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In May 2023, Blue Origin was selected as a second provider for lunar lander services with a $3.4 billion contract. [44] [45] NASA stated that it decided to add another human landing system partner to: "increase competition, reduce costs to taxpayers, support a regular cadence of lunar landings, further invest in the lunar economy." [44]
The human lander, referred to as MK2, [2] was chosen by NASA as the winner of the Sustaining Lunar Development Human Landing System contract in May 2023. It is the second human lunar lander under contract by NASA for the Artemis HLS program, alongside Starship HLS . [ 11 ]
The Starship Human Landing System program includes the development and operational use of several Starship spacecraft variants by SpaceX, including the Starship HLS ship—optimized to operate on and in the vicinity of the Moon—as well as a Starship depot that will store propellant in Earth orbit, and the Starship tanker designed to fly multiple trips to orbit from Earth's surface to ...
“On to spring and trying again on the landing,” Limp wrote of Blue Origin’s plans for a second launch in just a few months. ... stage of the Starship to serve as the Human Landing System ...
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Blue Origin announced that its next human flight is scheduled to lift off on Friday, Nov. 22 from its Launch Site One, which is about 25 miles north of Van Horn. The ...
Now that Blue Origin's lawsuit against NASA is over, the agency can work with SpaceX to build its next human moon lander. But it will take a while.
The Integrated Lander Vehicle (ILV) was a human spaceflight lunar lander design concept proposed in 2020/21 for the NASA Human Landing System (HLS) component of the Artemis program. Blue Origin was the lead contractor for the multi-element lunar lander that was to include major components from several large US government space contractors ...
The Blue Origin led team called the "National Team" included, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Draper. On April 30, 2020, the company and its partners won a $579 million contract to start developing and testing an integrated Human Landing System (HLS) for the Artemis program to return humans to the Moon.