News

01/23/23

MoonAixperts reach phase 2

We are pleased to announce that our team has reached phase two of this year's Over The Dusty Moon Challenge. Production starts now so that nothing can go wrong in the final on site in Denver.

01/10/23

Visit to the German Aerospace Centre

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It was a great honor for us to give a presentation about our project and our team at DLR in Cologne. The subsequent tour in the DLR and ESA facilities were an unforgettable experience. Many thanks to Matthias Sperl and his team for this great opportunity!

10/1/22

Onto the next round!

What do you do after building something incredible? You do it again!

After some changes in our team, we are planing on participating in the next "Over the dusty Moon Challenge" !

06/03/22

Final in Denver, Co

We are thrilled to announce that we have successfully participated in the Over The Dusty Moon Challenge. In particular, we are pleased to receive the award for the most innovative system. We would like to express our deepest gratitude to everyone who supported us and especially to Colorado School of Mines both for organizing the competition and for the great support they gave us!

System shipped with DHL

05/24/22

From Aachen to the US

After long hours of production we handed over our system to our partner DHL, who will ship the system regONE to the Finale in Denver, Colorado.

We would like to thank DHL and Gmöhling for their support of our team!

We are excited to announce that the testing of our first prototype started today! Many thanks to the Institute of Electrical Machines (IEM) of RWTH Aachen University for providing us a test bench and two electrical motors. Keeping with that theme we would like to thank RWTHs Institute of Institute for Advanced Mining Technologies (AMT), which manufactured several parts of our prototype and provided Lunar Highlands Simulant (LHS).

05/09/22

Meeting with minister Andreas Pinkwart

Today we had the chance to present our project and some already finished parts to Mr. Andreas Pinkwart the minister of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. We were also pleased to welcome the chancellor of RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY Mr. Nettekoven and former rector of our university Mr. Schmachtenberg.

05/24/22

New team members & start of production

After testing an we were in a hurry to build our system since we had a hard deadline with the finale. Therefore we extended our team by three people - welcome Karen, Kjeld and Malte!

Last but not least we would love to thank RWTHs Institute SLA for providing us their lab for the production!

02/23/22

We are excited to announce that the testing of our first prototype started today!Many thanks to the Institute of Electrical Machines (IEM) of RWTH Aachen University for providing us a test bench and two electrical motors. Keeping with that theme we would like to thank RWTHs Institute of Institute for Advanced Mining Technologies (AMT), which manufactured several parts of our prototype and provided Lunar Highlands Simulant (LHS).

Testing has started

11/29/21

Submission Completed

10/01/21

The start of something big

This is our team for participation in the 2021 Over The Dusty Moon Challenge. We look forward to the exciting challenges ahead!

09/22

Colorado School of Mines announces staging of Over The Dusty Moon Challenge

Our team of 6 RWTH students came together in October after RWTH's SLA and AMT nudged us toward this project.

After doing a lot of research and direct interchange with leading researchers like Hiroyuki Kawamoto from Waseda University we had a promising vision of our concept to be. Only a few weeks were left, and a lot of work had to be done. Time was a resource. The next weeks were dominated by further research, complex calculations, and long nights of designing. The payoff is a concept we can proudly present and that is supported by all our means.