{"id":73849,"date":"2017-11-18T08:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T16:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/hopping-r2d2-bot-to-blast-off-to-the-lunar-surface-in-2019"},"modified":"2017-11-18T08:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T16:22:29","slug":"hopping-r2d2-bot-to-blast-off-to-the-lunar-surface-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/hopping-r2d2-bot-to-blast-off-to-the-lunar-surface-in-2019","title":{"rendered":"Hopping \u2018R2D2\u2019 bot to blast off to the lunar surface in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hopping-r2d2-bot-to-blast-off-to-the-lunar-surface-in-2019.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>The MX-1E spacecraft is slated to fly before the end of the year aboard a Rocket Lab Electron booster, which launches from New Zealand and will attempt to win the $20M Google Lunar XPRIZE<\/p>\n<p>The firm is is developing a fleet of low-cost robotic spacecraft that can be assembled like Legos to handle increasingly complex missions.<\/p>\n<p>The initial spacecraft, known as MX-1E, is a similar size and shape to the R2D2 droid from Star Wars, and is slated to fly before next year aboard a Rocket Lab Electron booster, which launches from New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5094173\/The-R2D2-bot-set-moon-win-20M-X-Prize.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5094173\/The-R...Prize.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MX-1E spacecraft is slated to fly before the end of the year aboard a Rocket Lab Electron booster, which launches from New Zealand and will attempt to win the $20M Google Lunar XPRIZE The firm is is developing a fleet of low-cost robotic spacecraft that can be assembled like Legos to handle increasingly complex [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}