WINNERS – 2024 MVA Moon Market Annual Award

The 2024 MVA Moon Market Annual Awards were presented during the 8th Global Moon Village Workshop & Symposium. In a special ceremony, MVA President Dr. Giuseppe Reibaldi personally awarded diplomas to three of the winners in attendance. Winners unable to attend received their awards electronically, ensuring all honorees were recognized for their achievements.

Special Award for Lunar Infrastructure:

Canada: Madison Feehan / CEO & President / Space Copy

In-Situ Logistics and Additive Manufacturing Technology For Infrastructure Development In Extreme Environments on Earth and Space

Award category: Special Award for Lunar Infrastructure
Lunar market(s): ISRU, manufacturing, data
Highlights: The company/project is recognized for outstanding PR and marketing outreach with solutions for both lunar and terrestrial markets.

Germany: Frank Koch / Founder & CEO / Orbit Recycling + #TheMoon (Rostock)

Recycling of orbital debris for Moon infrastructure construction + #TheMoon lunar analogue facility

Award category: Special Award for Lunar Infrastructure
Lunar market(s): ISRU, manufacturing, services
Highlights: The company/project is recognized for its unique combination of timely lunar mission support and long-term recycling solutions.

Singapore: François Dubrulle / Founder & CEO / Qosmosys

Lunar infrastructure services platform

Award category: Special Award for Lunar Infrastructure
Lunar market(s): Transportation, ISRU, services
Highlights: The company/project is recognized for its uniquely competitive commercial, financial, and industrial partnership model.

Special Award for Lunar Sustainability:

Egypt: Samer El-Sayari / Assistant Professor / Alexandria University

Series of 5 lunar architecture projects: Iris & Oasis, Lunar Reefs Colony, Lunarium, Poseidon, Chimera Stonehenge

Award category: Special Award for Lunar Sustainability:
Lunar market(s): Habitat, infrastructures, services
Highlights: The company/project is recognized for unique entrepreneurial creativity in developing sustainable lunar habitat and infrastructure solutions.

Japan: Alejandro Sela / Co-Founder & CEO / JAOPS

Lunar mission control YAMCS and SIM lunar surface simulator for Moon rovers

Award category: Special Award for Lunar Sustainability:
Lunar market(s): Services, mission support, transportation
Highlights: The company/project is recognized for providing a uniquely competitive mission support service conducive to sustainable lunar activities.

USA: Colin Lennox / SME for waste water treatment / ArcologyX

Habitat components and waste water treatment systems for terrestrial and lunar sustainability

Award category: Special Award for Lunar Sustainability:
Lunar market(s): ISRU/mining, habitat, services
Highlights: The company/project is recognized for habitat and waste water treatment systems uniquely relevant to Earth and Moon sustainability.

Special Award for Lunar Game Changers:

Greece: Charalampos (Charis) Kosmas / Founder & CEO / Lunar Cargo P.C.

Affordable Lunar Landing system M.A.C.E.D.O.N.A.S

Award category Special Award for Lunar Game Changers
Lunar market(s): Transportation, lunar logistics services
Highlights: The company/project is recognized as a game changer with a cost-cutting lunar inbound/outbound mobility solution that doesn’t generate ejecta. Strong international outreach and exponential growth potential.

Ukraine: Tetiana Golub / PhD, Senior Researcher / Iron and Steel Institute of Z.I. Nekrasov of NASU

Development of the concept of thermal dissociation of oxide compounds under the influence of an electric field to produce gaseous oxygen in relation to lunar conditions

Award category Special Award for Lunar Game Changers
Lunar market(s): ISRU/mining, propellants, life support, manufacturing Highlights: The company/project is recognized as a game changer with a cost-cutting ultrasound-based solution for lunar volatiles extraction. Strong international outreach and exponential growth potential.

Ukraine: Oleksii Derkach / Department Chair / Dnipro State Agrarian and Economic University

Development of materials for machines that will extract water on the Moon

Award category Special Award for Lunar Game Changers
Lunar market(s) ISRU/mining, propellants, life support, manufacturing
Highlights: The company/project is recognized as a game changer with a cost-cutting solution for lunar water extraction and terrestrial use-cases. Strong international outreach and exponential growth potential.