About
Venturi Space

In 2021, after two decades of innovation in the field of terrestrial electric vehicles, Gildo Pastor, President of Venturi, steered the Group towards the space industry. He set out a dual ambition: to collaborate with both NASA and the ESA.

The strategic shift towards the space sector is aligned with NASA’s Artemis programme, that will see humanity return to the Moon in 2030, after the US space agency invited bids from contractors to design, manufacture, and operate a lunar terrain vehicle for transporting astronauts and equipment.

In 2026, NASA selected the CLV-1 rover, designed by Sacha Lakic, from the American company Venturi Astrolab, Inc.

Its strategic partner, Venturi Space, is in charge of designing and manufacturing the wheels (in Switzerland), the batteries (in Monaco) and the battery management systems (in France).

Unveiled at the 75th International Astronautical Congress in Milan, the FLIP rover will land aboard Astrobotic’s lander at the lunar South Pole in late 2026.

Its mission is to test, under real conditions, the innovative technologies developed by Venturi Astrolab, Inc. and Venturi Space, paving the way for its larger counterpart, CLV-1, which is set for its first journey in 2028.

NASA announced that it has selected US-based company Venturi Astrolab, as one of two providers of a crewed lunar rover for the Artemis campaign, supporting the agency’s ambition to enable sustained surface mobility at the lunar South Pole.

The vehicle, named the Crewed Lunar Vehicle, or CLV-1, will incorporate critical technologies designed and manufactured by Venturi Space.

• 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.

From then on, collaboration with the ESA became one of Venturi Space’s ambitions. The stated objective is to offer an integrated service built around a rover, from design through to operations.

Mobility on the surface of other celestial bodies is already a major challenge for the coming decades. This is why Venturi Space is proposing the MONA LUNA rover to the ESA, ahead of schedule.

Venturi Space draws on the experience gained with FLIP and CLV-1 rovers, developed by its American strategic partner, Venturi Astrolab, for which it designed the wheels and batteries.