Company · Robotics
Melbourne startup and technical lead of the ELO2 Consortium developing the Roo-ver.
Melbourne, VIC
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Lunar Outpost Oceania raised.
Companies Lunar Outpost Oceania acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Kenrick | Technical Director | @AuManufacturing (6 Dec 2023), @AuManufacturing (22 Sep 2023) |
Stories naming Lunar Outpost Oceania. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
NASA confirmed the Australian-built Roo-ver will reach the Moon by 2030 under its Artemis program. The ELO2 consortium, technically led by Lunar Outpost Oceania of Melbourne, has $42 million in Australian Government backing.
Australian consortium ELO2 has shown its Moon rover prototype in Adelaide, competing to collect lunar soil for NASA, with support under the national space agency's Trailblazer program.
Consortium ELO2, co-led by EPE and Lunar Outpost Oceania, reveals a prototype rover that could become Australia's first Moon rover, developed under the Australian Space Agency's Trailblazer program for a possible NASA Artemis mission.
A weekly funding roundup covering Mindset Health's Series A, grants for two lunar rover consortiums, Pivot's raise, and Invest Inya Farmer's seed round.
Two Australian consortia, AROSE and one involving EPE and Lunar Outpost Oceania, each received a four million dollar grant under the Space Agency's Trailblazer programme to design lunar rover prototypes.