Lightweight rover designed to explore polar regions of the Moon and drive into a Permanently Shadowed Region (PSR), believed to hold vast stores of water.
LUVMI-X is a small, autonomous lunar rover with big ambitions. Equipped with innovative instrumentation, it aims to search out water and other volatiles on the lunar surface, opening new horizons enabling a thriving lunar economy and opening new horizons for future human missions to the Moon and beyond.
On LUVMI-X one of the novel instruments is called VOILA, which is short for Volatiles Identification by Laser Ablation. This …
Introducing the Volatile Sampler and Volatile Analyser There is no atmosphere around the Moon which means that volatiles such as …
The LUVMI-X project has been featured in the Cordis Research*eu Magazine July 2021 edition. The article features an interview with …
Sometimes it is easier to understand what is happening by looking at a picture. This image gallery tells the story of LUVMI-X progress in pictures.
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