火星上的Skypersonic无人机？NASA惊艳世人的模拟火星生活任务

Skypersonic公司为NASA的模拟火星生活任务提供无人机，无人车和驾驶服务平台  

Skypersonic Delivers Drones, Rover, and Piloting Platform to NASA’s Simulated Mars Missions  

Skypersonic公司是红猫控股 [NASDAQ:RCAT]的子公司，是AdvisorShares无人机技术ETF [NYSE ARCA:UAV]的股东之一。AdvisorShares无人机技术ETF是专门针对无人机经济的一种主题投资策略，旨在获取无人机和自动驾驶汽车（AV）的投资增长机会。

Skypersonic is a subsidiary of Red Cat Holdings [NASDAQ:RCAT] one of the holdings in the AdvisorShares Drone Technology ETF [NYSE ARCA:UAV], the only ETF dedicated to the drone economy. The AdvisorShares Drone Technology ETF is a thematic investment strategy seeking to capture the growth opportunities in drones and autonomous vehicles (AV).   

Skypersonic公司宣布，他们最近向美国国家航空航天局（NASA）交付了一个无人车和无人机系统的硬件和软件，NASA的模拟火星生活任务的工作人员将会使用该系统远程探索地球周围类似火星的地形——所有这些都在位于德克萨斯州休斯顿的约翰逊航天中心，1700平方英尺的模拟火星栖息地进行。

Skypersonic has announced that it recently delivered to NASA the hardware and software for a rover and drone system that the crew members of NASA’s Simulated Mars Missions will use to remotely explore Martian-like terrain around Earth – all from their 1,700-square-foot simulated Martian habitat at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. 

最近，Skypersonic公司的这个无人系统被放在一座活火山上，测试表明他们适合在火星上具有挑战性的环境中使用。 

The Skypersonic drone and rover system were recently tested on an active volcano, demonstrating their suitability for use in the challenging environment found on Mars.  

在极具吸引力的项目中，模拟火星生活任务的CHAPEA工作人员将在约翰逊航天中心的栖息地生活和工作一年，该栖息地是为了模拟红色星球生活而设计和建造的。“Skypersonic公司的无人机和无人车将被送往地球上的一个与火星地形类似的区域——例如沙漠或山区——在那里将会由在休斯顿的工作人员远程控制机器。该演习是为了测试火星上宇航员用无人系统远程探索星球的能力，”报道称。

In a fascinating project, crew members of the Simulated Mars MissionsCHAPEA, will spend one year living and working in a habitat at Johnson Space Center that has been designed and built to simulate life on the Red Planet. “The Skypersonic drones and rover will be taken to an area on Earth that is similar to Martian terrain – such as a desert or mountainous region – where they will be controlled remotely by crew members in Houston. The exercise is designed to test the ability of astronauts on Mars to remotely explore the planet with drones and rovers,” says the release.   

交付给休斯顿的硬件和软件系统在2022年的8月份得到了验证，当时驻扎在约翰逊航天中心NASA的工作人员在埃特纳山脉——坐落于数千英里外类似火星环境的意大利活火山，控制着Skypersonic公司的无人机和无人车。埃特纳山脉，不仅地表像火星，而且没有GPS信号。这让NASA工作人员可以洞察到技术如何在火星的表面上实现。因为他们独有的远程驾驶技术不依赖于GPS，Skypersonic公司能够驾驶，事实上，他们控制的无人机或者无人车能够在世界的任何地方甚至是地球以外被定位。

The hardware and software delivered to Houston were proven in August 2022, when NASA personnel stationed at the Johnson Space Center controlled the Skypersonic drones and rover on the Martian-like environment of Mt. Etna, an active volcano thousands of miles away in Italy. Not only was the surface of the volcano like that of Mars, but there is no GPS signal on Mt. Etna, which gave NASA personnel insight into how the technology would perform on a Martian surface. Because its proprietary remote piloting technology doesn’t rely on GPS, Skypersonic allows pilots, and the drones or rovers they control, to be located virtually anywhere in the world – or out of this world.  

“最近的这次的交付是我们与NASA签订的这五年合同中最新的里程碑，我们期待未来几年与模拟火星生活任务的工作人员紧密合作，共同开发和测试可以在火星上被人类使用的初代无人系统原型。我们面临的挑战是巨大的——极度稀薄的大气层，变幻莫测的冷空气，大量的未知的环境——但是我很自信在这个过程中我们将会战胜困难并促进产业科学”Skypersonic的首席执行官 Giuseppe Santangelo说道。

 “This recent delivery is the latest milestone in our five-year contract with NASA to provide drone and rover hardware, software, and support to the Simulated Mars Missions. We look forward to working closely with the Simulated Mars Missions crews in the coming years to develop and test the prototype of the first drones and rovers to be used by humans on Mars. The challenges are great – extremely thin atmosphere, dramatically cold temperatures, a largely unknown environment – but I am confident we will prevail and advance the science of our industry in the process,” said Skypersonic CEO Giuseppe Santangelo.