for sign of ice. The Polaris rover will hunt for ice on the moon that can be mined to help set up moon bases for future explorers. Astrobotic led by CMU's William "Red" Whittaker — develops robotics technology for planetary missions. 'It is the first rover developed specifically for drilling lunar ice' said Whittaker. Other robots built by the Field Robotics Center have developed technologies necessary for lunar drilling, but none of them were ever meant to leave Earth. 'What Polaris does is bring those many ideas together into a rover configuration that is capable of going to the moon to find ice,' Whittaker added.

 To find the ice, a rover must operate as close to the dark poles as possible, but not so far that it can't use solar arrays for power, Whittaker said. Polaris has three large solar arrays, arranged vertically to capture light from low on the horizon.The solar arrays will be capable of an average of 250 watts of electrical power.Polaris also makes use of software, pioneered in CMU's NASA-funded Hyperion robot, that keeps track of the rover's position relative to the sun's rays to maximize solar energy and husbands battery power for use in the long shadows and dark regions found at the poles.The lander being developed to drop the lunar mining rover on the moon's surface Whittaker said the lunar day lasts about 14 Earth days, though only about 10 days are suitable for water prospecting at the poles. The Astrobotic team expects Polaris could drill 10 to 100 holes during that time as it locates and characterizes water ice deposits. Astrobotic, in partnership with CMU, is also vying for the Google Lunar X Prize of more than $20 million. Polaris is one of two Moon rovers under development by Astrobotic in competition for the Google contest, which offers a total of $30m in awards to privately funded projects exploring the Moon. First prize – $20m – will be awarded to the company that can 'safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon, have that robot travel 500 meters over the lunar surface, and send video, images and data back to the Earth.'If Polaris successfully survives the long, frigid lunar nights, as anticipated, the prospecting mission could be extended indefinitely. Astrobotic has won nine lunar contracts from NASA worth $3.6 million, including one to evaluate how Polaris can accommodate NASA's ice-prospecting instruments during a three-mile traverse near the moon's north pole.