May 2021, Lunar Outpost announces our first Lunar Rover is headed to the lunar South Pole in 2025. The Lunar Outpost line of Rovers provides humanity access to other planetary bodies, including the Moon and Mars. This first mission is fully commercial, funded by Lunar Outpost and through commercial partnerships with Intuitive Machines, Nokia, MIT, NASA, LSA and others.
This mission was enabled by notable technological advancements that drove the cost of planetary rovers down by orders of magnitude enabling commercial partners to self-fund and utilize Public Private Partnerships to book payload space on the Lunar Outpost MAPP rover.
Mission Overview
Lunar Outpost will have the first commercial rover on the Moon in human history and the first rover ever at the lunar South Pole. This provides an opportunity for us to explore where no one has ever gone while collecting critical data that will enable NASA Artemis and ESA astronauts to explore the Moon this decade.
The South Pole of the Moon is one of the most strategically valuable locations in our Solar System. Rich with resources and home to Peak's of Eternal Light; this location is seen as an ideal spot for Astronauts to visit and one day inhabit.
Bottom Line: Lunar Outpost will design, build, test and launch a rover to the Moon in record time and for orders of magnitude less cost than anyone else can provide. The Lunar Outpost Rover lineup provides game-changing technology that enables the future of the space economy.
The Lunar Outpost rover will be launching in February 2025. Upon Mission completion, Lunar Outpost will be the only commercial company worldwide to ever have driven on another planetary body. Lunar Outpost will work with its commercial and scientific partners to maximize our learnings from the mission and pave the way for large scale operations on other planetary bodies.
Key data collected will include mobility, thermal, radiation, geologic, prospecting, visual, mapping, and communications performance data.
Learn more: https://www.lunaroutpost.com/lunar-voyage-1
