Company
Technical University of Munich
Germany · Lunar instrument builder
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) provides the instrumented drill Volatiles Sampler for the Lunar Volatiles Scout on ESA's MAGPIE rover, which flies on ispace Mission 4 no earlier than 2029 to the lunar south pole.
Hardware
Rover Permittivity Sensor
PartMAGPIE Volatiles Sampler drill
Hardware · ispace Mission 4 polar landerJobs
Rover Permittivity Sensor for Rashid-3 by TUM
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) builds ESA's Rover Permittivity Sensor suite (RPS), a water ice sensor in one wheel of the Rashid-3 rover of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), and its first electronics unit passed tests at TUM and ESA's ESTEC centre before shipment to MBRSC later in 2026.MAGPIE Volatiles Sampler drill
Sources
- Esa and ispace europe mark official signing of europes first lunar polar ice exploration rover mission ispace
- Esa awards ispace europe contract for execution of magpie esas first lunar rover ispace
- ESA’s first lunar rover rolls forward ESA
- RPS: using a rover wheel in search of water on the Moon ESA, 14 October 2026
- Rover Permittivity Sensor Technical University of Munich
- Rover Permittivity Sensor suite testing ESA, 14 October 2026
- The Entrepreneurial University TUM
- Lunar wheel sensors tested at ESTEC ESA, 14 October 2026
- ESA reports successful tests of Rashid-3 sensor electronics NeoTeo, 14 October 2026
- Mission 4 ispace
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