Lunar Outpost Announces New Space Collaboration with Castrol on Lunar Mission
2024年8月16日 - 12:20AM
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Lunar Outpost is thrilled to name Castrol the
lead Mission Control Center collaborator for its Lunar Voyage 1
mission
Today, Lunar Outpost named Castrol the lead Mission Control
Center collaborator for its Lunar Voyage 1 mission. The Mission
Control Center will be the primary center of operations and
decision-making during Lunar Outpost’s Lunar Voyage 1 (LV1), slated
to launch in late 2024.
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Lunar Outpost’s LV1 mission will land at Shackleton Connecting
Ridge near the lunar South Pole aboard Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C
lander. The Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover
will be the first to travel to this previously unexplored region of
the Moon. The Mission Control Center will be the nexus of planning,
decision-making, and control during the traverse. Control center
operators will issue commands and monitor autonomous functions to
guide the MAPP rover through its journey across a challenging
environment with low sun angles, pitch-black shadows, and hazardous
craters. The Mission Control Center will also play a critical role
in monitoring and operating diverse commercial customer payloads
onboard the rover.
"Our collaboration with Castrol reflects a shared vision for
future lunar missions and commitment to push the limits of
exploration," said Justin Cyrus, CEO at Lunar Outpost. "Castrol has
worked with NASA since the first Apollo missions. Having the
expertise of industry leaders with space heritage will not only
support our commercial goals for Lunar Voyage 1 but will also help
the space industry thrive.”
Castrol has over seven decades of experience supporting progress
in the space industry with a rich heritage of working alongside
innovative space companies like Lunar Outpost. This collaboration
is a part of Castrol’s initiative, Castronomy™, which promotes
advancements in space mobility through collaborations with today’s
innovators. The goal of the collaboration between Lunar Outpost and
Castrol is to maximize operational success, through an evolution of
standard mission control.
"Castrol has been working with the space industry providing
lubricants for critical mechanisms for over 60 years. Successful
missions depend on the coming together of experts, pioneers and
visionaries. At Castrol we call these space collaborations
Castronomy™. We are thrilled to announce a new collaboration with
Lunar Outpost, a truly visionary team pushing the limits of
technological advancement and space exploration,” said Nicola Buck,
Chief Marketing Officer, Castrol.
The Mission Control Center plays a vital role in achieving many
notable firsts for humanity, including:
- The first rover at the lunar South Pole region
- The first commercial rover on another planetary body
- The first commercial sale of space resources in human
history
- The first cellular network on another planetary body
About Lunar Outpost
Lunar Outpost is the industry leader in lunar surface mobility,
commercial space robotics, and space resources. From our
terrestrial product lines revolutionizing the air quality sector on
Earth to the creation of oxygen on Mars, our impact spans the solar
system. Lunar Outpost’s exploration class rover, the Mobile
Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP), will be the first
commercial rover on the Moon and the first rover in history to
explore the lunar South Pole.
Since our founding in 2017, Lunar Outpost has raised Venture
Capital from top-tier investors and continues to attract strong
investment partners as we continue to prove the opportunity that
advanced mobility, robotics and autonomy provide to the new space
economy and here on Earth. In 2021, Lunar Outpost announced that
our commercially funded MAPP rover was scheduled for delivery by an
Intuitive Machines lander to the lunar South Pole. Lunar Outpost
has since secured two additional contracted lunar surface missions,
and leads the Lunar Dawn team, the leading consortium to create a
true off-road vehicle for Artemis Astronauts living and working on
the Moon’s surface. In addition to the missions above, Lunar
Outpost has also won a contract with the Australian Space Agency to
design and develop a lunar rover for Australia’s first mission to
the Moon as part of the Trailblazer program.
With over a dozen active contracts across commercial, defense
and civil space, Lunar Outpost is The Next Leap that will enable
humanity to become interplanetary.
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