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Moon to Mars Initiative: Trailblazer Stage 1 grant recipients
View a list of applicants that have been offered funding under the Moon to Mars Initiative: Trailblazer Stage 1.
Grant recipients
| Moon to Mars Trailblazer Stage 1 | Project title | Project information | Grant amount (excluding GST) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Remote Operations for Space and Earth Ltd | AROSE Lunar Foundation Services Rover | AROSE will deliver a preliminary design of Australia’s first Lunar Rover which will support NASA’s Artemis program. The Consortium will develop the mission concepts, the mission and system requirements, and the preliminary design of the Lunar Rover guided by NASA and the Australian Space Agency mission objectives. | $4,000,000 |
| Zangold Pty Ltd | Foundational Australian Moon-to-Mars Services | Zangold (trading as EPE), together with Lunar Outpost Oceania, has formed the project consortium of leading Australian industrial, academic, and scientific institutions to deliver the Foundation Services Demonstration planned for Australia’s first Lunar Rover. The project aims to deliver a cost-efficient, rapidly deployable, minimum-risk Rover solution leveraging Lunar Outpost’s high-TRL MAPP rover platform, which will already have visited the lunar south pole before the Trailblazer Preliminary Design Review. This cross-disciplinary teaming arrangement directly supports the Australian Space Agency’s goals of creating skilled jobs, increasing national space capability, forming key partnerships, and inspiring a future workforce. | $3,999,908 |