Created: 2018-11-22
Updated: 2025-09-06
Company - PTS (Planetary Transportation Systems)
Product/Service - ALINA
- Classification
- Cargo Transportation & Landers
- Category
- Transport Service (LEO-Moon)
Commercial Lunar Lander
- Fields
- Moon
- Status
- Dormant
- First launch
- Not announced
We aim to develop in-space infrastructure and conduct our own commercial space exploration missions.
Meet ALINA – the Autonomous Landing and Navigation Module
- ALINA is designed to be compatible with all major commercial launch vehicles (including SpaceX’s Falcon 9, and ISRO’s PSLV), allowing invaluable flexibility when contracting a launch. This means that customers can choose their launch vehicle based on price and availability, rather than being restricted by type.
- Once inserted into an Earth-orbit, ALINA will use its own propulsion to transport the craft 380,000 km to the Moon, and into lunar orbit. Payload racks on either side of the ALINA vehicle can be used to house orbital payload (if a lunar landing is not required), and ALINA can also dispatch CubeSats into lunar orbit.
- From lunar orbit, ALINA will perform an accurate soft-landing on the Moon at a designated landing site. With each flight, ALINA can deliver up to 100 kg to the surface of the Moon. For Mission to the Moon this includes carrying two Audi lunar quattro rovers.
Status Comment
Competed in Google Lunar X-Prize but failed to reach the finals.
Since 2020, focus seems to be more on lunar test environment, engineering services than finishing the development of Moon lander and rover.
Website is offline as of September 2025.
Notes
Started as Part-Time Scientists after which renamed to PTScientists. After near bankruptcy in 2019, it was renamed to PTS (Planetary Transportat Systems).
Product/Service - Audi Quattro Lunar Rover
- Classification
- Surface Spacecraft
- Category
- Commercial Lunar Lander
Commercial Rover
- Fields
- Moon
Lunar Rover
- Status
- Dormant, Concept
- First launch
- Not announced
Moon Rover
Meet the Audi lunar quattro. Equipped with a four-wheel electrical drive chain, tilt-able solar panels, rechargeable batteries and science-grade high definition cameras, the PTS exploration rover are able to deploy and operate a series of scientific and technological payloads on the Moon.
- Featuring active suspension and four-wheel drive, this lightweight, sturdy vehicle has been designed to withstand the harsh environment of space and navigate the lunar surface. It has a mass of just 30 kg, with capacity to carry 5 kg of additional payload. The low mass has been achieved using state-of-the-art metal 3D printing techniques.
- The PTS exploration rovers will be controlled from Earth using a joystick in real-time. 3D-depth information from the stereoscopic cameras will be used to assist the rover operators. It can also communicate with our lunar lander (ALINA) using LTE mobile data communications.
- We are currently at the fourth generation rover architecture, with ten years of design and development work, from PTS and with support by the German Space Agency – DLR.
Status Comment
As of August 2025, website seems offline as LinkedIn does not show employees anymore.
Competed in Google Lunar X-Prize but failed to reach the finals.
Since 2020, focus seems to be more on lunar test environment, engineering services than finishing the development of Moon lander and rover.
Notes
Started as Part-Time Scientists after which renamed to PTScientists. After near bankruptcy in 2019, it was renamed to PTS (Planetary Transportat Systems).
Created: 2023-02-18
Updated: 2025-09-06
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