Der erste australische Mondrover, Roo-ver, wird vom ELO2-Konsortium hergestellt und von der NASA gestartet

# In short:

ELO2 Consortium has been selected to design, create and operate Australia’s first lunar robot, Roo-ver. 

Roo-ver will collect lunar soil to be tested for oxygen and water.

# What’s next? 

Roo-ver is expected to head to the Moon later this decade.

# Short snippet from the article:

Roo-ver will be a little robot with a big mission. 

The 20-odd kilogram robot will head to the Moon in the latter half of this decade to collect lunar soil, known as regolith.

The Roo-ver prototype was [unveiled in Adelaide this year](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-24/mining-oxygen-and-metals-on-the-moon/103625540) and the completed project is set to be Australia’s first lunar rover.

Australian Space Industry head Enrico Palermo said establishing a sustainable human presence on the Moon was a major focus for the space community.

„If we can analyse it, we can understand if there’s oxygen, if there’s water in it,“ he said.

„That’s going to sustain human presence on the Moon.“

The Australian Government has invested $42 million into the mission and NASA has agreed to then take the robot to the Moon.

ELO2 Consortium has been chosen to design, build and operate Roo-ver.

The consortium features 21 organisations and is co-led by Brisbane company EPE and the Melbourne arm of US aviation and aerospace company, Lunar Outpost.

It was one of two consortiums which created a prototype, alongside Perth-based AROSE.

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