This week, ELO2 Consortium beat out rival AROSE to win the right to create Australia’s upcoming lunar rover.

The rover is designed to collect regolith, or moon soil, that will eventually be turned into oxygen to support a permanent NASA base.

It’s arguably the biggest and most exciting project Australia’s space sector has ever been involved with, and will work in tandem with NASA’s Artemis mission to return humans to the lunar surface.

Here, host Adam Thorn interviews two of the key figures at ELO2 overseeing the project: Lunar Outpost’s Joseph Kenrick and EPE Oceania’s Ben Sorensen.