Astrobotic opens Pittsburgh HQ
September 21, 2008 by david.gump
Astrobotic Technology
opens Pittsburgh headquarters
PITTSBURGH, PA – Sept. 21, 2008 – Astrobotic Technology Inc., a company founded to provide robotic services on the lunar frontier, has opened its headquarters office in Pittsburgh.
Astrobotic intends to win the Google Lunar X Prize by landing a rover on the Moon by May 2010 near the historic Apollo 11 site. Subsequent lunar missions will build a long-term business of robotic scouting and development activities for national space agencies, corporations, foundations and the media.
The company’s business team is located across the street from Carnegie Mellon University at the corner of Forbes Avenue and Craig Street in facilities made available by the Idea Foundry. Technical development of Moon robots has been under way at the university since late 2007 at the Field Robotics Center of the Robotics Institute. Astrobotic Technology has licensed select robotics technology from Carnegie Mellon and will develop additional intellectual property directly.
The company also has a teaming agreement with Raytheon Company to exploit certain of its precision propulsion and precision navigation technologies in the development of a lunar landing platform. Astrobotic intends to partner with the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at The University of Arizona for mission planning and operations expertise.
The company’s address is 4551 Forbes Avenue, Suite 300, Pittsburgh, PA 15213; telephone 412-683-DATA.
