The diabolical problems of the Moon which Australian universities have to overcome by 2026

And Australia’s proposed lunar rovers need it to mine the Moon’s airless, radiation-blasted surface. The ASA’s Trailblazer project wants to have rovers mining and transporting water and oxygen from lunar regolith by 2026. And we already have vehicles that are at least partially automated in such conditions.”But the challenges of giving lunar rovers “eyes” is only the beginning. “Wheel slippage will be a thing on the Moon,” Chin says. “Autonomous systems currently are very far from that.”A lunar mining rover won’t have to interpret a traffic cop’s hand signals.