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Our News:
We’ve pivoted!
We’ve been very busy developing rover and lunar dust writing technology but we’ve listened to feedback from you and our potential investors! You want to do something faster, simpler, lower cost, and less risky but which still achieves the same ambitions.
MoonXcribe will now be focussing on writing your messages onto special metal scrolls and delivering them to the lunar surface as a ride-along with a planned lunar mission in just a few years. Messages will now cost from as little as $149 (US).
We are busy cementing arrangements with several investors on this new proposition and will bring you the message writing and sale platform to allow you to design your message and see it written onto the metallic scrolls (in a about week from ordering, though we are aiming for days). This will be available in 2025.
We hope this new pivot can become a spring-board to a future fleet of rovers able to write messages into the lunar dust as well as conducting science and surveying with many Earthly benefits. We’ll still be conducting research and development here but we’ll also be improving our understanding of demand and sentiment to this aspect of the project. If, and when, we get there any past $20 donations will still be honoured, or you can trade your token for the opportunity to purchase messages on metal scrolls (up to a 10 block option).
How does the new pivot work? We are working with a leading manufacturing institute to write messages using lasers onto thick metal foil (nominally Titanium) and which will be rolled into 12 metal scrolls contained in a housing on-board a small lunar package. Laser etching is an established process so we are simply fine tuning to provide the best options to you, including the optional ability to include art, drawings, and images with a degree of colour.
Donate soon to establish your position in the list. This mission will contain a maximum of 210,000 messages.
Previous News:
Our News Letter Issue 2 is out now and we have much to report. For donators and subscribers, please check your account page in the downloads area.
We have research projects underway with Cranfield University, which has the largest postgraduate space education programme in Europe and whose precision manufacturing capability was used on the James Webb Space Telescope!
We’ve worked with the University of Strathclyde on a ‘who are we?’ video and faced some fun questions, but also some tough questions, from a leader in space entrepreneurship! Here are some short interviews for now to find out a little more about us:
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