How space is becoming a trillion dollar market place

(18 Jun 2025)
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Le Bourget, France – 17 June 2025

1. Various of the Mona Luna, a large lunar rover concept developed by Venturi Space for ESA
2. Various of solar panels on Mona Luna

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Le Bourget, France – 16 June 2025

3. Wide of unveiling ceremony for Mona Luna, a large lunar rover concept developed by Venturi Space for ESA
4. Tilt up of French astronaut Jean-François Clervoy talking at ceremony
5. Mona Luna being unveiled
6. Antonio Delfino, Director of Space Affairs, Venturi Space, talking at ceremony
7. Close of Venturi Space, ESA and CNES logos on lunar rover
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Delfino, Director of Space Affairs, Venturi Space:
"So the technologies associated to the rover are quite innovative, because nobody was interested in a massive rover. If we develop a lunar economy one day on the moon, you need mobility. It’s like it was the case in Europe, around the world, 100 years ago. Mobility is very important to transport goods, transport persons. So if you want really to exploit the moon, to mine the moon, because the moon is very important thing for humanity, it would be important to have mobility. This is why we are, and you see here, just massive rovers, not just small rovers."

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Le Bourget, France – 17 June 2025

9. Tilt down of Mona Luna
10. Various of flexible wheels
11. Low angle of rover
12. Close of wheel

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Le Bourget, France – 16 June 2025

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Delfino, Director of Space Affairs, Venturi Space:
"This rover has the possibility to climb slopes with 27 degrees of slopes. So you have to avoid the rover to be stuck on very loose soil. On the moon you have very loose soils. This is why the mobility is very, very important. And the rover we designed until now, they have not compliant wheels, they have rigid wheels. And these rigid wheels cannot climb very steep slopes."

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Le Bourget, France – 17 June 2025

14. Various of Mona Luna

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Le Bourget, France – 16 June 2025

15. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Delfino, Director of Space Affairs, Venturi Space:
"You can take much more risk. And this is the story of commercialisation. So the idea is to cut the cost also. This is the reason why having not public fund but private fund, you can push at the limit. So you can allow yourself to make more experiments and to sustain failures and go fast. And at the end of the day, you can achieve some commercialisation at low cost.”

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Le Bourget, France – 17 June 2025

16. Tilt down from rockets to Paris Space Hub at Paris Air Show
17. Close of ESA logo
18. Tilt down of ESA booth
19. Various of model of astronaut and lunar lander
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Dietmar Pilz, Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality, ESA:
"It is complex and it would be so much easier if there would be only one company that develops everything. But there are several reasons why this is not the case. Number one, not one single company has all the capabilities and all the technologies available that we need for the missions that we want to fly. Because we want to have state-of-the-art, the most relevant science missions, the most relevant Earth observation mission. Therefore, you need to combine the wisdom of many companies. That’s number one."

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Le Bourget, France – 18 June 2025

21. Tilt up of Space Cargo Unlimited display of capsule nicknamed the ‘Bento Box’, which can be used by a range of industries to conduct autonomous manufacturing in space
22. Various of the ‘Bento Box’
24. Close of display

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