Binar Prospector Spacecraft

Binar Prospector will perform high resolution magnetometry of the Moon over targets of interest, to identify economically viable resources.

Binar Prospector will be a Western Australian lunar resource prospecting mission. The principal payload is a magnetometer designed to identify localised accessible volatile deposits and mineralization. Binar Prospector will have a novel mission architecture, with a propulsion system and fuel payload dedicated to maintaining extremely low altitude orbits.

• Make Australia NASA’s principal partner in in-situ resource utilisation at the Moon (ISRU), supporting a critical element of NASA’s Artemis program.
• Continue to grow relationships with overseas agencies. Nothing succeeds like a joint mission, with NASA providing the launch, and JPL delivering comms and payload, and payload integration; joint operations with ESA providing mission control.
• Continue to deliver value for Australian industry partners (Fugro assisting and trialling remote asset management at the Moon; Sitael assisting with propulsion integration and providing project management).
• Demonstrate an interplanetary-class cubesat that can stand as a default vehicle for future Australian missions.