Moon Express

The Moon is Earths 8th continent; a new frontier for humanity with precious resources that can bring enormous benefits to life on Earth and our future in space. Expanding Earths economic and social sphere to the Moon is our first step in securing our future. Not long from now, a new generation will look up and see lights on the Moon, and know that they are part of a multi-world species.

Moon Express is working closely with the U.S. government to assure our freedom of enterprise in space with deference to international treaties.

The Space Resource and Utilization Act of 2015 was the first step in the process, recognizing U.S. private sector rights to seek, obtain and utilize space resources.

On July 20, 2016, Moon Express became the first company to receive U.S. government approval to send a robotic spacecraft beyond traditional Earth orbit and to the Moon. This was the first time in history that any government signatory to the Outer Space Treaty exercised its rights and obligations to formally authorize and supervise a commercial entity to fly a mission beyond Earth orbit. This historic ruling is a breakthrough U.S. policy decision supporting our commercial lunar exploration and discovery and heralding a new era of expanding space enterprise.

Our maiden Mission Approval establishes an important precedent for the private sector to engage in peaceful space exploration, bringing with it monumental implications for the advancement of technology, science, research, and development, as well as commercial ventures that expand Earths economic sphere.

On October 1, 2015, we announced a multi-mission launch contract with Rocket Lab USA for up to five launches starting in 2017. Moon Express is the first company in history to contract multiple launches for space exploration missions.

Our MX family of robotic explorers are configurable to a wide variety of available and emerging launch systems, all designed to collapse the cost of deep space access beyond Earth orbit.

MX-1E robotic explorer aboard the Rocket Lab USA Electron rocket

Moon Express occupies Launch Complexes 17 & 18 at Cape Canaveral, adjacent to the Kennedy Space Center on Floridas Space Coast, where many of the robots that explored new worlds and unlocked the secrets of our solar system began their journeys. We are now honored to be able to re-purpose these historic sites into a vibrant new commercial spaceport, ~70 acres of facilities and range, supporting Moon Express spacecraft development and test, and incubating fresh new dreams of extraordinary adventures into the space frontier.

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