ELO2 Consortium supports Australia's lunar rover

"𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵, 𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦. 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘳, 𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳." This week the ELO2 Consortium hands to the Australian Space Agency a rigorously tested design for Australia's first lunar rover. ELO2 Consortium's innovative team have delivered four lunar rover prototypes in a 12 month period. These have been designed, manufactured and tested here in Australia with the collaborative effort of around fifty of Australia's most talented scientists and engineers. Australia's unique environmental challenges have helped it become a world leader in 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀. The Moon to Mars Trailblazer Program has enabled ELO2 to bring the best of of Australia's expert and creative teams from universities and industry to further advance that leadership for terrestrial and space domains. Our team's experts come from disciplines including #space, #robotics, radiation protection, thermal protection, edge #computing, #renewable #power generation and management, #materials science, #lunar robotics, #sensing, GPS-denied #navigation, #artificialintelligence, #autonomoussystems, #mining and #resources, additive #manufacturing, human-machine teaming, #communications, #education, marketing, #innovation, #commercialisation and #strategy. 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙤𝙣, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩 𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙛𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙣𝙤𝙬. Some key outcomes delivered by ELO2 for Australia since April 2023: 1. Creation of around 20 new full time jobs, mainly for young engineers 2. Generated over $1M in Foreign Direct Investment into Australia, growing the economy 3. Spent around 99% of our budget in Australia, with Australian organisations 4. We've started commercialising the new technologies into Australian industries including #mining and #defence 5. We demonstrated our prototype performing mission operations in regional South Australia while being operated remotely from Colorado USA. As ELO2 Consortium Director and on behalf of EPE. Trusted To Protect I would like to congratulate everyone who has supported and contributed to our team's outcomes, and thank the Australian Space Agency for enabling the activities with their funding. Thanks especially to Technical Director Joseph Kenrick and our co-lead team at Lunar Outpost, and effort and investment of consortium partners Element Robotics, University of Adelaide, RMIT University, University of Melbourne, The Australian National University, Colorado School of Mines, Inovor Technologies, One Giant Leap Australia Foundation, Vipac Engineers & Scientists, Titomic, BHP, Northrop Grumman Australia. Kealy Narelle Henry Ian Warwick Justin Andrew Austin Kathie Robbie Jacob Rob Adam John Miles Jessica Sam Keegan Department of Industry, Science and Resources