Quattro to the moon!
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Quattro to the moon!
<http://www.automobilemag.com/news/audi-lunar-quattro-rover/>
The German automaker has teamed up with Berlin-based engineering company Part-Time Scientists (PTS) to send two Lunar Quattro rovers to the moon in 2018. The mission’s goal is to return to the Apollo 17 landing site in the Taurus-Littrow Valley to see what shape the abandoned LRV is in.
“This mission is a great challenge. And to solve this challenge, the most important technical competencies of Audi are needed: lightweight design, electrification, and digit-alization,” says Alexander Schmidt, one of Audi AG’s lead development engineers for the effort. “There is no repair shop that the rover can drive into for a service, so it needs to work without a hitch throughout the whole mission.” PTS first launched the project about eight years ago in an effort to chase down Google’s Lunar XPrize, which offers $20 million to $30 million to the first privately funded team to operate a lunar rover on the moon. But when Audi became a sponsor and engineering partner in 2015, priorities shifted and the prize money was no longer the impetus.
The German automaker has teamed up with Berlin-based engineering company Part-Time Scientists (PTS) to send two Lunar Quattro rovers to the moon in 2018. The mission’s goal is to return to the Apollo 17 landing site in the Taurus-Littrow Valley to see what shape the abandoned LRV is in.
“This mission is a great challenge. And to solve this challenge, the most important technical competencies of Audi are needed: lightweight design, electrification, and digit-alization,” says Alexander Schmidt, one of Audi AG’s lead development engineers for the effort. “There is no repair shop that the rover can drive into for a service, so it needs to work without a hitch throughout the whole mission.” PTS first launched the project about eight years ago in an effort to chase down Google’s Lunar XPrize, which offers $20 million to $30 million to the first privately funded team to operate a lunar rover on the moon. But when Audi became a sponsor and engineering partner in 2015, priorities shifted and the prize money was no longer the impetus.
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That is so cool..
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“This mission is a great challenge. And to solve this challenge, the most important technical competencies of Audi are needed: lightweight design, electrification, and digit-alization,” says Alexander Schmidt, one of Audi AG’s lead development engineers for the effort. “There is no repair shop that the rover can drive into for a service, so it needs to work without a hitch throughout the whole mission.” PTS first launched the project about eight years ago in an effort to chase down Google’s Lunar XPrize, which offers $20 million to $30 million to the first privately funded team to operate a lunar rover on the moon. But when Audi became a sponsor and engineering partner in 2015, priorities shifted and the prize money was no longer the impetus.[/color]
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