Mission budget is around $100 million (including launch costs).
Which is modest for moon landing attempts, but still well outside of a one-shot fully privately funded initiative.
Perhaps still a possibility of being crowdsourced.
Google Lunar X prize was $20 million, which is more realistic for a private program.
Still, this is a _great_ leap forward. Now, students routinely design and launch satellites (around $50k for a CubeSat launch); I hope that someday the same will go for lunar probes.
Which is modest for moon landing attempts, but still well outside of a one-shot fully privately funded initiative.
Perhaps still a possibility of being crowdsourced.
Google Lunar X prize was $20 million, which is more realistic for a private program.
Still, this is a _great_ leap forward. Now, students routinely design and launch satellites (around $50k for a CubeSat launch); I hope that someday the same will go for lunar probes.