In April 2024, NASA selected three finalists to design, build and market its own Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) for the Artemis program within 12 months. Since then, intuitive machines, Venturia Strolab and Moon’s pre-post base have been competing to meet the impending deadline to provide the best possible Moon Car Plan.
Post base before the moon The moon dawn team On April 8th, they unveiled their latest high-fidelity prototype, The Lunar Outpost Eagle. The vehicle will officially debut Space Symposium 2025 Colorado Springs offers the closest appearance to participants. Eagle is the fourth prototype iteration to date, and was built in collaborations from Genear, Goodyear, MDA Space, General Motors of Leidos and Leidos. According to AJ GemerPost base CTO in front of the moon.
The current version of Eagle features a reconfigurable cargo compartment and a robotic arm to assist with the payload. The final design of the LTV is also intended to support advanced onboard instrumentation for various experiments, while maintaining a high-bandwidth communication relay.
The Moon Post Base will not only ensure that LTV will withstand the lustful two-week long moon nights of the moon, but also ensure that surface temperatures continue to operate at a drop of -280 degrees Fahrenheit. These and other safeguards are important to ensure that LTV remains functional for years beyond the original mission.
Since NASA awarded the feasibility task order to the company, not all have been doing smooth sailing for the Moon Post base. Last February, a small four-wheel rover built by the company got caught up in riding the intuitive machine Odysseus Lunar Lander mission. “Odie” became the first commercial spacecraft to succeed on the moon on March 6th, and did, but it did. As a result, the scale test rover from Lunar Outspost could not be deployed to test Nokia’s first similar moon cellular network. Nevertheless, the engineers were still able to maintain communication links with the Rover for over 200 hours, meeting the monthly technical preparation level (TRL 9) requirements for the Key Rover subsystem.
Following the premiere of Eagle at the Space Symposium, Lunar Outpost’s LTV will begin a preliminary design review process to ensure that all NASA requirements are met before providing Asmigted Pitch to the agency. NASA plans to announce the winning LTV bid by the end of this year. If everything goes according to the plan (certainly a big “if”), then Eagle Lander from Lunar Outspost could be part of the Artemis v Mission, which is currently scheduled for 2030.
