VOLT, a lunar power asset, is now on display at Moonshot Museum
Astrobotic’s VOLT, in collaboration with Redwire Space, unites a towering 60+ foot solar array with a minivan-sized lunar rover purpose-built to navigate the Moon. This advanced rover features a vertical solar array that captures solar energy while traversing the lunar surface. Designed for the challenging environment of the lunar south pole, VOLT will deliver critical power to lunar assets — including habitats, rovers, and scientific instruments — enabling sustained exploration and research.
With a test campaign (TVAC and SLOPE) complete, the VOLT engineering model, which was engineered, prototyped, and assembled at Astrobotic’s Pittsburgh, PA headquarters, is on display at the company’s 501c3 non-profit, Moonshot Museum. The museum, Pennsylvania’s first space museum and the first museum in the world to focus on career readiness for the space industry, will exhibit VOLT to museum guests and student field trips through early 2025.
VOLT is a key part of Astrobotic’s LunaGrid system, a solar-based power generation and distribution service to deliver power to landers, rovers, habitats, science suites, and other lunar surface systems. Expanding its lunar power infrastructure capabilities, Astrobotic is developing an Extra Large Vertical Solar Array Technology (VSAT-XL) for the Moon. At approximately 112-ft-tall and 40-ft-wide, VSAT-XL is the largest planned lunar power infrastructure technology designed to meet the growing energy demands on the lunar surface.