Astrobotic Technology sells data, delivers payloads, and performs services on the Moon for space agencies, foundation-backed researchers, and the media/marketing industries. The initial mission in April 2013 wins the Google Lunar X prize and returns to Apollo 11 to gather data about how it has weathered over the past four decades.
Subsequent missions to the poles will prospect for volatiles locked in subsurface ice; refueling spacecraft returning to Earth with local materials doubles their productivity.