Fleet Space just announced it was awarded $2.65 million to take its moonquake-hunting probes to the lunar south pole.
"We are poised to be the first Australian technology to touch down on the surface of the moon, supporting humanity's efforts towards colonisation and aligning with NASA's Artemis program, with a future vision of Martian exploration supporting the hunt for life beyond our planet," Fleet Space CEO Matthew Pearson explained.
Once on the Moon, the SPIDER probes will record moonquakes continuously for the entire 14-day period. The development of Fleet Space's probes could benefit people on Earth. "We are explorers with a mission to revolutionize mineral exploration from Earth to the moon and Mars," the company wrote in its statement.
In 2025 or 2026, NASA aims to land humans on the lunar surface for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972. The US space agency is funding the development of several lunar robotic projects under its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. Fleet Space received its new funding from the Australian government's $40 million AUS "moon to Mars initiative", which is similar to NASA's CLPS. Fleet also recently raised $50 million AUS in a Series C fundraising round. It's also developing a satellite network, called ExoSphere, designed to scan for minerals in Earth orbit.Insight Lander mission
on Mars, for example, recently stopped functioning due to a thick layer of Martian dust on the lander's solar arrays. Before it stopped collecting data, though, it used a seismometer to shed new light on the planet's ancient core.
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