PTScientists, now known as Planetary Transportation Systems (PTS), is a Berlin-based aerospace company focused on lunar transportation services. They are known for developing the "ALINA" lunar lander and had plans to land on the Moon, initially aiming to explore the Apollo 17 landing site. PTS collaborates with organizations like ESA and ArianeGroup, and aims to lower the costs of space exploration. Key products and services include lunar landers, rovers (like the Audi lunar quattro), payload delivery, and consulting.
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PTScientists planned a lander called Alina with a planned launch in 2020 or 2021.
The European Space Agency awarded the lunar lander study to a team that included PTScientists and ArianeGroup in January.
PTScientists was a competitor in the Google Lunar X Prize, which offered a $20,000,000 grand prize for the first privately developed lunar lander.
PTScientists was acquired by an unidentified aerospace company in a deal effective 2019-09-01.
PTScientists had been working on lunar lander concepts, including a study for the European Space Agency of a mission to send a lander to the moon to perform experiments for in-situ resource utilization.
PTScientists traces its heritage to a team that competed for the Google Lunar X Prize, which offered a $20,000,000 grand prize.
PTScientists continued development of a lunar lander after competing in the Google Lunar X Prize and initially hoped to launch in late 2019 or 2020.
ArianeGroup and PTScientists received a contract from ESA on 2019-01-21 to study a proposed lander mission to mine lunar regolith and demonstrate resource extraction viability.
PTScientists began as a team in the Google Lunar X Prize competition and continued developing a lunar lander after the competition ended in early 2018.
The European Space Agency awarded a one-year study contract to a consortium that includes ArianeGroup and PTScientists to study a lunar lander mission concept to mine lunar regolith.
PTScientists and Team Indus, two former competitors in the Google Lunar X Prize, are pursuing commercial lunar landers that could launch as soon as late 2019.
PTScientists is a Germany-based company preparing for its first lunar lander mission scheduled to launch in late 2019.
PTScientists plans a later mission in cooperation with the European Space Agency in the 2020s to test the ability to access and use water ice resources at the lunar poles.