TeamIndus, also known as Axiom Research Labs, is a private Indian aerospace company based in Bangalore. It was formed to compete in the Google Lunar X Prize, aiming to land a rover on the Moon, though the competition concluded without a winner. The company provides expertise in space mission management, systems engineering, and lunar lander design. Although its initial lunar mission plans faced setbacks, TeamIndus continues to work on planetary exploration platforms.
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Team Hakuto had planned to fly Sorato on landers developed by Astrobotic and TeamIndus, but neither company launched before the Google Lunar X Prize competition ended in early 2018.
TeamIndus competed for the $20,000,000 Google Lunar X Prize to develop a private lunar lander that would travel at least 500 m across the lunar surface and return images and video.
TeamIndus has a partnership with BeyondOrbit, an Edison, New Jersey–based company that received $97,000,000 from NASA in May as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
TeamIndus is part of a team led by OrbitBeyond, and OrbitBeyond received a Commercial Lunar Payload Services award from NASA.