Another hopping robot called the Lunar Leaper is being developed using the data and engineering from Spacehopper. This second robot could be sent to the Moon as a part of the ESA’s lunar mission.
The researchers who are developing the Lunar Leaper alongside the 8 students from Zürich are planning to use their craft to explore a pit with a sub-surface lava tube attached to it.
Asteroid exploration has been a developing area of research as astrogeologists hope to gather data that can help them track the history of our universe. Spacehopper can help to further human understanding of complex microgravity environments and explore the geology of asteroids.
Determining the origins of interstellar objects and tracking their trajectory through space can give scientists insight into the physics of the universe as well as the origins of material deposited on other objects they collide with.
Source: Spacehopper
