The winner from two bids shortlisted to deliver Australia’s first lunar rover has been announced, with the ELO2 Consortium named on Tuesday to design, construct, test and operate the vehicle dubbed “Roo-ver”. The consortium to deliver Moon to Mars Initiative’s Trailblazer Stage 2 is led by EPE Oceania and Lunar Outpost Oceania and includes SMEs,…
Smart sensor manufacturer Infinity Avionics has been contracted by entX Limited to design and manufacture parts of their Radioisotope Heater Unit (RHU) Demonstrator Payload designed to provide heat to spacecraft during the lunar night. An RHU is a novel thermal solution for interplanetary space missions that will revolutionise future rover and lander missions, with Infinity…
Lunar rover prototypes built by the ELO2 Consortium – led by EPE and Lunar Outpost Oceania – are on a tour of the nation, following the March unveiling in Adelaide of three vehicles built by the team. ELO2 is one of two teams vying to build the nation’s first lunar rover, along with the AROSE…
Australian freelancing marketplace Freelancer.com and space consortium ELO2 announced the phase one winners of a challenge to design a sampling device for Lunar soil, known as regolith. The ELO2 Big Dipper Lunar Regolith Acquisition Challenge was set up to identify designs of a Regolith Sample Acquisition Device, a crucial component of a proposed Australian lunar…
On the day one of the two teams competing to build Australia’s first lunar rover has unveiled their prototype design, the name of the eventual winner’s vehicle has been announced as Roo-ver. The Australian Space Agency made an invitation to individuals and schools to submit their naming suggestions in September. A shortlist of four names…
First Australian companies and innovators were challenged to design a rover vehicle that will run on the Moon. Now a second challenge has been announced by marketplace Freelancer.com and ELO2 to design a mechanical sampling arm for the rover – the ELO2 Big Dipper Lunar Regolith Acquisition Challenge. The Australian Space Agency, in collaboration with…
The consortium behind Australia’s first lunar rover, ELO2 is inviting space enthusiasts to design a system to collect soil from the Moon and deposit it at a NASA run facility in a competition running into next year. The ELO2 Big Dipper Regolith Acquisition Challenge is seeking from creators to seasoned engineers to contribute to identifying…