# Curiosity Rover: robot model

Canonical ID: `ce7496ca-6012-4498-9a08-e6b2438751a8`

- **Slug:** curiosity-rover
- **Form factor:** space
- **Maturity stage:** production
- **Lifecycle:** active
- **Deployments registered:** 1

## Specs

- **role:** Mars rover
- **landed:** 2012-08-06
- **autonomy:** onboard AutoNav hazard avoidance; ground-selected targets/routes

## Deployments

- [curiosity-mars-gale-crater](/deployments/curiosity-mars-gale-crater.md) at Mars (id: `103f94bb-87b4-4bdc-9ecc-8d0cf7571cf8`)

## Supply chain

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this model's suppliers._

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## Common questions

### What is Curiosity Rover?

NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover (landed 2012-08-06, operating). Drives with onboard AutoNav (think-while-driving terrain assessment and autonomous hazard avoidance); ground operators select daily targets and routes, the rover handles the traverse. Autonomous navigation, NOT autonomous mission planning.

### Who makes Curiosity Rover?

Curiosity Rover is made by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, based in Pasadena, California, USA, founded in 1936.

### Where is Curiosity Rover deployed?

1 verified deployment of Curiosity Rover is on the DEPLOY registry, including at Mars.

### What is Curiosity Rover's maturity stage?

Curiosity Rover is at the production stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Production stage means high-volume manufacture and commercial-scale deployments are sustained.


## Sources (2)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_(rover)
2. https://science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-curiosity/

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