Last month, the first LUVMI Volatiles sampler test campaign was completed. Its purpose was to demonstrate the extraction of volatiles under representative circumstances (similar to the harsh environment of the Moon). The results were encouraging. Now that this first attempt has been successful, we’ll conduct a more extensive test campaign next. Heater prototypes for the Volatiles Sampler being tested in a Thermal vacuum chamber. The heater consists of a resistive heating coi

Members of the LUVMI team participated in ESA's Lunar Exploration Industry Days last week (18-19 Sept) at ESTEC. The event brought together people from space industry and academia to view and discuss the planned lunar exploration strategy of ESA, and its main elements. Simeon Barber (The Open University) and Diego Urbina (Space Applications) both presented on the second day. During their talks they included LUVMI as an example of their involvement in exploration technology a