Team Puli Space is proud to annouce that S&T Consulting Hungary Ltd became our first Gold Sponsor. The company will support the Puli project as its exclusive CAD/CAM partner by providing software for planning, modelling and simulating various aspects of the lunar mission. The support package contains software licences, training programs and consulting services for a total value of several ten million HUF (~ several hundred thousand USD) in the next 3 years.

A mission to send a rover to the Moon is rocket science. No organization is capable of planning and completing such a complex project without state of the art IT support. In accordance with this, programmers and engineers at team Puli Space now have the opportunity to design the rover, plan its functions and simulate its operation with the newest generation software tools of PTC, one of the leading CAD/CAM providers of the world.

After a series of negotiations, S&T Consulting Hungary has offered to provide licences and support for the newest engineering software package of PTC. The Creo system provides state of the art tools for a wide array of tasks ranging from planning inidvidual rover parts to visualizing complex systems or modelling their behaviour under various circumstances.

„We are excited that a Hungarian team is also part of this thrilling competition. S&T is committed to promoting innovation so it was a natural decision on our side to support Team Puli. PTC started shipping Creo, its new CAD/CAM/CAE system in June 2011, which holds the legacy of the previous Pro/ENGINEER, CoCreate and ProductView programs, but also contains a series of brand new technologies. In the course of such a project, various ideas and plan versions have to be tested to reach optimal results. By combining the best aspects of parametric and direct modelling, Creo helps to set creative energies free. For these reasons we think that Team Puli will be the best possible candidate to promote our new program suite” – said Kálmán Kelemen, S&T Hungary's CEO.

Kálmán Kelemen (left), CEO of S&T Hungary and Tibor Pacher, Team Leader of Puli Space sign Team Puli's first Golden Sponsor Agreement

„S&T’s support is of enormous importance to us for two reasons. First, the offered engineering softwares are crucial for planning purposes and second, its value raises the trustworthiness of the team and its mission in the eyes of future investors” – added Tibor Pacher, Puli's team leader.

Selected members of Team Puli have already started their training with the new program suite, with their work being integrated into the currently running Iteration 2 phase of the Puli Space mission.