Moon Express continues testing of first commercial lunar lander

Posted on 6 Feb 2015 by Tim Brown

Moon Express, a privately funded commercial space company hoping to unlock the potential value in lunar resources is to continue flight tests at Kennedy Space Center.

The company is planning to test its newest lunar lander, the “MTV-1A” vehicle later this month. The new vehicle is an advanced version of the MTV-1X lander test vehicle that successfully completed a series of initial flights in December, earning the company a $1m award from the Google Lunar XPRIZE. The MTV-1A vehicle utilizes flight…

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