New Extraterrestrial business idea: A US-based company wants to lure customers by offering to deliver small packages to the moon. The end of 2017 to the first delivery of private programs held for the Earth’s satellite and make the remembrance contained thus “immortal”.
Currently experiencing the private space in the US a real wedding. Besides the well known industry representatives SpaceX, which it has been possible to land a rocket on land and on a drone ship in the ocean, but still want to earn other companies in this boom. US start-up Astrobotic hopes to cash with the idea of moon post, in order to finance the actual mission.
The bigger the package the higher the price
Under the heading Moon mail and with the motto “do your souvenir on the moon immortal “the company advertises currently on its homepage to private customers who are interested in a package delivery to the lunar surface. As usual with the space, the potential size of the Moon delivery, however, remains relatively limited. “Astrobotic now accepts small souvenirs, which are received at our first mission to the moon,” the company said. “This memory will be stored for centuries there.”
In the first step, interested customers have to choose one of three basic capsules, so to speak, serve as packet size for souvenirs. The service fee for the smallest container with dimensions of 1.3 cm to 0.3 cm is 460 dollars. Those who book the widest possible moon package with dimensions of 2.5 cm to 5 cm, have to pay $ 25,800. After the capsule was then sent to Astrobotic, this promise in the next step with a “high-resolution photo” to document exactly when in the is used according to lunar vehicle, with the total private space programs are to be placed on the lunar surface.
Astrobotic wants the Moon mail finance part of its actual main mission, which is the first private company to carry out a commercial moon landing. So he can do the moon for “scientists, researchers and other pioneers” accessible again.