The Omega Envoy Project - the team of Florida students located at the University of Central Florida is proud to announce that it their rover will include Honeybee Robotics payload. The team is competing in the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a contest that will award some $30 million to the first privately funded team that sends a robot to the moon, maneuver 500 meters around the lunar regolith and transmit data, video and imagery back to Earth.
With this new partnership between OE and Honeybee Robotics, the qualitative level of involvement in the Omega Envoy project has just been taken up a launch. Honeybee Robotics was involved with one of the most successful robotic exploration efforts in history – the Mars Exploration Rovers. The company has also contributed to the Mars Phoenix Lander mission and is working on elements of the Mars Science Laboratory – better known as the rover Curiosity.
The Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms Corporation was established in 1983 and is an ISO 9001/AS9100-certified, JPL-approved supplier of flight hardware that customizes mechanisms, electro-mechanical components for spacecraft for a wide-range of space missions. There can be little doubt that Honeybee is a world leader in developing planetary sample gathering and manipulation equipment and has greatly contributed to space exploration.
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