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Odyssey Moon offers "FedEx" style payload delivery services to the Moon.
Odyssey Moon will deliver payloads to the lunar surface and provide related communications and data management services.  Unlike dedicated single purpose missions where spacecraft are built to unique specifications, we offer customers a frequent mission schedule with a modular lander system featuring a common interface for power and communications.

Odyssey Moon employs an airline pricing model approach for its payload services. Prices are based on a common schedule driven by  factors such as weight, power, communications requirements,data management needs, and timing.
Odyssey Moon intends to launch the first Odyssey Moon mission (M-1) in December 2012. This lander will deliver payloads of approximately 50kg to an equatorial region of particular scientific and commercial interest, possibly close to Apollo landing sites (in collaboration with NASA), landing on a benign area.
Subsequent missions will follow to different destinations.  The Company also intends to develop an “Odyssey-2” class lunar lander with precision landing and hazard avoidance technologies to increase the range of operations and accessible destinations.
Payload proposals are invited from scientists, institutions and commercial enterprises worldwide. Odyssey Moon’s initial service offerings will include payload capacity, associated power, communications services and data management as well as payload insurance on a series of proprietary lunar landers it is developing.

Our Customers

Odyssey Moon and Paragon Space Development Corp. entered into a Letter of Intent on September 29, 2009 following a March 30, 2009 announcement to send a biological greenhouse called “Lunar Oasis” to the Moon. Paragon is a full-service aerospace engineering and technology development firm and a major supplier of environmental control and life support system and subsystem design for the aerospace industry. The goal is to grow the first plant on the Moon.

On September 15, 2009, the Company entered into a letter of intent with Luna Resort AB, a Swedish corporation. The project was developed by Mikael Genberg, a Swedish artist, who wants to place an inflatable traditional Swedish style cottage on the Moon. In addition to its artistic and symbolic value, the payload would contain technical and scientific research projects. The project has been supported industrially and financially by Swedish technology and space companies and private investors in Sweden.

ILOA is a Hawaii-based non-profit organization dedicated to expanding human astronomical knowledge through observatories stationed on the Moon. Space Age Publishing Company publishes Lunar Enterprise Daily and Space Calendar weekly. On July 24, 2009, the Company and ILOA executed a Memorandum of Understanding announcing a joint venture agreement for ILOA to send a scientific instrument to the Moon aboard M-1. ILOA placed a deposit to reserve capacity.

Odyssey Moon has a partnership with the International Space School Education Trust (ISSET) to put a British science instrument on the Moon. ISSET is a registered UK charity whose mission is the utilization of space exploration to increase student and teacher motivation. The Company signed a Letter of Intent and is negotiating contracts with ISSET for the purchase of capacity as well a broader relationship to market payloads to educational institutions.

On June 4, 2009, Odyssey Moon signed an amended Letter of Intent with the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) to fly a scientific instrument aboard M-1. TNO is an independent non-profit scientific research organization with 2008 consolidated turnover of €600 million. TNO had designed a miniaturized scientific instrument based on an instrument previously selected as part of the ESA ExoMars rover.

Celestis Inc. is an affiliate of Space Services Inc., a Houston-based aerospace company with a long history in private space missions. Celestis Inc. is a pioneer and leader in memorial spaceflight and has specialized in sending cremated remains into the Earth's orbit for over ten years. In August of 2008, Odyssey Moon and Celestis signed a Lunar Delivery Services Agreement setting forth the terms including, price, mechanics of delivery and payment.

About the Moon

Recent discovery of water on the Moon paves the way to explore our 8th Continent  - the size of the Americas, largely unexplored, full of resources & opportunity.

Launch Agreements

  • Odyssey Moon has established launch agreements with commercial customers and is recognized by NASA as a potential supplier of Commercial Missions of Opportunity for fundable payload delivery services to the Moon.
  • Odyssey Moon has also entered into discussions with other national space agencies worldwide for the provision of hardware and services on a commercial procurement basis.

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