Lunar Numbat

Thanks to the fine work of Artist Gavin Jacobi, Lunar Numbat now has an official patch to represent us.

While the arrangement and execution of this patch pays honour to a previous historic lunar mission, it's unmistakeably fresh with New Zealand and Australia faithful represented.

Prominent in the centre is our intrepid Numbat mascot, poised both as having just arrived, and ready to boldly explore.

Faithful to the values of the Lunar Numbat endeavour, Gavin Jacobi has released the image under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike.

The master image in SVG format is available on the mail list.

Alan Kay said "the best way to predict the future is to invent it", which is precisely what White Label Space is doing.

The Google Lunar X-Prize inspired the formation of White Label Space, a group that includes talented space engineers, scientists and technologists from within and outside of the traditional space industry.

What sets White Label Space apart is their vision of low cost ambitious Space Science missions enabled by innovative use of contemporary technologies which are now significantly more accessible, flexible and affordable.

This combined with the innovation of their missions as a vehicle also for marketing, so that sponsors with the "right stuff" can create a profound and enduring legacy by becoming the first private companies to land on the moon.

Lunar Numbat is proud to work with White Label Space, providing them with some of the technologies needed to make this Google Lunar X-Prize mission not only successful, but a precedent that can be followed. First stop, the Moon.

White Label Space are a genuinely International team with people from many nationalities, including Australians. They're geographically based in Europe.

While the Lunar Numbat Blog has a short RSS feed from White Label Space, you can follow their developments directly from their Blog, Twitter feed and Facebook group.

Andy Gelme and Jon Oxer of the Lunar Numbat build team have been preparing a modest avionics package to go into a class G hobby rocket for some high velocity fun and testing.

The rocket to be used for the launches has already made a name for itself due to some stunning video taken with it's onboard inflight video camera, linked via a 2.4GHz Microwave signal.

The Lunar Numbat Build team are keen to get our avionics under development into launch vehicles, so as to test our work and improve on it.

We're looking forward to the test results and video footage of course!