Created: 2019-01-22
Updated: 2024-07-30
Company - Lunar Outpost
Product/Service - MAPP, HL-MAPP
- Classification
- Surface Spacecraft
- Category
- Commercial Rover
Surface Habitats
ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)
Software & Mission Control
- Fields
- Lunar Rover
Moon
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- 2024
- Partners
- MIT, Lockheed Martin
- About the size of a thumb, the RESOURCE Camera will generate 3-D images of different lunar points of interest.
- The second payload is the AstroAnt, a miniature rover the size of a matchbox that will drive atop the MAPP rover and take contactless measurements of the rover’s radiator.
- Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP): The first debuted commercial lunar prospector, a robotic vehicle designed to explore and investigate key resources and characteristics on lunar surfaces. In 2023, the MAPP rover will provide mobility too Nokia’s LTE/4G with Intuitive Machines to build, integrate and test the first-ever LTE/4G network on the surface of the Moon. MAPP was also selected by NASA’s PRISM program for the Lunar Vertex Mission to the Moon in partnership with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to explore the mysterious Reiner Gamma region of the lunar surface in early 2024.
- Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE): Humanity’s first-ever successful demonstration of how space resources can be used to fuel further exploration in space and sustain human life on another planet. MOXIE contributed to the first demonstration of space resource utilization on another planet by creating oxygen from the atmosphere of Mars.
- Canary Industrial-Grade Environmental Monitors: Continuous smart IoT devices customizable for PM 2.5, tVOC, O3, NO2, CH4, CO, meteorological data and much more. Lunar Outpost is currently producing and operating thousands of Canary devices that have collected over 35 billion data points through its web-based Canary dashboard.
- We will be providing our Stargate mission command and control software for vehicle teleoperation as well as contributing to vehicle navigation, thermal management, lighting and dust mitigation.
- We are in good company with teammates such as General Motors, MDA, and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.
Lunar Outpost Awarded a STRATFI Contract, 2024-03-11.
- Lunar Outpost has been awarded a STRATFI contract with SpaceWERX, the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force, for our Mobile Autonomous Robotic Swarms (MARS) software layer!
- Originally developed on contract with AFRL Center for Rapid Innovation and AFWERX, MARS is a software product that enables advanced robotic systems and spacecraft to act as autonomous swarms. MARS, as a portable software layer, allows for any capable system to effectively carry out missions as part of a wider fleet, increasing mission responsiveness, resiliency, and adaptability.
MAPP (Vertex)
- The event marks a major milestone for the company, a proof point of their commercial viability in the emerging cislunar economy, proving they’re capable of delivering a highly capable, cost-effective lunar rover in record time.
- Since July 2021, Lunar Outpost has been developing the Lunar Vertex MAPP rover for a 2024 NASA-funded science and exploration mission to the near-equatorial Reiner Gamma site, through the NASA Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM) call for proposals.
- The Lunar Vertex MAPP rover will carry a suite of science instruments consisting of a vector magnetometer developed by APL and a multispectral microscope, with the aim of testing hypotheses for the origin of swirls and the origin of the magnetic anomaly. The MAPP rover’s versatility lends itself to this mission with its high payload mass fraction, long drive distances, and ability to accommodate a wide range of instrument and environmental requirements.
Lunar Outpost Delivers First Flight Model Rover in Record Time, 2023-08-07.
- Lunar Outpost, Inc. has delivered its first flight model rover, the Lunar Vertex Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP), to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, for integration and final testing.
- The Lunar Vertex MAPP rover will carry a suite of science instruments consisting of a vector magnetometer developed by APL and a multispectral microscope, with the aim of testing hypotheses for the origin of swirls and the origin of the magnetic anomaly.
HL-MAPP
HL-MAPP (Heavy-Lift MAPP), is 300 kg of pure force, designed to provide mobility services to a wide variety of science, instruments, and commercial payloads while covering vast distances on the lunar surface.
- Total Mass: 300kg
- Payload Mass Fraction: 27%
- Top Speed: 30cm/s
- Dimensions: 1.7 x 1.4 x 1.2m
MOXIE
MOXIE is humanity’s first ever successful demonstration of how space resources can be used to fuel further exploration in space and sustain human life on another planet.
- Total Mass: 17.1kg
- Power: 300W
- Oxygen Production: Up to 10g per hour
- Dimensions: 23.9 x 23.9 x 30.9 cm
As part of a team led by NASA and MIT, Lunar Outpost plays an integral role in this ground-breaking project through:
- Assistance with design of MOXIE mechanical and electrical subsystems.
- Development of the MOXIE calibration and characterization plan.
- Contribution to the models used to simulate potential experimental runs.
- Assistance in design of the parameter set points operational runs on Mars.
- Support of MOXIE operations and service in the Payload UpLink (PUL) role to prepare MOXIE commands to send to Perseverance.
- Support for future experiment planning and design.
Australia’s First Lunar Rover
- In Phase 1 of the challenge, the objective is to design a Regolith Sample Acquisition Device that can be attached to an Australian designed rover for the collection of lunar soil (regolith) and deposit at an In-situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU) facility run by NASA.
- Phase 2 will provide the opportunity to integrate what is learnt from feedback and testing of Phase 1 winning designs into a set of design recommendations that will be useful for implementation.
- Up to 10 designs will be chosen as winning submissions in this phase, to share in a prize pool of $15,000 during the first phase. Winners of Phase 2 will share in a prize pool of $3,000.
Status Comment / Notes
MAPP is scheduled for Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission, planned for mid-2024 as of late 2023.
Product/Service - ARAM
- Classification
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Category
- In-Space Manufacturing
In-Space Assembly
Robotic Arm
On-Orbit Servicing
- Fields
- Large Space Structures
In-Space Satellite Servicing
On-Orbit Servicing
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- 2024
Status Comment / Notes
Created: 2023-08-17
Updated: 2024-03-02
News, Research, Projects and Patents
| Title | Type | Date | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Selects Companies to Collect Lunar Resources for Artemis Demonstrations | News | 2020-12-03 | > NASA has selected four companies to collect space resources and transfer ownership to the agency: Lunar Outpost of Golden, Colorado; Masten Space Systems of Mojave, California; ispace Europe of Luxembourg; and ispace Japan of Tokyo. Overall, the new NASA contracts with these companies totals $25,001. |
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