'Break the Ice Winner' Tests Lunar Rover Tech in NASA Thermal Vacuum Chamber FriendsofNASA.org: One year after winning second place in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge, members of the small business, Starpath, visited NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of their prize opportunity to test their upgraded lunar regolith excavation and transportation rover in the center’s 20-foot thermal vacuum chamber. The technology startup headquartered in Hawthorne, California

Queensland researchers are working on navigation systems to keep Australia’s first lunar rover on track for when it lands on the Moon around the end of this decade. QUT experts are working to develop positioning systems that will help the rover to safely explore the lunar surface with limited onboard computing power. Roo-ver the rover will be designed, built, tested and operated in Australia and once launched, it will be remotely operated from an Australian mission control centre and work alongs