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GMV Field Tests New ESA Software in Fuerteventura: a Giant Leap for Rover Speed

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The technology multinational GMV completed a test campaign on 8 October in Lajares, a village in the municipality of La Oliva, Fuerteventura, for an on-board autonomy framework comprising a matured Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) system, FASTNAV, and a new, AI-enabled perception subsystem, called HAWKEYE, which uses on-board inference to...
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The Spanish technology group GMV has tested on the Canary Island of Fuerteventura a European Space Agency (ESA) software that allows rovers or astromobiles - vehicles designed to move autonomously or manned on the surface of a planet, moon or other astronomical object in order to explore the [...] The GMV entry tests in Fuerteventura an ESA software that allows lunar rovers to move faster appears first in Forbes Spain.

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GMV tests in Fuerteventura an ESA system with key artificial intelligence for future lunar rovers.

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The race to conquer the terrestrial satellite has entered a decisive phase and the technology developed in Europe is called to play a decisive role. In a scenario that evokes the most inhospitable landscapes of space, the multinational technology GMV has successfully completed an ambitious testing campaign in Fuerteventura. The main objective [...] La entrada España successfully tests the technology that will guide the next SUVs on the Moon apar…

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After the white sand, the Cañada de Melián and the indelible footprint of the volcanoes are erected a landscape that today serves as a stage in the future space race. Through the desert that surrounds the town of Lajares, in Fuerteventura, a small zigzaguea robot through the impracticable terrain trying to evade volcanic pyroclasts, small shrubs and some other unevenness as precisely as possible. It does so without anyone telling you where to go…

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UKspace broke the news on Thursday, October 8, 2026.
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