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Venturi Space
Lunar mobility by Venturi Space: excellence times infinity.
2021
Powered
by innovation
After two decades of innovation in terrestrial electric vehicles, Venturi’s President Gildo Pastor has repositioned the firm in the space sector, aiming to forge new collaborations with both NASA and the ESA.
The change of strategy ties in with NASA’s Artemis programme that will see humanity return to the Moon in 2029, after the US space agency invited bids from contractors to design, manufacture, and operate a lunar terrain vehicle for transporting astronauts and equipment.
2024
Exploring the Moon
In 2024, NASA pre-selected a rover from the American company Venturi Astrolab, Inc. Its strategic partner, Venturi Space, is in charge of designing and manufacturing the batteries (in Monaco) and the wheels (in Switzerland).
2024
Venturi Space and Venturi Astrolab introduce lunar rover to address growing demand to deliver small payloads to the Moon
October 15, 2024 – Venturi Space, which invents, studies, designs and manufactures mobility solutions capable of handling the extreme environmental conditions found on the Moon and Mars, and Venturi Astrolab, Inc. (Astrolab), the designer, manufacturer, and operator of multi-purpose rovers for the Moon and Mars, announced their collaboration to produce a lunar rover, designed to respond to the growing number of institutional, businesses and scientific organizations in the U.S. and European markets, that are seeking access to the Moon for smaller payloads. A development prototype of the rover was unveiled today in Venturi Space’s exhibition booth at the 75th International Astronautical Congress.
2026
SpaceX first, then NASA
The astromobile will be transported to the lunar South Pole by SpaceX in 2026, while NASA’s selection process for the LTV contract is still ongoing. Controlled remotely from Earth, it will conduct scientific experiments and commercial activities.
In the meantime, NASA may select our vehicle. Consequently, from 2030 onwards, most of the rover’s operational time would be devoted to missions for the US space agency. Outside these missions, the rover would carry on its activities for private purposes.
2030 : ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC
The European Space Agency (ESA) has three stated objectives:
- To establish a long-term European presence in low Earth orbit.
- To send the first European astronauts to explore the Moon’s surface by 2030.
- To take part in the first crewed mission to Mars.
Venturi Space wants to help the ESA achieve those objectives, by providing a comprehensive LTV service that includes everything from designing to operating the vehicle.
Mobility on the surface of other celestial bodies is already one of the big challenges for the coming decades. To get ahead of the curve, Venturi Space has already approached the ESA.
Its project builds on real-world experience acquired with the rover created by the company’s strategic US partner Venturi Astrolab, Inc. for which it designed the wheels and batteries.
