Moon Express has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to explore options for collaboration with the CSA and Canada’s space sector on technologies and payloads for missions to the Moon.
Under the agreement, the CSA and Moon Express will explore the possibilities of using Moon Express lunar orbiter and lander systems for potential CSA payloads and will promote possibilities for collaboration between Moon Express and the Canadian space industry and academia. The bilateral MOU was signed today at the International Astronautical Congress in Bremen, Germany, by CSA President Sylvain Laporte and Moon Express Founder and CEO Bob Richards.
Moon Express is a U.S. commercial space company founded in 2010 with the goal of providing low cost, frequent access to the Moon for science, exploration and commerce while seeking new resources to benefit Earth. Moon Express serves a global base of customers from its 72-acre Space Campus headquarters at Cape Canaveral with additional facilities at the NASA Kennedy Space Center.
“Moon Express is excited to support the Canadian Space Agency in a new era of lunar exploration,” said Canadian-born Bob Richards. “Successful collaborations between the CSA and private industry have put Canadian technology on the surface of Mars, and soon near asteroids. We look forward to working with the CSA to develop new opportunities for Canadian science and technology in the exploration of Earth’s eighth continent, the Moon, and its vast resources.”
The CSA is hosting Moon Express at its St. Hubert, Quebec Montreal Headquarters for Fall 2018 Industry Days, a three-day event, to promote Canadian space industry’s capabilities to Moon Express, as well as other major space companies.
Moon Express is partnered with NASA under its Lunar CATALYST Program and in 2016 became the first commercial space company to receive U.S. federal government authorization for a private lunar mission. Moon Express has developed a family of innovative robotic exploration spacecraft designed to collapse the cost of access to the Moon and other deep space destinations, with regular flights to the Moon planned to begin in 2020.
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ABOUT MOON EXPRESS
Moon Express, Inc. (@MoonEx) is a privately funded commercial space company developing a family of low-cost robotic spacecraft dedicated to collapsing the cost of lunar and deep space access for science, exploration and commerce. The long-term goal of Moon Express is to discover and unlock the resources of the Moon for the benefit of Earth and the evolution of humanity into a multi-world civilization.
Since its founding in 2010, the company has raised over $50M in private investment from venture funds and a wide range of individual investors from Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to celebrities.
Moon Express is partnered with NASA supporting the U.S. return to the Moon and serves a global base of customers from its 72-acre Space Campus at Cape Canaveral, located at former Launch Complexes 17 and 18.
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