INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
U.K.-based lunar rover startup Spacebit, a company developing robotic exploration hardware for use on the Moon, announced two new partners
that will help it develop and finalize its technology ahead of its target mission date of 2021
a mission to the lunar surface, and Spacebit CEO Pavlo Tanasyuk was joined by Dereum CEO Carlos Mariscal and EXA COO Ronnie Nader to talk
doing a swarm technology exploration plan, where we have multiple small spider walking rovers deployed from a wheeled mothership, along with
along with a couple of other private investors
He said that his company is fully funded through its first mission, a berth aboard the Peregrine Moon lander being launched by Astrobotic in
2021 (which itself has a price tag of $1.7 million he said)
