Planetary Transportation Systems

"Part-Time Scientists" redirects here. Not to be confused with citizen scientist.

Planetary Transportation Systems GmbH
Company typePrivate
IndustryAerospace
Founded2009
FounderRobert Böhme
FateActive
Headquarters
Berlin
,
Germany
ProductsLunar lander
ServicesLunar transportation
Websitepts.space

Planetary Transportation Systems (PTS), formerly known as PTScientists and Part-Time Scientists, is a Berlin-based aerospace company. They developed the robotic lunar lander "ALINA" and seek to land on the Moon with it. They became the first German team to officially enter the Google Lunar X-Prize competition on June 24, 2009,[1] but failed to reach the finals in 2017 for lack of a launch contract.[2] During the summer of 2019, the company filed for bankruptcy, and the ALINA project was put on hold. In July 2021, PTS was selected with ArianeGroup to build ESA's ASTRIS kick-stage.[3]

  1. ^ "German Team Part-time-scientists Enters $30 Million Google Lunar X Prize Competition". SpaceRef. June 27, 2009. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference SN Jan 2019 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ admin-arianegroup. "ArianeGroup wins ESA's "ASTRIS" competition". ArianeGroup. Retrieved July 15, 2021.