Odyssey Moon is planning to make history with the first
private mission to safely reach the surface of the Moon and win the Google
Lunar X PRIZE. Their inaugural mission will be a small robotic lander carrying
scientific and exploration payloads and is based on Odyssey Moon’s lunar lander
“MoonOne” (M-1) concept, which is under development. The challenge set out by
M-1 requirements is to determine the most reliable and lowest cost mission to
win the Google Lunar X PRIZE and provide proof that private enterprise can
reach the Moon. However the M-1 mission is not just about winning the Google Lunar
X PRIZE; M-1 has been under development for some time, and has been adapted
within the context of the Odyssey Moon business plan to match the Google Lunar
X PRIZE challenge and conditions. As the first in a serious of incremental
missions, M-1 will be also be a pathfinder mission with science and exploration
goals that support and enable the company’s successor missions.
Odyssey Moon will combine this experience with vision and
energy to introduce new approaches to lunar commerce with a goal of reducing
the cost of access to the Moon by an order of magnitude compared to government
programs.
