The robotic Griffin lunar lander has passed a host of critical tests ahead of its first-ever moon mission, which is scheduled to launch later this year.
The Griffin-1 module of Voyager Technologies passed a series of environmental tests in the JPL that simulated lunar travel conditions. The mission, scheduled to take off at the end of this year, would carry scientific and technological load to a site near the south pole of the Moon. *** Griffin-1 completed temperature, vibration and sound testing in a 7.6 metre wide space simulator of the JPL. The launch mission of the allunizer is scheduled for…