LANCASTER, Pa. — After being contracted by NASA, a small Lancaster County company is on a mission to the moon. “It’s not often that in Lancaster we’re building space flight hardware that is going to a moon,” said Bryan Muzyka, the vice president of sales and marketing.
For more than four years, engineers at ACT have been hard at work to help develop NASA’s next lunar rover nicknamed Viper. Viper is an acronym for“It’s going to be the first rover, the first space vehicle, to ever map out where and how we could possibly extract water in the future,” Muzyka described.The moon’s south pole is the coldest of its surface. Without proper temperature management, Viper’s electronics could malfunction.
“At the end of the day we dotted all the i’s, crossed all the t’s, went through a lot of technical and analytical calculations as well as hardware prototyping and testing,” Muzyka said.US pandas set to return to China, ending 50 years of animal diplomacyWPMT would like to send you push notifications about the latest news and weather.